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Doctor facing life in prison for thousands of opioid doses
By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel Smithers had prescribed about a half a million doses of highly addictive opioids in two years. Interested in Opioid Epidemic? Patients from five states drove hundreds of miles to see him, spending up to 16 hours […]