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Nassau MD charged with murder for overprescribing opioids By: Adina Genn March 4, 2021 Comments Off on Nassau MD charged with murder for overprescribing opioids
A Nassau County doctor has been charged with five counts of murder for what the district attorney’s office is calling “prescribing abuses” of “massive quantities of opioids and other drugs.”
Now, Dr. George Blatti faces not only charges of five counts but also 11 counts of reckless endangerment.
Due back in court on March 30, Blatti, if convicted of the top charge faces a maximum of 25 years to life in prison. He was held without bail.
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A Long Island doctor is facing murder charges after five patients allegedly died between 2016 and 2018 due to prescriptions he wrote. George Blatti, 75, was.