Doctor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Insys Opioid Kickbacks

Post by mattnewton » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 1:43 AM UTC

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That just means we should treat low level criminals humanely. Four years is plenty. The thing where decade plus sentences are fairly common is unique in the first world: only in America. It’s barbaric and embarrassing. The science is pretty unambiguous—a high likelihood of being caught and punished is a better deterrent than a low-probability but larger punishment. So I don’t want to see this doctor get a 40-year sen…

Street dealers, "low level" or not, do actually kill their clients. Prison sentences for dealing hard drugs should be in line with prison sentences for murder, otherwise the implication is that the lives of drug users are much less valuable than the lives of regular people.

Post by jacquesm » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

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> When the money stops coming in, guess what happens? You drop to the status of a boring working person who never took kickbacks to sell opiates? A fate worse than death, I guess. The street dealer is also not likely to get 4 years. That's the point - 40 years was a number picked to illustrate a sentencing discrepancy argument. The fact that a 10x factor seems almost reasonable is the argument. > a street dealer does…

Crikey! If I'd been caught with everything that went through my hands as a small scale dealer I'd be screwed. Over ten years it certainly adds up! Kilograms of methamphetamine, thousands of ecstasy tables, tens of thousands of LSD tabs, a few hundred grams of pharmaceutical grade heroin. Yeah, they don't look favourable upon those sorts of quantities. Fortunately I only got caught with about five days worth of mercha…

Post by dmoy » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 1:58 AM UTC

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If he saved enough, ha. You'd be surprised at how many doctors making $300k+/yr have less than a couple years' worth of expenses saved up :/

any source for that claim?

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

dmoy wrote: post #56

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The longer he’s in prison, he’ll be closer to full retirement age, meaning he’ll collect a higher social security benefit (62 is the bare minimum, waiting until 70 gives you the highest monthly amount). He’s essentially already retired now.

True, I merely mean that he may be used to a much higher annual expense than he'll be able to afford in retirement. Which is fine, he ain't gonna starve if he worked that long as a doctor.

Post by sitkack » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 2:09 AM UTC

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If I were Trump, I would make a penal colony on one of our pacific atolls and then drone strike him, that would align with existing executive power. Didn't we declare a "War on Drugs", so that would make drug dealers enemy combatants and subject to tribunals and gitmo. I should have been Alito.

This attitude toward justice is exactly why you're not Alito.