Oxy-prescribing doctor, 'The Pill Mill Killer,' documented in new book | Vargas Reports

A 77-year-old southern Ohio doctor, Paul Volkman, is doing four consecutive life sentences. That’s the longest prison sentence ever given to someone for prescribing opioids. Journalist and author Philip Eil joins NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” to talk about the doctor and his victims, in his new book “Prescription for pain: How a once promising doctor became the pill mill killer.”
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[@rncine]

Now patients are suffering for those that truly need pain medications! I had a patient that had colon cancer that was having a 6 hr surgery on her colon. She was released with a prescription of 5 mg of Oxycodone. Even a vet gives an animal more for their pain. My patient died a year later and the hospital was in Ann Arbor, Mi. I am sick of seeing patients that truly need pain medications in order to live but are denied because of the ones that are selling them for amusement and a lucrative selling business😡

[@mollyram2997]

yup! ppl are killing themselves from pain. Let's focus on that & the real epidemic of alcohol which killed 1 in 8 Americans between 2019-2021. That is INSANITY.. yet no one can get their pain treated anymore bc of a few bad apples.... propaganda

[@NorthernSouthside]

😂she said what human being needs 270 oxycodone and 270 percocets in one visit 😂😂😂😂

[@shannonrusso3853]

@Northern She didn't say anything like that.
2:22 What she said was how does somebody get a prescription like that filled. Meaning the overall quantity

[@NorthernSouthside]

​@@shannonrusso3853actually, she does. word for word. go back and listen again😂😂😂😂

[@kellysblackcat]

@@shannonrusso3853 actually she does say that. 3.28.

[@rubydawn1]

the ones that are selling it on the street.

[@NorthernSouthside]

@@rubydawn1 idk i heard ball and dick cancer is kinda painful along with any kind of spine diseases.

[@robertwynkoop7112]

I have no idea how this guy held a medical license for so long. MD’s and medical boards should be preventing this abuse from happening long before it got to the point that it did….

[@emmapeel8163]

the misery this "doctor" caused, not only for the overdoses but everyone who became an addict ... soulless!

[@antmansmom5476]

I used to see a pill happy doctor. He put me on Lithium for my debilitating migraines. He pulled a bottle out of his personal stash cabinet 😮. When I didn't react well to it, he asked for the OPEN bottle back!!!

[@JasonTanis]

You mind sharing I’m desperate need of relief ….chronic Lyme disease ebv autoimmune inflmation mengitis …. I’m miserable … and it’s months wait to get into a new docter I don’t know what to do anymore ….. do you know anyone ?

[@antmansmom5476]

I also have Fibromyalgia. I feel your pain. I started seeing a Physiatrist and get trigger point injections and nerve blocks.

[@illegallyblonde232]

Dr. Feelgood 💃💃 look up Dr. Raymond Kraynak, same situation

[@user-fu2mi1nd5l]

Doctor Robert, you're a new and better man He does everything he can

[@rubydawn1]

imagine how many lives he ruineed

[@Fat12219]

I didn't get mine😂 Dr Feel Good 😂