Mother-of-two Audrey Austin, 29, was among those who died
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A Georgia psychiatrist dubbed Dr Death has been charged with murder in the overdose deaths of three patients.
Thirty-six of Dr Narendra Nagareddy's patients died while he was prescribing them painkillers, court documents allege.
Twelve of them died of prescription drug overdoses, post-mortem examinations confirmed.
The doctor could face further charges for at least 30 other deaths, the Henry Herald reports.
Nagareddy - who was arrested in January - allegedly ran a pill mill out of his office in an Atlanta suburb.
In one 11-month period ending in July 2015, he prescribed nearly 500 times the amount of oxycodone prescribed by any other colleague at the Southern Regional Medical Center.
District Attorney Tracy Graham-Lawson said at least 11 of the counts Nagareddy faces include negligence to sign or date prescriptions.
He faces 59 other charges of unauthorised distribution of a controlled substance.
Nagareddy prescribed hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone, fentanyl and amphetamine salts to patients who were suffering addiction, anxiety and depression.
He is charged in the deaths of Cheryl Pennington, 47, David Robinson, 49, and 29-year-old mother-of-two Audrey Austin.
Ms Austin's mother, Ruth Carr, said her daughter was an addict who had died of a prescription drug overdose the day after she visited Nagareddy.
Nagareddy - who was arrested in January - allegedly ran a pill mill out of his office in an Atlanta suburb.
Nagareddy was arrested in January
In one 11-month period ending in July 2015, he prescribed nearly 500 times the amount of oxycodone prescribed by any other colleague at the Southern Regional Medical Center.
District Attorney Tracy Graham-Lawson said at least 11 of the counts Nagareddy faces include negligence to sign or date prescriptions.
He faces 59 other charges of unauthorised distribution of a controlled substance.
Nagareddy prescribed hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone, fentanyl and amphetamine salts to patients who were suffering addiction, anxiety and depression.
He is charged in the deaths of Cheryl Pennington, 47, David Robinson, 49, and 29-year-old mother-of-two Audrey Austin.
Ms Austin's mother, Ruth Carr, said her daughter was an addict who had died of a prescription drug overdose the day after she visited Nagareddy.
"He just overwrote prescriptions for my daughter that weren't necessary," Ms Carr told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"It's the medicine that he gave her that led to her death."
A probation officer raised the alarm after noticing that three people in her caseload who had died were patients of Nagareddy.
The Georgia Composite Medical Board suspended his licence after his arrest.
Prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic levels in the US.
Overdose deaths from opioids, including prescription drugs, have nearly quadrupled since 1999, with over-prescribing blamed as a key cause of addiction.
http://news.sky.com/story/1698872/dr-death-psychiatrist-charged-with-murders
'Dr Death' Psychiatrist Charged With Murders
Thirty-six of Dr Narendra Nagareddy's patients died - 12 from overdoses - as he prescribed them painkillers, it is alleged.
15:06, UK,
Thursday 19 May 2016
Thirty-six of Dr Narendra Nagareddy's patients died while he was prescribing them painkillers, court documents allege.
Twelve of them died of prescription drug overdoses, post-mortem examinations confirmed.
The doctor could face further charges for at least 30 other deaths, the Henry Herald reports.
Nagareddy - who was arrested in January - allegedly ran a pill mill out of his office in an Atlanta suburb.
In one 11-month period ending in July 2015, he prescribed nearly 500 times the amount of oxycodone prescribed by any other colleague at the Southern Regional Medical Center.
District Attorney Tracy Graham-Lawson said at least 11 of the counts Nagareddy faces include negligence to sign or date prescriptions.
He faces 59 other charges of unauthorised distribution of a controlled substance.
Nagareddy prescribed hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone, fentanyl and amphetamine salts to patients who were suffering addiction, anxiety and depression.
He is charged in the deaths of Cheryl Pennington, 47, David Robinson, 49, and 29-year-old mother-of-two Audrey Austin.
Ms Austin's mother, Ruth Carr, said her daughter was an addict who had died of a prescription drug overdose the day after she visited Nagareddy.
Nagareddy - who was arrested in January - allegedly ran a pill mill out of his office in an Atlanta suburb.
Nagareddy was arrested in January
In one 11-month period ending in July 2015, he prescribed nearly 500 times the amount of oxycodone prescribed by any other colleague at the Southern Regional Medical Center.
District Attorney Tracy Graham-Lawson said at least 11 of the counts Nagareddy faces include negligence to sign or date prescriptions.
He faces 59 other charges of unauthorised distribution of a controlled substance.
Nagareddy prescribed hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone, fentanyl and amphetamine salts to patients who were suffering addiction, anxiety and depression.
He is charged in the deaths of Cheryl Pennington, 47, David Robinson, 49, and 29-year-old mother-of-two Audrey Austin.
Ms Austin's mother, Ruth Carr, said her daughter was an addict who had died of a prescription drug overdose the day after she visited Nagareddy.
"He just overwrote prescriptions for my daughter that weren't necessary," Ms Carr told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"It's the medicine that he gave her that led to her death."
A probation officer raised the alarm after noticing that three people in her caseload who had died were patients of Nagareddy.
The Georgia Composite Medical Board suspended his licence after his arrest.
Prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic levels in the US.
Overdose deaths from opioids, including prescription drugs, have nearly quadrupled since 1999, with over-prescribing blamed as a key cause of addiction.
http://news.sky.com/story/1698872/dr-death-psychiatrist-charged-with-murders
'Dr Death' Psychiatrist Charged With Murders
Thirty-six of Dr Narendra Nagareddy's patients died - 12 from overdoses - as he prescribed them painkillers, it is alleged.
15:06, UK,
Thursday 19 May 2016
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