A Kansas doctor was sentenced to life in prison for unlawfully prescribing medication blamed for an overdose death.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas doctor was sentenced to life in prison Friday for unlawfully prescribing medication blamed for an overdose death, the latest prosecution in a governmentSteven R. Henson, 57, was immediately taken into custody following sentencing. There was an audible gasp in the packed courtroom when U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten pronounced the life sentence.
The government presented evidence at trial that Henson wrote prescriptions in return for cash, postdated prescriptions and wrote them without a medical need or legitimate medical exam. Prosecutors said the doctor prescribed opioid medications in amounts likely to lead to addiction.Sedgwick County Jail via AP file
His case is the latest in a string of prosecutions across the nation targeting physicians accused of overprescribing opioids. The National Association of Attorneys General, working under a research grant, found there had been 378 doctors who had been charged or whose cases were resolved by the end of 2016. Of those, U.S. attorneys' offices charged 249 and state authorities charged 131, its researchers found.
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