Case DIH-2016
Robert Gene Rand
A Reno, Nevada, physician who ran Rand Family Care; despite warnings from another doctor and the patient's mother and a hospitalization, he kept prescribing oxycodone to a patient, which led to the patient's overdose death in October 2015.
- Court
- Federal, District of Nevada
- State
- Nevada
- Year of death
- 2015
- Year sentenced
- 2017
- Drugs
- Oxycodone (prescriptions)
- Conduct
- Prescribing
- Relationship
- Prescriber / patient
- Conviction
- Involuntary manslaughter of a patient; unlawful distribution of oxycodone
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 10 years in prison
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Nevada’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Nevada in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govReno doctor sentenced 10 years prison involuntary manslaughter patient and unlawful
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