Case DIH-2018
Pawankumar Jain
A Las Cruces, New Mexico, pain doctor; he admitted writing a patient two methadone prescriptions outside the usual course of practice after a cursory exam, and that she died two days after filling the second one; sentencing evidence showed the methadone caused her death.
- Court
- Federal, District of New Mexico
- State
- New Mexico
- Year of death
- 2009
- Year sentenced
- 2019
- Drugs
- Methadone (prescriptions)
- Conduct
- Prescribing
- Relationship
- Prescriber / patient
- Conviction
- Unlawfully dispensing a controlled substance; health care fraud
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 108 months in prison
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what New Mexico’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see New Mexico in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govFormer dona ana county doctor sentenced 108 months conviction unlawful distribution
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