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email article Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Docs to Prison for Opioid Overprescribing Several physicians were recently sentenced to jail time for illegally distributing controlled substances, particularly opioids. Myron Rodos, DO, was sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined $300,000 for running a pill mill in North Philadelphia, where he illegally doled out oxycodone and methadone to patients in exchange for sex and money, according to the Department of Justice. Peter Steiner, MD, a psychiatrist in Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for distributing unnecessary buprenorphine and fentanyl to multiple patients over several years. According to the Louisville ....