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Pain Doc Gets 10 Years in Prison for Patient Overdose Deaths

Not Enough –

Feb. 2, 2018 – A western Montana pain doctor who was convicted of prescribing drugs that led to the overdose deaths of two patients has been sentenced to 10 years in prison … During the trial, prosecutors alleged Christensen overprescribed opiates and other drugs in dangerous combinations and should have known he was putting patients at risk because five of his patients in Idaho died and six others were hospitalized in the 1990’s because of overdoses. He was not convicted in Idaho, but he voluntarily gave up his medical license for two years.
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