Kentucky Dentist Sentenced For Giving Drug Addicts Opioids, Feds Say

A dentist from Kentucky will spend 20 years in prison for unlawfully prescribing opioids to patients whom he knew were drug addicts, a federal court ruled Friday, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Dr. Jay M. Sadrinia, 61, of Villa Hills, prescribed “powerful opioids” to patients whose history of substance abuse disorder he himself noted in his patient charts, the DOJ said in a statement Friday. One of Sadrinia’s patients died of morphine overdose several days after Sadrinia “charged the patient $37,000 for dental procedures and prescribed the patient medically unnecessary quantities of narcotics, including morphine,” the statement revealed.

Sadrinia was convicted of “one count of unlawful distribution of controlled substances resulting in death and one count of unlawful distribution of controlled substances” in June 2023, the DOJ said in a separate…