SANTA ROSA — A federal jury convicted a 75-year-old California doctor of prescribed an opioids and different highly effective medication to a affected person who didn’t want them and who ultimately died of an overdose, prosecutors stated.
Whereas operating a ache administration clinic in Santa Rosa, Thomas Keller pharmaceuticals “in dosages that far exceeded the same old course of professional observe and was for no authentic medical want,” the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace stated in a press release.
Jurors on Thursday discovered Keller responsible of 4 counts of distributing managed substances exterior the scope of his skilled observe, prosecutors stated.
Keller was indicted in 2018. Proof at trial confirmed Keller prescribed oxycodone, diazepam and carisoprodol to a girl who overdosed and died, in keeping with prosecutors.
Keller might face 20 years in jail when he’s sentenced.