Doctor indicted in 2 overdose deaths
Photo credit: Jim Staubitser | Federal agents raided the office of Dr. William Conway in Baldwin and carried out about a half-dozen boxes of records in February. Conway was arrested in June 2012 along with 97 other people in a massive federal and local investigation of illegal prescription painkillers. He was charged with illegally distributing 780,000 oxycodone pills. (Feb. 29, 2012)
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A Baldwin doctor was charged Friday with causing the overdose deaths of two patients by overprescribing the painkiller oxycodone during a time period in which he doled out prescriptions for a staggering 782,032 pills, federal authorities said.
Prosecutors said Dr. William Conway, 69, prescribed 450 oxycodone pills to Giovanni Manzella, 34, of Long Beach, less than 48 hours before his overdose...
