Psychiatrist arrested after 36 of his patients died

A Georgia psychiatrist Narenda Nagareddy has been arrested for allegedly running a “pill mill” and overprescribing medications to his patients.

Nagareddy was arrested on Thursday at his Jonesboro office, which was raided by almost 40 agents with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration as well as the Clayton County Police Department.

Clayton County Police Chief Mike Register said: “He’s a psychiatrist in Jonesboro who has been overprescribing opiates and benzodiazepine and the last several years has had a multitude of overdoses and overdose deaths”, he told WSB-TV Channel 2 News.

Based on appropriate files, “36 of the individuals of Nagareddy have died while being recommended controlled materials from Doctor Nagareddy, 12 which have now been established by detectives through autopsy studies to get been caused by prescription drug intoxication”.

Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson said that Dr. Nagareddy would be charged with prescribing pain medication, which is not within the scope of his profession as a psychiatrist.

Legal documents state that former and current patients of Nagareddy have admitted to “obtaining controlled substance prescriptions…without having a legitimate medical need” from the doctor. She died of the deadly prescription medication overdose only days after she visited with Nagareddy. Her mother Ruth Carr says that her daughter had recently left rehab but the psychiatrist made it “easy” for her daughter to get drugs by fronting as a “treatment” option. “If the allegations are true, he is Doctor Death, no doubt about it”.

WSB-TV 2 Atlanta To date, 36 of Nagareddy’s patients have died of overdoses.

Dr. Nagareddy has been practicing since 1999 and has no criminal background or disciplinary issues.

Other review website carry along the same theme, if you want drugs, go to Dr. Nagareddy.

Reportedly, it was the mother-of-two’s death that brought about the inquiry into Dr Nagareddy. He’s certified with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. An estimated 52 million people over the age of 12 are reported to have used prescription drugs for non-medical purposes in their lifetime.