Grand Rapids, Michigan (scroll down):

A federal grand jury in Detroit indicted an Ann Arbor doctor Tuesday for illegally selling prescription painkillers.

Dr. Stuart Bilyeu, 45, repeatedly prescribed drugs to patients with little or no examination and no significant complaints of pain, according to a criminal complaint issued in July. Bilyeu either wrote prescriptions or gave the drugs to the patients himself from January 2003 to May 10 at his Down River Pain Clinic in Detroit.

There had been complaints from Bilyeu’s patients and relatives of his patients that Bilyeu was involved in more than one patient overdose and one patient overdose death, the complaint said.

A conviction carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison or a $1-million fine or both.

‘Nother one down.

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