Richard Miron, accused of illegally prescribing opioids that led to a patient’s death, has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in what is believed to be the first conviction of its kind in Massachusetts.
Miron, 83, was the largest prescriber of high-dose, short-acting oxycodone among all MassHealth providers in the state between September 2015 and February 2016, according to the Attorney General’s Office. At the time, he was a solo internal medicine practitioner based in Dracut.
After a series of guilty pleas on November 17 in Middlesex County Superior Court, Miron was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail, all suspended for five years, and was ordered not to practice medicine…