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Long Island Doctor Charged With Illegally Prescribing Opioids
A 74-year-old doctor has been arraigned on a 54-count indictment charging him with allegedly selling opioids and amphetamine prescriptions on Long Island. A lengthy investigation into several opioid overdoses last year led to the arrest of George Blatti, a doctor in Rockville Centre who allegedly prescribed opioids to patients without examining them. The investigation into Blatti determined that some of his patients had an inordinate number of prescriptions for opioids that were written by Blatti, a general practitioner originally licensed to practice medicine in 1976, who had no spec…