Villa Hills dentist Jay M. Sadrinia was recently convicted in federal court for a patient’s death caused by his unlawful prescribing of morphine.
The jury convicted Sadrinia on June 22 on “one count of unlawful distribution of controlled substances resulting in death and one count of unlawful distribution of controlled substances,” per the Department of Justice.
Sadrinia owned and operated dental clinics in Crescent Springs, and according to court documents, he was “told explicitly that his prescribing of controlled substances was dangerous and put his patients’ lives at risk.”
Despite these warnings, documents show Sadrinia continued to prescribe “powerful opioids” during routine dental procedures.
During the case in question, Sadrinia charged a patient $37,000 for dental procedures and then prescribed the patient “medically unnecessary quantities of narcotics, including morphine.”
The patient died from an overdose of the morphine several days later.
Sadrinia is set to be sentenced on Dec. 13. He faces a “mandatory minimum of 20 years in prison and a maximum penalty of life in prison on the unlawful distribution of controlled substances resulting in death count, and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on the unlawful distribution count.”