FEDS: “DR. DEATH’ SLEW 5 WITH PAINKILLERS

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A dope-dealing doc has the blood of at least five fatal overdoses on his hands after pumping hundreds of patients full of painkillers, federal prosecutors claimed to The National ENQUIRER.

Stunned by the sheer number of patients ushered through his practice, the feds are taking the unusual step of pursuing a sentence of life in prison for Dr. Jaime Guerrero, from Louisville, Ky.

Bombshell court documents obtained by The ENQUIRER allege Guerrero crammed in more than 100 clients a day, seeing them for less than three minutes each, before prescribing some of the strongest painkillers available today.

Prosecutors accused Guerrero of causing more patient deaths in the Western District of Kentucky than any other physician previously charged.

The new “Dr. Death” is accused of improperly writing prescriptions for oxycodone, hydrocodone [Vicodin] and methadone for dozens of patients – none of whom had actual medical needs! He is facing criminal fines of $2.75 million.

But the “scriptscrawling” pain doc is free after posting a $50,000 bond ahead of his March 31 court date. Guerrero ran pain-management offices in Louisville and Jeffersonville, Ind.

Prosecutors charge the 47-year-old doc wrote 1,059 prescriptions for oxycodone – often misused as a recreational drug – in 2012. Senior citizens kept Guerrero particularly busy in 2012 – more than 99 percent of his patients that year were over 65 years old.

The Bluegrass State has a particularly bad rep for quacks.  

U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn Jr. said, “The prescribing practices of a very few physicians in Kentucky have caused immeasurable harm.” The pill-pusher’s offices are closed, and his medical license is currently suspended in Indiana.