A South Texas doctor has been indicted on charges that he prescribed opioid painkillers to two patients without legitimate medical reasons, resulting in their deaths.
A federal grand jury in Del Rio added the charges last week against Alfonso Luevano, 50, a Carrizo Springs doctor with multiple offices throughout Southwest Texas, according to federal and state officials.
Luevano, 50, and one of his employees were first charged in May on a multitude of counts, but the new charges against the physician now have him facing a potentially longer prison sentence if he’s convicted of the two new counts of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death.
I’m forever saddened from all of this. This has totally destroyed my family because my wife was one of these patients. If I could only turn back time and save her life. This is something that I battle with everyday. It’s been almost two years now and it feels like yesterday. 😢