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Related: Drug-Dealing Doc Indicted
"Needham doctor’s fate weighed" by Claire McNeill | Globe correspondent July 23, 2014
The Needham doctor’s drug-dealing scheme was simple, the prosecutor said in his closing argument Wednesday: put vulnerable patients on powerful opioids, keep them high, and collect every month.
But defense attorneys said Dr. Joseph P. Zolot, 64, was a compassionate practitioner who navigated the complex field of pain management to find the best options for his patients.
Any negligence, they argued, was unintentional, the result of drug-addicted clients who may have duped him to keep their prescriptions coming. And therefore it was not deserving of a guilty verdict.
Zolot is on trial in federal court in Boston, where Assistant US Attorney Michael Crowley argued that he irresponsibly prescribed powerful painkillers between 2003 and 2007. Prosecutors say the prescriptions led to six overdose deaths, though Zolot is no longer charged with the deaths.
See: Needham doctor will face lesser charges in patients’ deaths
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Zolot and nurse Lisa M. Pliner, 54, are charged with conspiracy to violate drug laws and seven counts of illegal drug distribution.
“They were doing nothing more than addicting [patients] and giving them drugs to either sell or give away,” Crowley said. “They knew what they were doing. They just didn’t care.”
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Zolot moved to the United States from the former Soviet Union as a political refugee in the 1980s....
Damn Russians! First Ukraine, now this!
As Zolot’s attorney, Howard M. Cooper, spoke Wednesday, Zolot watched intently, with Russian-speaking supporters sitting in courtroom benches behind him.
One of Zolot’s patients who died, Crowley said, was so addicted that he cut open fentanyl packages to suck out the liquid inside. Another had clear symptoms of heroin use, and others openly admitted their addictions to Zolot, Crowley said, yet Zolot prescribed painkillers.
Zolot’s patients included Dennis Dillon, who was 36 when he died in 2004. Jeffrey Campbell, 26; Thomas Dunphy, 49; and James Curley, 44, died in 2005. Christopher Bartoloni, 35, and Scot Poulack, 39, both died in 2006.
Zolot and Pliner were initially charged with causing the deaths of their patients. Prosecutors withdrew those charges after a Supreme Court ruling this year narrowed the scope of evidence allowed to prove those charges.
See: A $upremely Political Court
Jurors are scheduled to begin deliberation Thursday morning.
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Also see:
Man testifies in doctor’s painkiller case
Accused Needham doctor was caring, his lawyer asserts
Nodded off while waiting for the verdict.
