Episode Details

Rich Morgan graduated from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1998, completed his residency at NYU Rusk Medical Center in 2002, and had everything a decade of medical school and training was supposed to produce — until a common dental procedure exposed him to opioids and changed the direction of everything he had spent his career building. In this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, he shares what the ten year opioid addiction that followed that dental procedure actually looked like, what writing fraudulent prescriptions to pharmacies to fuel his addiction and eventually selling prescriptions to drug dealers actually involved, what getting caught after a customer cooperated with the government actually felt like, and what being sentenced to 168 months in federal prison as a doctor — and navigating the federal system as a Jewish inmate — actually required of him before he was finally ready to rebuild what the addiction and the federal system had taken.

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#doctor #prison #truecrimestories

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Connect with Rich Morgan:

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-morgan-b45366143

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Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick:

https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en

https://ianbick.com/

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introducing Rich Morgan

00:16 Growing Up on Long Island

01:04 Parents and Early Life

01:51 Dreaming of Medicine

02:17 The Incident That Inspired Him

03:33 Fascination with Fixing

04:33 Medical Shows and College

05:31 College and Med School

06:18 What is a DO?

08:46 DO vs MD Schooling

09:57 The Growing Prevalence of DOs

11:05 Salary and Residency

12:15 The First Pill

14:09 The Spiral Begins

15:12 The First Pill Experience

17:19 Dentists and Overprescription

19:30 Writing Himself Prescriptions

21:39 Life at the Height of Addiction

23:12 9/11 and Its Impact

26:10 Sponsor Break: Weight Loss by HIMS

27:33 No Oversight in Hospitals

28:56 Pharmaceutical Wild West

31:16 Self-Image and Dope Sickness

33:16 Patients and Slipping Up

38:53 The Deal with a Dangerous Patient

40:49 Arrest and the Fallout

44:00 Sponsor Break: Factor Meals

46:01 Released on Bail

49:01 Sentenced to 14 Years

52:32 Why No Manslaughter Charge?

56:56 The Real Reason for Selling

58:05 Wife's Reaction and Family Drama

01:01:50 Comparing Sentences: Jared Fogle

01:02:39 Meeting Mobsters in Prison

01:04:33 Father's Support

01:06:06 First Stop: Transfer to Prison

01:07:40 Life at Morgantown

01:12:44 Pedophiles in Prison

01:16:51 Respect as the Doctor

01:20:05 Medical Care in Prison

01:23:24 Jewish Power in the Federal System

01:27:00 Power of the Jewish Community

01:28:25 Money and Influence Behind the Scenes

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