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Prosecutors are trying to stop a Utah doctor from prescribing more pills, alleging he’s done more to fuel the opioid epidemic than end it

In this July 23, 2018, photo, newly-released inmate George Ballentine holds his prescription medicine Suboxone outside a pharmacy in Greenfield, Mass. While serving his sentence at the Franklin County Jail, Ballentine received a daily dose of buprenorphine (Suboxone) to control his heroin and opioid cravings. His doctor hopes to soon take him off the medication he'd been on for his last two months in jail. A Utah doctor was charged April 12, 2019, with unlawfully selling the pills. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)