Narendra Nagareddy, a psychiatrist in Clayton County, Georgia, has been put behind bars on suspicion of over- prescribing prescription medication and running a pill mill.
Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration , the Clayton County District Attorneys office, the Clayton County Police Department and the Georgia Department of Community Supervision converged on Dr Nagareddys office on Thursday armed with a search warrant and an arrest warrant for the psychiatrist.
According to legal documents, 36 of Dr Nagareddys patients have died while being prescribed controlled substances from Dr Nagareddy, 12 of which have been confirmed by investigators through autopsy reports to have been the result of prescription drug intoxication.
Former and current patients have admitted to obtaining controlled substance prescriptions from Dr Nagareddy without having a legitimate medical need, the documents said.
