In Presley’s case, his personal physician, Dr. George Nichopoulos, prescribed him a number of narcotic painkillers and tranquilizers that likely contributed to his death from cardiac arrhythmia in 1977.
Nichopoulos, known as “Dr. Nick,” was acquitted of criminal charges related to Presley’s death. However, he was charged with gross malpractice by the Tennessee Medical Board for the illegal prescription of painkillers and other drugs to Presley, singer Jerry Lee Lewis and other patients.
In January 1980 he was found guilty of over-prescription, received three years’ probation and had his medical licence suspended for three months.
Despite being acquitted later that year on other over-prescription charges, new charges in 1992 resulted in him being stripped of his medical licence in 1995.
In the case of former stripper-turned-reality television star Smith, three people have been charged in connection with the over-prescribing of medications: psychiatrist Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, lawyer and former boyfriend Howard K. Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor.
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