SOUTHFIELD, MI – A Michigan doctor is heading to prison after a federal jury found her guilty of the illegal distribution of prescription opioids.

Dr. Charise Valentine, 69, of Southfield, was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday. From November 2016 to July 2018, Valentine issued more than 3,000 prescriptions for more than 200,000 pills to “patients” who did not have a legitimate medical need for the drugs.

The drugs, including Oxycodone and Oxymorphone, are worth more than $5.2 million, prosecutors said.

“Doctors take an oath to heal, not poison,” United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. said. “As a doctor, this defendant knew better than anyone the devastating harm that opioid addiction causes to people. There is no place in our community for corrupt doctors.”

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