The Los Angeles Angels team physician prescribed more than 600 opioid pills over a half-decade to Eric Kay, the communications staffer who later gave Tyler Skaggs a counterfeit pill that led to the pitcher’s death, according to testimony on Wednesday, Nov. 5 in the ongoing wrongful death trial against the ball club.

Dr. Craig Milhouse acknowledged that he had prescribed 630 Norco and Vicodin pills to Kay from 2009 to 2015, based on information attorneys for Skaggs’ family pulled from a California Department of Justice database that tracks pharmacy prescriptions for controlled substances.

It was unclear from Milhouse’s testimony exactly why he prescribed Kay the pills.

Milhouse noted that patient confidentiality laws prevented him from going into specifics regarding his professional rela

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