Pain Doctor Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder After Overdoses

An Oklahoma pain management doctor faces charges of second-degree murder after five of her patients overdosed on opioids she prescribed, the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office announced Friday. Investigators said Regan Nichols prescribed each of the five overdose victims more than 1,800 opioid pills in the month that they died. Three of the five were prescribed a drug cocktail the Washington Post called the "holy trinity" for addicts: the painkiller Hydrocodone, the anti-anxiety medication Xanax and the muscle relaxant Soma.  The Attorney General's Office charged h...