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Florida Doctor Charged in Two More Overdose Deaths

By Lindsay F. Wiley [Bio]

February 15, 2003 - Prosecutors have charged Dr. Asuncion M. Luyao, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, with two additional counts of manslaughter arising out of the overdose deaths of her patients. Dr. Luyao is currently free on $455,000 bail while she awaits trial on six counts of manslaughter.

State officials suspended Luyao's medical license last March when she was arrested for trafficking in oxycodone and several other prescription pain drugs. Prosecutors added manslaughter charges upon further investigation into the overdose deaths of several of her patients.

At least one of the patients' families has filed a civil suit alleging that Luyao failed to order appropriate tests to determine the necessity of continued treatment with narcotics and also failed to warn patients against mixing the prescription drugs. The family alleges that the doctor prescribed 1,080 doses of narcotic drugs for the patient even after relatives asked her to reduce the amount of the patient's prescriptions.