Dr. Lisa Tseng was an internist practicing in Rowland Heights, CA.

She graduated from Michigan State University college of osteopathic medicine.

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Lisa Tseng was convicted of prescribing massive amounts of drugs to the three men, which led to their death s. drugs in their system, the LA Times reported.

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The case against Dr. Hsiu-Ying “Lisa” Tseng is an unusual example of a case against a doctor in a time when the abuse of prescription drugs has become an epidemic, despite legislators efforts to make it difficult for specialized clinics to easily prescribe pain medication with little scrutiny.

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Tseng’s lawyer said her client naively trusted her patients.

Defense lawyer Tracy Green said patients testified they were legitimately in pain and later became dependent on the drugs, hiding their addictions by seeing other doctors and picking up prescriptions from different pharmacies.

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P rosecutors charged Tseng with murder for the deaths of Vu Nguyen, 28, of Lake Forest; Steven Ogle, 25, of Palm Desert; and Joey Rovero, 21, an Arizona State University student who prosecutors say traveled more than 300 miles with friends from Tempe, Ariz., to obtain prescriptions from Tseng at her Rowland Heights clinic.

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Dr. Tseng has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder - the first time a doctor is serving such a sentence for overprescribing drugs.

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