Nearly seven years after being charged with manslaughter in the overdose death of a patient, a Massachusetts doctor has pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence, prosecutors said.

The office of Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell said Tuesday that 83-year-old Dr. Richard Miron of Dracut had pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter, illegal prescribing of controlled substances and Medicaid false claims.

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The doctor was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in a house of correction, suspended for five years, for illegal prescribing; five years' probation for involuntary manslaughter; and six months in a house of correction, suspended for five years, for Medicaid fraud. He was ordered not to practic

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