Dentist charged with murder in anesthesia addiction case heads to trial

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James Ryan, a dentist and maxillofacial surgeon in Germantown, Md., supplied drugs that led to a fatal overdose, police allege. He heads to trial this week.

James Ryan, an oral surgeon in Maryland, is accused of supplying his girlfriend with drug solutions and an IV standShare

medical-grade drugs that Ryan, 50, is accused of swiping from his dental office in Germantown and helping administer to Harris, who was 25 when she died in early 2022. The substances in question include ketamine, propofol, and midazolam, all designed to be used during surgery. Abusing them is less common than abuse of other drugs, according to medical literature, but it does happen.

“extreme disregard” for Harris’s life by introducing her to the drugs, setting up the home-delivery system and fostering her addiction. Ryan formerly ran Evolution Oral Surgery, which operated from the third floor of a medical office building. “Our philosophy really is treat patients the way that we want to be treated ourselves,” he said on a promotional video.

On Oct. 28, 2021, two of Harris’s relatives went to Ryan’s home and found Harris “in a totally altered state,” prosecutors wrote in a recent court filing, adding that they also found vials of drugs, saline bags and other medical supplies. They returned later to a similar scene and confronted Ryan about providing Harris with drugs.

Then one of Harris’s sisters accessed her iCloud account, retrieved text messages between her and Ryan, and gave them to investigators.

 

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