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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Doctor linked to two dead wrestlers

The personal doctor of Chris Benoit, the pro wrestler who killed his wife and son and then himself in June, doctored another wrestler who died last year. According to Micheal Durham’s pharmacy records, Dr. Phil Astin wrote four prescriptions for painkillers within a 25-day period in March 2005 for Durham. Durham wrestled under the stage name "Johnny Grunge. Astin faces federal charges of overprescribing medication to two patients other than Benoit. Benoit killed himself and his family in June at his suburban Atlanta home.

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