Kin outrage at dentist who gave addict painkillers

A DISGRACED dentist wrote her upstate neighbor prescriptions for painkillers knowing that she was an opioid addict, the woman’s angry relatives say, and resumed treating patients even after she died.

Dr. Emilia Cearnetchi is still writing prescriptions after serving a 60-day jail sentence and getting her license back. Even though Cearnetchi, now working in a dental office in Queens, has been back in the business for a decade, the pain and anger are fresh for addict Eva Concannon’s family.

Relatives will mark the 21st anniversary of Concannon’s death Wednesday. She was 35.

“My sister had no chance,” Kathleen Maloney, 55, said of Concannon, who died of an opioid overdose on July 5, 1996. “(Cearnetchi) knew she was addicted.

“If you are addicted to drugs and you have a licensed professional supplying you, what chance do you have?”

The state Education Department’s Office of the Professions, which investigates and prosecutes professional misconduct, confirmed that the state Dentistry Board restored Cearnetchi’s license, on a probationary basis, in 2005. Her license was fully restored two years later.

Maloney and Concannon’s daughter Stacey are stunned that Cearnetchi is still treating patients.

“If there was a death, why would they ever give her a license again?” Maloney asked. “Who are these state board members who allowed this? Dealing with them is like a teacher getting arrested for molesting a student and the other teachers help her not get fired.”

Stacey Concannon, a 34-yearold mother of two, agrees. “It’s ridiculous,” she said. “You look (Cearnetchi) up online and there is no paper trail, no nothing, about what happened. She just continues on, making money like nothing ever happened. She still has her lifestyle while our lives are still completely rocked.”

Eva Concannon was living in Greenwood Lake, Orange County — some 55 miles from New York City — when she met Cearnetchi. The two were neighbors, and Concannon would baby-sit the dentist’s children.

Concannon came out as a lesbian in high school.

She went into the Army — her dream job — but left after being harassed over her sexual preferences, relatives said.

Finally settling in Greenwood Lake with her daughter, Concannon — who had been nursing a

Eva Concannon (left above) shares “good times,” about a year before she died, with dentist Dr. Emilia Cearnetchi (seated). Photo left, Concannon’s sister Kathleen Maloney with picture of two as children. Inset right, Concannon before her terrible...