Still writing prescriptions even though woman died

back injury — quickly became addicted to painkillers.

Maloney didn’t know about her sister’s addiction until June 1996, about a month before her death.

She and her husband made an unannounced visit to her sister’s home and “couldn’t believe what she looked like,” Maloney said.

“She looked absolutely terrible,” Maloney said. “She was holding her stomach like she was in pain. I said, ‘Are you OK?’ Her girlfriend and (Cearnetchi) were there, they kept saying, ‘Oh, she has the flu.’ ”

A week later, Concannon called her sibling and made a startling confession — she had an $1,100-a-month addiction to painkillers, mostly hydrocodone.

Her sister had already done two stints in rehab, but she relapsed.

Before her death, Concannon was taking “15 pills a day not to feel sick, 30 a day to feel good,” Maloney said.

“I asked her, ‘Where are you getting it from?’ ” she recalled. “‘Remember the dentist you met, my friend? She gives me the prescriptions.’ ”

“I was absolutely blown away,” Maloney said. “I said to her, ‘You must be exaggerating. You couldn’t possibly be taking that amount because you would be dead.’ ”

A few weeks later, Concannon was dead. All the painkillers she was taking forced her liver to shut down.

Concannon died at a time when opioid overdoses were rare in the state.

According to the National Library of Medicine, 2,285 New York City residents died of opioid overdoses between 1990 and 2000.

More than 1,300 people died of drug overdoses in the city last year. Opioids were involved in 82% of the 2016 deaths, according to city data.

On April 22, 1999, in Orange County Court, Cearnetchi pleaded guilty to one charge of second-degree reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor. She admitted that she supplied Concannon with prescription drugs, but claimed the drugs did not cause Concannon’s death.

When reached by the Daily News, Cearnetchi said she only wrote two prescriptions for Concannon, who had told her that she had a toothache.

“If I had known Eva was a drug addict, I would have never gave her any prescriptions,” she told The News. “I’m sorry that I didn’t recognize she was an addict before I gave her the painkillers. I gave her the painkiller but she had a painful tooth, that’s all.”

Maloney’s claims that the dentist knew Concannon was a drug addict are complete lies, Cearnetchi said.

“She is absolutely not in touch with reality,” she said of Maloney.