He Made Millions Selling Human Body Parts // The Michael Mastromarino Scandal

Ray William Johnson· Host0:00

So this guy made $4 million selling other people's body parts? Now, the guy's name is Mastromarino, and Mastromarino is 36 when this story starts, and he's living in New Jersey. And Mastromarino, he's a successful guy. He's actually a dentist, specifically he's an oral surgeon. However, he also has a problem. He's addicted to prescription painkillers. He once had a back injury, and he was prescribed some medication, and over time he became addicted to it, and he started using his status as a dentist to obtain it. And of course, he keeps this addiction a secret from everyone, so no one suspects a thing. But one day in 2000, everything starts to fall apart for him because he's at work in the middle of performing oral surgery and suddenly Mastromarino gets the urge to take some painkillers. So he excuses himself from the operating room to go to the restroom, and there he injects himself with Demerol. But I guess he does too much of it, and Mastromarino gets so high that he can't make it back to the surgery, and boom, he just collapses right there on the restroom floor. And so quite a bit of time passes, and the hospital staff members start to notice that Mastromarino has been gone for a long time, and his patient is still under anesthesia waiting for him to get back. So the staff goes looking for him, and that is when they find him passed out on the restroom floor with a syringe in his hand