Who is Dr Jacqueline Cleggett from The Pharmacist and what happened to her?

THE PHARMACIST documentary on Netflix is a hard-hitting look at the corrupt world of the illegal opioid crisis.

Viewers will follow the story of a Louisiana pharmacist as he takes down Dr Jacqueline Cleggett. Here's more about her...

Who is Jacqueline Cleggett?

Dr Jacqueline Cleggett was born in a small town in Mississippi called Moss Point in 1962.

She gained her medical degree from the before completing a programme in internal medicine and paediatrics in New Orleans at the LSU Health Sciences Center.

Jacqueline Cleggett married David Howard Present in 1990. He worked as an emergency room physician.

The couple went on to have three children, Kellis, Erin and Marlon - but the couple's relationship deteriorated and she ended up getting custody of the kids.

What happened to Jacqueline Cleggett?

Soon after Jacqueline completed her medical studies, she started a job at Gulf South Medical Consultants treating patients by providing soft tissue examinations.

She went on to open a private clinic in high-crime area of New Orleans and started prescribing people with the wrong medicine to earn extra money for her young family - before ending up with a criminal conviction.

Investigators found she treated 76 patients a day  often prescribing them identical drugs. They paid in cash.

Her medical licence was revoked in 2002.

Jacqueline did not make the hearing to appeal the decision as she was in a psychiatric ward at this time.

She filed for bankruptcy in 2004 and had a horrific car accident which left her brain damaged in 2006.

She was indicted in 2007 for selling highly addictive OxyContin - a drug with a reputation as "replacement heroin"..

She eventually pleaded guilty to charges in 2009.

She struck a plea deal, and received three months probation, before disappearing from the public eye.

What is Netflix documentary The Pharmacist all about?

The Pharmacist is a four-part true crime documentary that dropped on Netflix on February 5, 2020.

It follows the journey of Dan Schneider who lost his own son Daniel Jr, 22 after he was fatally shot while attempting to secure crack cocaine in New Orleans.

Although the police struggled to find the killer, Dan organised his own investigation and eventually solves his son's mysterious death.

Schneider's personal interest in the illegal drug trade makes him question an increase in the prescriptions he, as a pharmacist, is signing off for addictive painkillers from Dr Cleggett.

Viewers will see how she raised suspicions by operating her clinic on weekends and late nights and that she only accepted cash from her numerous patients.

In January 2020 the makers of The Pharmacist interviewed her for the Netflix documentary, with : "Dr Cleggett herself was addicted. She, I think, is still somewhat in denial about that, as we see in the interview.

"And it's sad. It's a sad story. She was the top of her class."

She added: "She had documents she insisted on showing us, some of the facts were in her favour, but the vast majority show someone who was over-prescribing and who was running a pill mill."