(AP) — A judge has granted a request for there to be no mention of the “opioid epidemic” at a trial against the pain physician brother of a former Hawaiʻi prosecutor imprisoned in a corruption case that also took down her former police chief husband. Dr. Rudolph Puana is scheduled to go to trial in March for drug-dealing allegations. According to federal prosecutors, Puana prescribed oxycodone to his friends so that they could sell the pills for cash and that some of it funded cocaine parties with the doctor. Puana disputes the allegations. His sister Katherine Kealoha and her former police chief husband were convicted of conspiracy in a separate case.

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