An Alabama doctor whose medical license was permanently revoked after a woman he was having a sexual relationship with died of an overdose from opioids he provided is being sued for wrongful death, according to court records.

Sammy Becdach, an oncologist who worked at the Clearview Cancer Institute in Decatur until the Medical Licensure Commission of Alabama yanked his license after a June settlement with him, was sued along with the pharmacy Walgreens, which was accused of filling Katelyn Whitworth’s prescriptions provided by Becdach, according to the lawsuit filed last month in Madison County Circuit Court.

Efforts to reach both Becdach and Walgreens were unsuccessful.

The doctor met Whitworth when he patronized a Birmingham steakhouse in early 2017 where Whitworth worked as a hostess, according to the suit filed by Whitworth’s mother, Kimberly Shea Goldstein. Becdach was 49 or 50 years old at the time while Whitworth was 18.

Becdach got Whitworth’s phone number when they first met and said he was free to get into a relationship with her despite being married at the time with two children, according to the suit.

From the fall of 2017 through December 2020, Becdach gave Whitworth cash, a credit card, a Huntsville apartment and other gifts “in exchange for sex,” the suit claimed.

The doctor also allegedly sexually assaulted and raped Whitworth during that time “and continued a pattern and practice of providing controlled substances to, or forcing controlled substances upon Whitworth, including opiates and benzodiazepines, that or which were not lawfully prescribed to Whitworth, that or which at times were forced upon her without her consent, and/or that or which were provided or forced upon Whitworth for reasons other than for legitimate medical treatment—namely, for sex with, in exchange for sex with, and to sexually assault and rape, Whitworth,” the suit went on to state.

Becdach had easy access to controlled substances as an oncologist at a cancer treatment center and obtained the drugs “via theft, fraudulent prescriptions, and/or other illegal and illegitimate means,” the suit alleged.

Through his employment, the suit claimed, the doctor created a “sham physician-patient relationship with Whitworth for purposes of continuing his illegal provision of controlled substances, including opiates and benzodiazepines, to Whitworth so that he could continue to induce and control her via addiction and dependency.”

From November 2018 to June 2018, Becdach allegedly supplied Whitworth with at least nine prescriptions for controlled substances, including five for opioids, or 200 pills, and four for benzodiazepines, or 250 pills, “vis-à-vis his previous, fraudulent establishment of a patient physician relationship with Whitworth,” according to the suit.

Whitworth died on Dec. 18, 2020, of an accidental overdose of fentanyl and morphine.

Goldstein alleged Becdach supplied the morphine that killed Whitworth.

The suit also alleged Walgreens failed to follow federal, state and its own procedures for dispensing controlled substances.

Both Becdach and Walgreens were accused of negligence, wantonness and recklessness in the lawsuit.