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Updated: Monday, 15 Oct 2012, 6:01 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 15 Oct 2012, 10:43 AM EDT

Nancy Sanders

NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WIVB) - A former North Tonawanda resident, who is a registered nurse, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison in Georgia for selling an illegal drug online to a teenager who later died from an overdose.

Matthew Schroeder, 29, was convicted in August after pleading guilty to dispensing the ‘party drug’, phenazepam, without a prescription. The drug was sold on e-Bay while he was still living in North Tonawanda.

Phenazepam, is similar in effect to Valium and is not listed as a controlled substance under federal drug laws.

An 18-year old who was partying with friends in Acworth, Georgia died after taking the substance with alcohol on the night of August 24, 2010.

Read the U.S. Attorney report on the "party drug" overdose here.

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