Aug 25, 2008
By: Roxana Hegeman
Associated Press Writer
WICHITA, Kan. - Lawyers for a Kansas doctor charged with illegally prescribing narcotic painkillers linked to 58 accidental overdose deaths want a federal prosecutor and an investigator removed from the case[...]
Aug 16, 2008
By: Erik Eckholm and Olga Pierce
The New York Times
Suffering from excruciating spinal deterioration, Robby Garvin, 24, of South Carolina, tried many painkillers before his doctor prescribed methadone in June 2006, just before Mr. Garvin and his friend Joey Sutton set off for a weekend at an amusement park[...]
Aug 22, 2008
By: By Polly Summar Journal Staff Writer
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
The New Mexico Medical Board declined Thursday to set aside an order prohibiting physician Joan Lewis of Albuquerque from treating her patients’ chronic pain conditions for more than 30 days[...]
Aug 22, 2008
By: Kyle Martin
Hernando Today (FL)
Spring Hill - Here’s a tip: Just because prescription drugs are legal doesn’t mean their abuse carries the same immunity[...]
May 28,2008
By: Teresa Lane
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
WEST PALM BEACH — An appeals court has overturned the manslaughter, drug trafficking and racketeering convictions of a former Port St. Lucie doctor, ruling jurors were tainted by irrelevant testimony about the doctor’s gambling habit[...]
Jun 19,1996
By: Anthony Depalma
The New York Times
Everyone in the building knew that the old woman in the first-floor apartment was suffering unspeakable pain. Her screams echoed through the lobby day and night[..]
