Another doctor and pharmacist go down for administering opiate-based pain relief.

Note that both had spotless records, and that prosecutors concede that the patients to whom they prescribed the meds were legitimate. The two will now go to jail because (a) they prescribed what prosectors with no medical training deemed excessive amounts of opiates, and (b) the town in which the prescribed them has a problem with street use of OxyContin.

That, apparently, is enough to send them to jail. If they’re reflective of the larger Ventura community’s sentiment on this issue, the comments to the article are particularly depressing.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 21st, 2006 at 6:21 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Pain Treatment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.