Drug pusher offering sham procedures and narcotics for money.
No offense is intended - but that reaction plus the fact that it is well known that pain is undertreated (which I knew from previous reputable articles) tells me a lot about the issue.
>Drug pusher offering sham procedures and narcotics for money. END OF STORY.<
Respectfully, I think the story is more complicated than that. The “sham procedures,” which are tied in to the doctor’s training as an osteopath, are a separate matter, IMO, from the OxyContin prescriptions.
From an investment standpoint, this article is apropos to such companies as ALO who are seeking to develop abuse-resistant opioid treatments.
I strongly disagree. Pain management is a very complicated aspect of good medicine and the DEA has been obstructive for a long time. Perhaps this doctor should have lost his license to practice. But he should never have been tried in court. The state medical boards deal with cases like this all of the time. It is cases like these that provide cover for many lazy physicians to not control pain very well for their patients.
Several years ago, California passed a requirement for medical license renewal that 12 hours of pain management CMEs be earned by Jan 2007. (It is kind of a joke, but the intent is clear.) Radiologists and pathologists, because they lacked this responsibility in their practice, were exempted.
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