“I Felt Like an Old Fool”: Poor Decisions and the Loss of a Medical Career
“I Felt Like an Old Fool”: Poor Decisions and the Loss of a Medical Career
The board's action resulted in a number of my patients going through significant opioid withdrawal, and five of them were hospitalized. … Several had been forced to go to the local methadone clinic and lie about being addicted, just to get pain …
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Mother drops Gregg County Jail death lawsuit
While in jail, Garner had filed a medical grievance complaining of headaches, muscle cramps and other symptoms he credited to withdrawal from methadone. That drug typically is given people to ease withdrawal from heroin or other strong narcotics.
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Man burgled Barnstaple craft shop so he could buy heroin, court hears
Tim Hook, for the defence, said his client had been reliant on a methadone script for a number of years, and his prescription had recently been lowered due one bottle going missing. He said before this incident he had not offended for six years but had …
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