Does the DEA scare you?
Posted by Sean Keating on July 23rd, 2007. Filed under: DEA, DEA, federal prison, painkillers, pain_medication, william_hurwitz.
New York Post columnist Jacob Sullum wrote a good summing up of trial of Dr. William Hurwitz of McLean, Va., recently sentenced to five years in federal prison for prescribing painkillers for patients who turned out to be addicts or drug dealers. Sullum calls upon doctors to be brave in the face of an overzealous DEA.
When inadequate treatment is the usual course of professional practice, doctors must be brave simply to prescribe the pain medication their patients need to function.
Hurwitz got five years in federal prison (which is better than the 25 years he got in his first trial).
The Feds vs. MDs [via New York Post]
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