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AG seeks to yank Middletown doc's license
« on: October 19, 2009, 06:40:12 PM »
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The Indiana Attorney General is seeking to suspend the license of a Middletown doctor who allegedly wrote 93,000 drug prescriptions in 3½ years and is linked to nine overdose deaths.
In a complaint to the Indiana Medical Licensing Board, the attorney general calls Dr. Phillip Delano Foley a “clear and immediate danger to public health and safety.”
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“It is a constant battle to help people who need controlled substances because of what I call ‘Opia phobia’,” Foley said. ”They make physicians scared to preserve controlled substances and people are going around in severe pain as a result.”
Foley said the attorney general inflated the number of prescriptions he wrote by including basic depressives. He said does thorough reviews of his patients circumstance before prescribing medication.
More than 98 percent of the prescriptions the doctor wrote were for narcotics, depressants, muscle relaxants and stimulants, the complaint says. More than 96 percent of the narcotics prescribed were hydrocodone, oxycodone and morphine.
IndyStar

It sounds like this guy could have kept the DUmp supplied with all the needs cravings.