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Dentist fined for over prescribing medicine leads antidrug group
June 26th, 2004
The Letcher County chapter of an eastern Kentucky drug-fighting program chose as its chairman a dentist who had been fined by state regulators for failing to document narcotics he had prescribed to patients. David Narramore, MD, paid the $500 fine in January as part of an agreement to settle a 17-count complaint that claimed he had over-prescribed painkillers. Investigators said the dentist prescribed narcotics 20 times for a patient who was already in a drug-abuse treatment program. Narramore, the Republican Party chairman in Letcher County, told the Lexington Herald-Leader that the Kentucky Board of Dentistry's decision to drop more serious...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2004-06-26)
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