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JANUARY 6, 2021

Stiff Penalties Common When Physicians Found Guilty of Opioid-Related Crimes

Originally published in our sister publication, Pain Medicine News.

Physicians from a variety of clinical specialties are increasingly being prosecuted for opioid-related offenses, according to a study (abstract 3457, PAIN MEDICINE-22) submitted to the canceled 2020 annual meeting of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).

Principal investigator Guohua Li, DrPH, a professor of anesthesiology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City, and