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A Cape Cod doctor who prescribed nearly one-third of the
\n painkiller OxyContin in all of Massachusetts in 2004 lost his license
\n to practice
\n medicine yesterday as state regulators declared him ”an immediate and
\n serious threat to the public safety and welfare."<\/p>\n
Dr. Michael R. Brown, who practices in Sandwich, had been the target
\n of a protest earlier this month from parents calling him ”Dr. Feel Good" and
\n accusing him of overprescribing the addictive drug to children.<\/p>\n
The emergency license suspension by the Board of Registration in Medicine
\n capped a week of deepening troubles for Brown, 52, who was arrested by
\n Sandwich police on Monday night on charges of buying back painkillers
\n he had prescribed to a patient. <\/p>\n
At yesterday’s hearing in Boston, officials said, the board investigator
\n presented evidence that Brown was the single leading prescriber of OxyContin
\n in the entire state, with his prescriptions accounting for 288,859 of the
\n 922,985 OxyContin tablets sold through pharmacies in 2004.\n<\/p>\n
Yowza! No wonder he needed to be so heavily medicated. That’s over 791 How did we miss this guy, before he got popped? Perhaps our contacts from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Cape Cod doctor who prescribed nearly one-third of the painkiller OxyContin in all of Massachusetts in 2004 lost his license to practice medicine yesterday as state regulators declared him ”an immediate and serious threat to the public safety and … Continue reading
\n tablets every day, including Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. The
\n guy was clearly suffering from repetitive stress injury. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n were protecting him for themselves. Actually, we don’t see what
\n all the fuss with oxycontin is all about. We’ll take an old-fashioned
\n dilaudid No.4 or a Bronfman cocktail anyday…..<\/em><\/p>\n