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Six doctors from across the Metro Detroit area were recently charged with running a $500 million opioid scheme out of Macomb County, Michigan. The lead defendant is Dr. Rajendra Bothra, 77, a well-connected Bloomfield Hills surgeon, philanthropist, and politician who owns The Pain Center USA in Warren and Eastpointe, as well as the Interventional Pain…
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Corrections
What’s a drug court? And other help for addicts
There are about 3,400 drug treatment courts in the United States — the first opened in 1989 in Miami-Dade County during the height of the cocaine crisis. Read More -
Detroit — Six doctors were charged in an unsealed indictment Thursday with cheating Medicare and Medicaid out of almost $500 million and fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic by illegally prescribing more than 13 million doses of prescription pain medication. Read More
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They took an oath to do no harm. But instead they fed America’s opioid addiction to make money, lots of money — until the feds closed in, prosecutors say. Read More
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Prevention Services, Student & Youth
Opioid-related overdose deaths hit new high in Michigan
Lansing — Michigan set a new record for overdose deaths last year, the state reported Thursday, but the rate of growth in the opioid-related death epidemic is slowing. Read More