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…

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

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

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