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Cheryl Clark

Doctors Call California’s Probe Of Opioid Deaths A ‘Witch Hunt’

By Cheryl Clark January 23, 2019 KFF Health News Original

In a unique crackdown on what it sees as “excessive prescribing,” the state medical board is investigating hundreds of doctors whose patients ultimately died of opioid overdoses — whether or not the doctors prescribed the fatal medications.

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