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Newsbrief:
Pain
Doctor
Hurwitz
Raided
in
Virginia
11/15/02
DEA agents raided the office
and home of Virginia pain management specialist Dr. William Hurwitz this
week, Hurwitz reported in an e-mail to supporters. Hurwitz announced
in August that he was closing his practice at year's end, after he was
named as a target in a federal investigation of doctors suspected of overprescribing
opiates (http://www.drcnet.org/wol/252.html#drhurwitz).
"I am okay," wrote Hurwitz.
"Agents of the DEA executed search warrants on my office and on my home.
They took patient files, financial and other records, my cell phone, and
miscellaneous items. The also copied the hard drives on many of my
computers and took my server, as they did not have the equipment to copy
this in the office. Fortunately, I had back-up files and was able
to reestablish my computer network and resume patient care."
But not for long. With
his practice shutting down, Hurwitz will soon be gone from the field.
And while he had hoped that providing early notice to his patients would
allow them to find other physicians to carry on their pain treatment, many
have been unable to do so, he reported. "I would appreciate any offers
to consider my patients for transfer," he wrote. "There are patients
in Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, West Virginia, Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and Florida for whom possible
referrals are needed."
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Issue #263, 11/15/02
The Week Online Needs Your Help! | Massachusetts: Marijuana on the Move? | Anaheim Conference Reinvigorates Battered Reformers -- Hundreds Gather to Examine Defeats, Plot New Strategies | Narco News Interview with Gustavo de Greiff | Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story | Newsbrief: FCC Says Anti-Drug Ads Must Identify White House Sponsorship | Newsbrief: San Diego Medical Marijuana Rally to Go Transnational | Newsbrief: Hungry Utah Cops Nibbling at Edges of Asset Forfeiture Reform Law, Lying Through Their Teeth as They Campaign | Newsbrief: Free Speech Battle in Tampa after Leafleting Arrest | Newsbrief: Canada Gives Go-Ahead to Safe Injection Sites, First to Open Early Next Year | Newsbrief: Pain Doctor Hurwitz Raided in Virginia | Newsbrief: Pain Doctor Weitzel Retrial Underway in Utah | Newsbrief: Arkansas Prisons Say Methamphetamine Penalties Should Be Lowered | Newsbrief: Border Patrol Begins Random Stops in Michigan | Web Scan: Washington Office on Latin America, Andean Information Network, Latin America Working Group, Miami Herald, Harry Levine | Harm Reduction Coalition Seeking Articles and Artwork for "The Anonymous Issue" | Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision, Tulia, Salvia Divinorum | The Reformer's Calendar
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