Dear Friends in Pain,

The state of Florida and another physician writing pain medications.

But is this what the story is truly about?

1. This physician worked in a HIV clinic that was cited for
Medicaid fraud; they resold medications intended for those
with HIV, this physician was the M.D. who signed off on
this fraud.

a. How many with HIV suffered in pain without their
medications?
b. How many died of AIDS if indeed antivirals were
not provided.

2. If this was known and investigated why was this physician not
arrested and incarcerated for this; several crimes were
committed.

3. The mother of the son who overdosed (another perfect son)
stated she wanted to ruin this physician's life her son was
dead. If her son received 3,500 dosages of medication
for NO CAUSE (pain related or otherwise) it appears her
son may have been an "addict" and she is in complete
DENIAL because an addict will find a "fix" wherever they
can.

4. How many overdosed based on legal use or prescribed
use of medications given by this physician? No answer
given in this article.

5. If the patients were legitimate again why were they paying
someone at the front desk for medications and not going
to a pharmacy to fill the medications; most require insurers
to pay.

Again the confusion here arises out of the real crime and what it
means to those honestly suffering NIP and their physicians. It has
become a daily tirade due to the "police state of medicine" to read
these falsely publicized claims.

This physician should have been in prison for shortening, ending
the lives of HIV clients in this Medicaid clinic; if so he would not
have been pushing his cocktails to addicts who came there knowing
they could not get the medications legally.

Peace,

Karen G.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-carrest10jun10,0,6775842.st
ory?coll=sfla-news-broward

The medical director and the owner of a South Florida pain clinic
were arrested and charged with writing prescriptions for cash and
running an illegal pharmacy, state officials said Thursday.

After a two-minute office visit costing up to $400, Dr. Arthur Henson
II would prescribe patients a cocktail of Xanax, a sedative;
OxyContin, a painkiller; Cariprodol, a muscle relaxant; and a mixture
of hydrocodone and oxycodone products, an arrest report said.
Southeastern Wellness Institute owner Mentora Eubanks, who is not a
pharmacist, would fill the prescriptions for a fee at the front
counter, the report said.

No examinations, blood tests, X-rays, referrals or medical treatment
were provided, the report said.

Five of Henson's patients overdosed, according to the arrest report.
In 2003, state health officials disciplined the osteopathic physician
for prescribing too many pills to patients who later died. He was
suspended in June 2003 and later placed on probation. In the past few
years, the clinic moved from Sterling Road to Washington Street in
Hollywood, and it is currently in Aventura.

On Wednesday, Henson, 71, of Pembroke Pines and Eubanks, 48, of
Aventura were arrested by investigators with the state Attorney
General's Office and charged with six counts of writing prescriptions
for controlled drugs in exchange for cash. Eubanks was charged with
operating a pharmacy without a license and dispensing prescriptions
without a license. An arrest warrant was issued for the clinic's
former office manger, Jennifer Soto, who lives in Texas.

"This is so unbelievable. I can cry," Linda McCalister said. Her son,
Scott Roth, a 27-year-old Navy veteran, died of a drug overdose July
18, 2002. He was Henson's patient and received more than 3,500 doses
of potent narcotics and other pills from the clinic when it was on
Stirling Road, state records show.

"Next month will be three years that my son will be dead. ... I had
three goals when my son died," McCalister said. "One was to make sure
[Henson] couldn't do this to anybody else, to ruin his life and to
see him in jail."

Eubanks was being held in the Broward County Jail on Thursday on
$500,000 bail. Henson was released on bail Wednesday night, jail
officials said.

McCalister, a school nurse who lives in Coconut Creek, publicly
criticized Henson's care of her son during a 2003 summit in
Tallahassee to publicize Florida's growing death toll from
prescription drugs. A 2002 South Florida Sun-Sentinel investigation
found almost 400 drug deaths in a two-year period were linked to
overdoses of prescription medication, a number surpassing deaths from
illegal street drugs such as cocaine and heroin. Henson, and Eubanks'
attorney, Tom O'Connell, could not be reached for comment, despite
attempts by phone.

Henson first came to the attention of state health officials in May
2001 when Latin Quarter, a clinic for HIV-positive Medicaid patients,
was under investigation for fraud, according to the arrest report.

The HIV clinic never gave the patients their prescribed medications.
Instead, it filled the prescriptions, billed the state and resold the
drugs, the arrest report says. Henson was the clinic's physician, and
it was his Medicaid provider number that was used to bill the state
about $ 3 million.

The clinic's manager was arrested on 104 counts of fraud, grand theft
and practicing medicine without a license. Henson's Medicaid provider
number was terminated.










Karen Hallenbeck-Sikorsky-George BS,RN,UM,QC

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