Cross Lanes Doctor Suspended for Treating too Many Addicts
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Updated: 8:59 PM Jan 21, 2009
Cross Lanes Doctor Suspended for Treating too Many Addicts
A Cross Lanes doctor has been suspended for a year after the West Virginia Board of Medicine found she prescribed a narcotic to treat too many drug addicts. WEB EXTRA: read the full report from the Board of Medicine
Posted: 10:26 AM Jan 21, 2009
Reporter: Mike Waterhouse
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A Cross Lanes doctor has been suspended for a year after the West Virginia Board of Medicine found she prescribed a narcotic to treat too many drug addicts.

According to the findings statement from the West Virginia BOM, Dr. Lagrimas Sadorra was treating more than twice as many patients with Suboxone (Buprenorphine) as she was authorized under a federal drug-withdrawal program. Sadorra told the BOM she was authorized to treat up to 200, but the BOM found that the permit was up to 100 addicts and she was treating 220.

The Board of Medicine started investigating allegations last March that Sadorra was over prescribing Suboxone, and notified her of the situation. She told the BOM that she would start a "rapid detox" with her patients.

The findings statement says that a complaint committee reviewed the case in November and found that she was still prescribing Suboxone to more than 170 patients.

Besides suspension of her medical license for one year effective 1/8/09, she was also ordered to resign from the federal substance abuse treatment program. She also must serve an additional two years of probation after completing her suspension.

WEB EXTRA: click on the document link above to read the formal complaint from the West Virginia Board of Medicine

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Posted by: becky on Jun 20, 2010 at 03:32 PM

I think that they should not limit how many patients should be seen. Also the price that some doctors try to make you pay is outragious. DR.Sadorra didnt try to take your money she really tried to help you with you addiction. She treated you like you was a person not some dog like everybody else was doing. Dr. Sadorra was a great doctor she helped me get my life straight and i would love to say to her thanks for what you have done for me and for all your other patients to..
Posted by: Michael on Feb 7, 2009 at 11:46 AM

Methadone has been a Godsend for me. Before methadone I had a very poor quality of life. I was not a productive member of society and had major pain issues. Now, my pain is controlled very well with methadone and I am beginning to do things that I used to enjoy before my spine problems began. I am able to focus on what really matters in life and not on my pain or my addiction. It has enabled me to have a quality of live that is as normal as anyone else. I hope that someday more and more doctors will become educated about the disease of addiction and the different modalities to treat it. Far too often doctors are scared of opiate dependent patients or those with chronic pain because of the stigma attached to opiate pain medication. There is a place for opiate medication in the treatment of pain and addiction and more doctors need to be educated concerning this and not punished for fulfilling their oath to help heal the sick. More often then not, doctors are more interested in saving the
Posted by: Michael on Feb 7, 2009 at 10:58 AM

This is a sad sad thing indeed. This doctor was helping addicts get there lives back. To become productive members of society again. To limit the number of patients receiving treatment makes absolutely no sense at all. Doctors are not limited to the number of diabetics they can treat, why addicts. Some laws are outdated and are based on old research and ideals. This kind of baseless punishment only makes doctors more afraid to help individuals with addictive disorders. We need to encourage our physicians to treat addiction not encourage them to send the patients back to the streets to illegally obtain opiates, which they will. I cannot understand the backwards approach that western medicine has towards the treatment of addiction.
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