The doctor and pharmacist facing federal charges of illegally prescribing and selling highly addictive painkillers both face trouble on several fronts. Oxnard family physician Michael B. Huff and Ventura pharmacy owner Richard H. Ozar both have medical malpractice cases pending against them from people who claim they became addicted and ill because of their prescribed medications. One lawsuit compares Huff's waiting room to a "line outside a crack house."
Posted by Editor at December 5, 2003 11:30 AM