The state comptroller has found that Medicaid patients in treatment for opioid addiction are being prescribed opioids outside of the programs, because of lax monitoring by health officials and prescribers.
Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released an audit of state opioid treatment programs on Nov. 26, and shared his concerns with the Department of Health.
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By Frank Luisi
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12/13/18
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Tom Liotti fired back last week after being accused of providing ineffective counsel to his former client, Merrick physician Dr. Michael Belfiore.
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By Erik Hawkins
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11/9/18
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In the nearly two years that Atlantic Beach resident Melissa Miller has been a state assemblywoman, she has learned that government moves at a glacial pace — which Miller, the mother of a special-needs child, finds frustrating.
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11/1/18
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Dr. Michael Belfiore, who practiced in Merrick, was convicted in May on 28 federal charges related to his prescribing of opioids — including causing the deaths of two patients. Still in custody pending sentencing, Belfiore filed a motion last week to have the guilty verdict overturned.
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By Erik Hawkins
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10/25/18
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New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood last week joined dozens of states and New York counties in suing OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma for its alleged role in causing the opioid crisis.
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By Erik Hawkins
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8/23/18
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Supporters of Dr. Michael Belfiore, whose Merrick medical practice closed last month after he was convicted on federal criminal charges, are raising funds online for him to appeal his conviction.
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By Erik Hawkins
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7/12/18
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My brief viewer-host relationship with Anthony Bourdain took a nosedive in May 2013, a month after his CNN travel-food show, “Parts Unknown,” premiered.
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6/28/18
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A chemistry professor at Hofstra University and his pupil are conducting research in forensic science to alleviate the burden of the nation-wide opioid epidemic.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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6/21/18
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Dr. Michael Belfiore, a Merrick physician charged with writing hundreds of opioid prescriptions for profit and causing the deaths of two South Shore men was found guilty on all 28 charges late Wednesday afternoon, after a five-week trial.
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By Erik Hawkins
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5/23/18
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Dr. Michael Belfiore, a Merrick physician charged with writing hundreds of opioid prescriptions for profit and causing the deaths of two South Shore men was found guilty on all 28 charges late Wednesday afternoon, after a five-week trial.
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By Erik Hawkins
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5/23/18
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