{"id":169202,"date":"2017-07-18T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=169202"},"modified":"2017-07-18T15:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T19:54:17","slug":"abortion-doctors-license-suspended-after-failing-to-record-opioid-prescriptions-in-patient-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-doctors-license-suspended-after-failing-to-record-opioid-prescriptions-in-patient-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio suspends abortionist’s license for failing to record opioid drugs in patient records"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not long after a Live Action News report<\/a> on the closings of two Ohio abortion facilities,\u00a0the\u00a0Akron Women\u2019s Medical Group<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Cleveland Women\u2019s Medical Group<\/a>, comes the news that the Ohio Medical Board has suspended the license of abortionist David Burkons, who operates the Northeast Ohio Women’s Center in Cuyahoga Falls, for failing to record prescriptions involving opioids and benzodiazepine drugs.<\/p>\n

At the time this article was written, the website for the state’s medical board\u00a0showed<\/a> the abortion doctor’s license as “active”; however, the Columbus Dispatch reported<\/a> news of the suspension:<\/p>\n

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David Burkons 2015 complaint about blank prescriptions<\/p><\/div>\n

…[T]he state Medical Board of Ohio on Wednesday suspended for six months the medical license of Dr. David Burkons, who owns an abortion clinic in a suburb of Akron, for signing blank prescriptions and leaving them with employees to fill out and for failing to record prescriptions in patient files.<\/p>\n

The offenses were unrelated to Burkons\u2019 work at the Northeast Ohio Women\u2019s Clinic in Cuyahoga Falls, and it was unclear how his suspension would affect the facility, which the doctor opened in 2014.<\/p>\n

The actions that led to Burkons\u2019 suspension date to 2011. Medical-board records do not reveal where the doctor was working at the time, and he did not return a message seeking comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the 2015 complaint<\/a>, Burkons was accused, in part, of failing to record certain prescribed controlled substances into patient records, some being\u00a0opioid medications<\/a> such as Vicodin, Hydrocodone, and Percocet, which are highly addictive.<\/p>\n

According to the Centers for Disease Control<\/a> (CDC),\u00a0nearly half of all U.S. opioid overdose deaths involve a prescription, and in\u00a02015, more than 15,000 people died from overdoses involving prescription opioids.<\/p>\n

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In addition, the FDA<\/a>\u00a0has conducted and reviewed several studies showing that “serious risks are associated with the combined use of opioids and benzodiazepines” — drugs the Ohio abortionist also failed to record in patients’ charts, such as:<\/p>\n