It would be interesting to find out if a guy such as Barrett, once rehabbed and clean for a specified time, could get script-writing privileges reinstated. I don’t know the laws, but it would seem unlikely, wouldn’t it?
Maybe he was in recovery before he ever finished medical school - like maybe he had done some kind of performance-enhancing something at USC and had a change of heart, so came back to the Caribe to finish med school.
Just thinking out loud here, but we don’t know that it happened after he was a doctor. Although, it would explain his going from “psychiatrist” to “psychologist” but would not explain his treating ANS as an MD/psych.
well,,,,, in MY world it would be unlikely - but we are in AnnaLand now !