If I had to wake up to this every morning, I think I might consider eating the business end of a 12 gauge too!!!
Posted on 12/10/2002 8:53:19 AM PST by ex-Texan
Courtney Love's and Winona Ryder's Physician Loses License for Improperly Writing Prescriptions
Courtney Love doesn't want you to read these documents.
Lawyers for the rock star yesterday (12/10) sent TSG a four-page letter threatening legal action if the site did not immediately remove excerpts from an explosive investigative report by the California Medical Board. "My client, who is not shy about asserting her legal rights, has authorized the commencement of all necessary litigation if the Story is not immediately removed from your website," wrote attorney Paul Karl Lukacs. "You have been warned. This is a matter of the utmost seriousness. Govern yourself accordingly."
After consulting with TSG's legal counsel, the documents will stay in place.
In stripping a Los Angeles doctor of his medical license for gross incompetence and repeated negligent acts, California state regulators concluded that the physician improperly provided drugs to Courtney Love and Winona Ryder, The Smoking Gun has learned.
In a blistering October 28 revocation order (which took effect December 6), the Medical Board of California cited Dr. Jules Lusman, 49, for numerous acts of unprofessional conduct, including the excessive prescription of narcotics. The medical board's 41-page decision notes that Lusman's behavior "might have been the subplot of a Raymond Chandler novel," one that focused on a doctor "catering to the demands of wealthy and/or famous drug seekers...the doctor in question working on a cash-and-carry basis." The state report focuses on Lusman's care of eight patients, who are identified by their initials and some biographical information. In the following excerpts from the medical board report, Love is ID'd as "Patient C.L.," a "fairly well-know" female musician. A footnote indicates that the patient is alternately known as "Ms. C.L-C, as she had at one point been married to Mr. C, who had passed away." Ryder, who used the alias Emily Thompson when being treated by Lusman, is identified as "Patient E.T.," a 29-year-old "well-known entertainer." According to the report, Lusman last year provided painkillers and other drugs to Love and Ryder without examining them, a practice the board termed an "extreme departure from the standard of care." In Love's case, Lusman prescribed injectable Demerol, syringes, and sedative hypnotics. Ryder received Percoset, Xanax, and other drugs from Lusman. Following Ryder's November 6 conviction on grand theft and vandalism charges, Love told People magazine that her friend, "feels like she's in The Crucible, she's got a problem. It's not a physical addiction. It's a compulsion." (10 pages)
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Yeesh. No wonder "Mr. C." killed himself!
Its funny that these things have been quite known about both Ms. Love and Ms. Ryder - that is, their drug problems. Just watch them, especially Courtney. I have never seen an interview where it didn't lookl ike she was on something. Courtney barged in on an interview by Kurt Loder with Madonna at an MTv Music Awards program about two years ago. Even Madonna had this look on her face like, "Oh, God, please no. Not Courtney".
If I had to wake up to this every morning, I think I might consider eating the business end of a 12 gauge too!!!
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