Legislator vows action on reckless prescribing of addictive pills
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
The leader of the California Senate says he would support legislation to give the Medical Board of California more investigators and broader authority.The leader of the California Senate says holes in the state's oversight of physicians, exposed in recent Los Angeles Times articles about prescription drug deaths, are "extremely troubling" and need to be corrected "as quickly as we can."