The medical license of a Harrison physician, Dr. James Hawk, has again been suspended following a claim made by the Arkansas State Medical Board Hawk was overprescribing medication to 16 patients.
According to KY3, the emergency order of suspension also says Hawk prescribed or administered dangerous or controlled drugs to patients the physician knows to be using drugs for nontherapeutic purposes, and prescribed or administered dangerous or controlled drugs to those patients for “other than legitimate medical purposes.”
The document also said Hawk “failed to maintain records which would reflect the monitoring and justification of the reason for the ongoing prescribing of the scheduled medication for his patient.”
His hearing in front of the board is scheduled for August 2nd.
Hawk’s suspension is a result of an investigation made by the state board after a father, whose daughter died of an overdose, claimed his daughter’s death was linked to drugs prescribed by Hawk to a man the daughter was with at the time of her death.
This latest suspension isn’t the first time Hawk has been under investigation. He has been suspended by state medical boards, including those in Arkansas and California, not once, not twice, but as least four times to date.
For the history of Hawk’s suspensions, visit our initial story online www.ktlo.com/2018/05/16/harrison-doctor-accused-of-overprescribing-opioids/
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