The Connecticut Medical Examining Board has revoked the license of Gerson M. Sternstein, MD, an addiction psychiatrist in Berlin, Conn., for overprescribing pain medications, according to a Hartford Courant report.
Dr. Sternstein, whose license was suspended in Aug. 2010, was charged with recklessly overmedicating 10 drug-addicted patients in 2009. The families of two other patients who died have filed wrongful death lawsuits against him.
Dr. Sternstein, who chose patients already addicted to drugs, was the state's highest prescriber by far of Actiq, a pain medication 80 times stronger than morphine.
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