The State - News from June 22, 1986

A state agency that licenses doctors is not doing enough to rehabilitate physicians suffering from alcoholism and drug abuse, according to a report from the state auditor general. The Board of Medical Quality Assurance was criticized for not monitoring more closely doctors who enter a special alcohol and drug recovery program set up by the board in 1980. Those in the program are supposed to be visited by authorities at least once every two months, and monthly urine samples are required. Yet the report said seven months passed between some visits to recovering doctors and urine samples were never collected.