CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN FRANCISCO : Head Psychiatrist at Prison Reprimanded
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The chief psychiatrist at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville recently was reprimanded by a state board for dispensing drugs without prescriptions. The action involved Dr. Paul Ernest Morentz’s guilty plea in 1989 to a federal charge, a misdemeanor, involving prescription drugs for co-workers. He was hired full-time by the Department of Corrections soon after.
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