Methadone Treatment Facilities: Probe into clinic deaths reveals safety violations
"This is just terribly frustrating and angering to me."
N.C. regulators probing the deaths of at least 13 patients in a Charlotte company's methadone clinics have fined the firm $27,000 for violations of safety-and-treatment rules.
A state report detailing the allegations specifically mentions the deaths of two people who received methadone at a Statesville clinic run by McLeod Addictive Disease Center, a nonprofit based in Charlotte.
The report says McLeod didn't follow precautions that might have prevented the deaths, and then failed to report the fatalities to a state agency as required. Read more