Doctor faces trial over rapid detox method. I’ve been aware of the antics of this physician, himself long recovered from drug dependency, who does “rapid opiate detoxification” as an outpatient office procedure without hospitalizing his patients … and losing at least seven of them within days of his procedure over the last four years. Part of the process involves putting them under general anaesthesia, which IMHO is just crazy to do outside a hospital setting. Both his grandstanding on TV talk shows and the operation of his procedure through a for-profit company reinforce the impression of the cowboy unprofessionalism and possibly frank irresponsibility of his activities. No surprise that state regulators are going after him. AP