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MIKE SIEGEL / THE SEATTLE TIMES
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Monday, December 12, 2011

Vancouver pain clinic leaves behind doubts, chaos and deaths

A nurse practitioner at the Payette Clinic prescribed Thomas Pike Jr. a combined daily dosage of painkillers that was 18 times higher than the state's cautionary threshold, according to court records. Pike, 40, overdosed on methadone in September 2009.