Complaint alleges Houston-based doctor improperly gave drugs to child
By Lise Olsen and Todd Ackerman
March 28, 2012
A Houston-based psychiatrist and the state’s leading prescriber of the anti-anxiety drug Xanax is the subject of a complaint to the Texas Medical Board alleging he improperly and simultaneously prescribed four drugs to an 8-year-old, placing the child “at undue risk.”
The complaint against Dr. G.K. Ravichandran comes as the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has begun releasing to U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley results of its investigations into doctors who prescribe large quantities of pain and psychiatric medications, including to children. Ravichandran has not been specifically named in the disclosures.
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