Doctor Accused Of Over-Prescribing Drugs To OZZY OSBOURNE Is Rebuked By Medical Board

The Los Angeles Times reports that a Beverly Hills physician accused of over-prescribing addictive drugs to Ozzy Osbourne, along with other celebrity clients, has been publicly reprimanded by the Medical Board of California, his lawyer said this week.

The board three years ago accused Dr. David A. Kipper (photo) of gross negligence in the care of eight patients and threatened to take away his medical license.

Two weeks after the medical board filed its complaint, Ozzy Osbourne told The Times he blamed over-medication by Kipper for the disoriented behavior he exhibited on his reality TV series "The Osbournes".

"I was wiped out on pills," said Osbourne, who later filed his own complaint with the board. "I couldn't talk. I couldn't walk. I could barely stand up. I was lumbering about like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. It got to the point where I was scared to close my eyes at night — afraid I might not wake up."

In February 2004, Kipper negotiated a settlement to save his medical license by agreeing to a period of probation, sources close to the investigation said. Kipper backed out of the agreement after Cedars-Sinai Medical Center warned that he would not be allowed to treat patients at the hospital while his license was on probationary status.

The settlement was put on hold when Osbourne filed his complaint, accusing Kipper of putting him on a regimen of habit-forming drugs after charging tens of thousands of dollars for detoxification.

The board dismissed Osbourne's complaint after the singer failed to show up for interviews with investigators, according to people familiar with the investigation. By the time the investigators reviewed Osbourne's charts, Kipper's record-keeping practices had improved, those sources said.

Read the entire article at the Los Angeles Times.