A physician loses a malpractice case after “rapid detox” – a controversial practice:
An Oakland County jury awarded the family of a Kansas man $35.3 million Thursday after he died following a controversial detoxification treatment at a now-closed Troy clinic.
The verdict was against Dr. Aeneas Guiney, 70, of Grosse Pointe, an anesthesiologist who operated the Project Straight clinic in Troy. Guiney placed patients under anesthesia to allow them to undergo narcotic withdrawal, then provided them with drugs designed to fight narcotic addiction — a practice not widely accepted in the medical field.
