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By Tad Dickens
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A Roanoke pain specialist whose practice has fallen under scrutiny in civil and criminal courts has been sued yet again - this time by someone who claims the doctor's prescriptions left him an addict. The lawsuit, filed this week in Roanoke Circuit Court, is at least the fifth to target Dr. Cecil B. Knox, his practice, and two of his employees. Court orders have put the civil cases on hold while Knox continues to deal with federal charges that were unresolved in an eight-week trial that ended Nov. 1. Other lawsuits have alleged that Knox's care of patients resulted in deaths. But Scott Jason Lane, the latest to file suit, is claiming that Knox's and his assistants' actions led to his addiction to prescription drugs such as the painkillers OxyContin and methadone. Lane became one of Knox's patients after a January 1990 car crash that injured his right shoulder and lower back, and stayed in his care for the next eight years, according to the lawsuit. He is asking for at least $2.35 million from Knox, his now-shuttered Southwest Virginia Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and clinic employees Beverly Gale Boone and Tiffany T. Durham. A jury acquitted Knox and Boone in about half the charges they faced, and deadlocked on the remaining counts. By then, Durham had already pleaded guilty to two counts of knowledge that a felony was going on at the practice and not reporting it to authorities. Durham testified in the federal trial. The next trial is set for April.
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