{Charleston, West Virginia}...U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin has charged Dr. Anita Dawson, 55, of Milton, with aiding and abetting in obtaining controlled substances by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, and subterfuge. The West Virginia Board of Osteopathy suspended Dawson’s medical license in April 2010 after federal and state investigators executed a search warrant at her office in Milton. The Board says Dawson caused or contributed to eight drug overdose deaths, as well as an April 2009 car crash that killed Carole Crawford, her daughter, Meghan Crawford and her daughter's friend, Kelsey Kuhn, all of Barboursville. They died in a collision with a car driven by Erma Brown, who pleaded guilty to driving while abusing massive amounts of pain killers prescribed to her by Dawson. Following the search and the suspension of Dawson's medical license, she voluntarily gave up her license permanently. Dawson faces up to four years in federal prison.
