The Commonwealth Court ruled that an injured worker was not entitled to a prescription for Provigil — a medication that promotes wakefulness — to counteract somnolence from his use of opioid pain killers for an industrial injury.
Case: Barnhart v. WCAB (Tremont Borough), No. 66 C.D. 2017, 08/16/2017, unpublished.
Facts: Jack Barnhart injured his back in 1996 while working for Tremont Borough.
In 1999, he began seeing Dr. John B. Chawluk for failed back syndrome and radicular back pain associated with his work injury.
Chawluk prescribed OxyContin and Lidoderm to alleviate B...
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