September 2015: The Board of Pharmacy summarily suspended the BEM Medical Arts Center’s

September 2015: The Board of Pharmacy summarily suspended the BEM Medical Arts Center’s “Terminal Distributor of Dangerous Drugs” license, triggering the State Medical Board of Ohio to suspend Dr. William Paloski’s medical license a few days later. Through Dr. Paloski, the BEM Medical Arts Center, located on Market Street in Boardman, had prescribed 281 gallons of promethazine with codeine over a two-year period. The Board of Pharmacy alleged that BEM had prescribed to a patient or patients who exhibited drug-seeking behavior

March 2016: The state medical board temporarily limits and restricts Dr. Paloski’s osteopathic medical license so that the doctor cannot use any controlled substances. The restriction remained in effect until the doctor demonstrated he is no longer suspended by the Ohio Board of Pharmacy.

October 2016: Dr. Paloski’s license to practice medicine and surgery limited so that he cannot prescribe, order, administer, dispense or personally furnish any controlled substance until he completes a controlled substance prescribing course. The doctor’s license is also subject to probationary terms, conditions and limitations for at least three years.

December 2016: The doctor’s requests for approval of a controlled substance prescribing course, a monitoring physician and practice plan granted by vote of the board.

Feb. 2, 2017: A Mahoning County grand jury indicts Dr. Paloski on 78 counts of illegally prescribing drugs to people over a three-year period. His license remains active, but it still has an ongoing formal action against it by the state medical board.

Source: State Medical Board of Ohio