An internal medicine specialist who operates out of a private office in Southfield has had his controlled substances license summarily suspended after the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) found evidence the doctor has been overprescribing controlled substances to patients, some of whom would drive as far as 200 miles for an appointment.
LARA alleges that Solomon Adu-Beniako has been prescribing "controlled substances without good faith and failed to maintain effective controls against drug diversion."
According to court filings, Adu-Beniako was found to be doling out prescriptions for Xanax, Soma, Percocet, and other drugs to patients who came from as far away as Escanaba and Cincinnati. The filings also reveal that between 20 and 30 percent of his patients paid for their prescriptions in cash.…