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Acting Attorney General Robert Lougy, seen in this file photo, announced Thursday a physician's license had been revoked for over-prescribing addictive painkillers. (Tony Kurdzuk | The Star-Ledger)

TRENTON -- The state's physician disciplinary board has revoked the license of a physician in Passaic County for at least three years for doling out painkillers to patients without examining them, acting Attorney General Robert Lougy announced Thursday.

Last year, the state Board of Medical Examiners suspended the license of Mohamed Kawam Jabakji of Prospect Park, known to his patients as Dr. Kawam. State investigators found evidence he had prescribed Oxycodone, Percocet and Codeine to six patients without assessing their medical condition.

"It's appalling that a member of the medical profession would help fuel New Jersey's prescription drug abuse epidemic by prescribing highly addictive pain pills indiscriminately," according to Lougy's announcement. "Physicians like Dr. Kawam, who endanger the public through greed and negligence, should be removed from practice."

Kawam cannot apply for the reinstatement of his medical license for at least three years.

Even if the board grants a reinstatement, his authority to prescribe controlled dangerous substances is permanently revoked, Lougy said. He would need to complete a record-keeping course and appear before the board to "demonstrate his fitness to resume practice," the announcement said.

Kawam also must pay the state $167,702, $110,000 of which is a civil penalty and $57,702 is reimbursement for the investigative and legal costs.

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