Father sues Vancouver, Wash., clinic after daughter’s lethal overdose
Published 3:23 pm Sunday, July 19, 2009
PORTLAND, Ore. — A clinic in Vancouver, Wash., is being sued for $1.3 million over the overdose death of a teenager in suburban Portland, Ore.
In the lawsuit, the parents of 18-year-old Rachel Daggett accuse the Payette Clinic of negligence or recklessness in prescribing oxycodone. Daggett died on Dec. 9 after smoking a 30-milligram pill of the synthetic narcotic at a friend’s home.
Gresham, Ore., police found the teenager got the pills from two brothers who lived in Troutdale — Ronald Zaloznik, who had a prescription for oxycodone, and his younger brother, Tyler Zaloznik, who sold them.
The dead teenager’s father, Jack Daggett of Damascus, said he found 41 complaints had been filed against the clinic since 2006. He said his main goal in the lawsuit is to shut the clinic down.
