Timeline: One doctor, eight deaths

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Prescription drug oversight
Dr. Julio Diaz speaks with a patient in his office. In January, the Santa Barbara doctor was arrested by DEA agents on federal drug-trafficking charges. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

Oct. 7, 2004

An employee of Dr. Carlos Estiandan tells a Medical Board of California investigator that the doctor will give drug-addicted patients "anything they want."

Nov. 29, 2004

Robin Hollis, a medical board investigator, begins looking into Estiandan's prescribing.

April 25, 2005

A California Highway Patrol officer pulls over a motorist on the Harbor Freeway and finds dozens of blank and filled-in prescription forms, some from Estiandan's prescription pads.

June 20, 2005

A Costco pharmacist in Los Angeles complains to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration about Estiandan's prescription-writing and says he has stopped filling the doctor's prescriptions.

Aug. 31, 2005

An undercover sheriff's narcotics officer poses as a patient and sees Estiandan, who prescribes Vicodin, Soma, Valium and narcotic cough syrup.

Oct. 28, 2005

DEA agents stops a man in Albuquerque, N.M., with more than 1,800 pills of painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs and six one-pint bottles of narcotic cough syrup. The labels identify Estiandan as the prescriber.

Feb. 8, 2006

A U.S. Postal Service inspector in Houston seizes packages containing bottles of narcotic cough syrup, some listing Estiandan as the prescriber.

Feb. 28, 2006

Police in Ontario seize a package containing bottles of narcotic cough syrup destined for Tennessee, some listing Estiandan as the prescriber.

March 8, 2006

Los Angeles sheriff's deputies arrest a woman with 46 prescriptions written by Estiandan, along with pills and narcotic cough syrup.

Aug. 11, 2006

Andrew Corless, a patient, calls Estiandan's office and leaves a message asking the doctor to "please not see him anymore." Hours later, he calls with a message "to disregard" the earlier call.

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