A co-chairman of the state Senate Health Committee said he plans to hold hearings this fall to address problems within the state- sanctioned physician drug-treatment program. His statement followed a claim last week that a psychiatrist was addicted to drugs when she treated a police officer who later killed five people and himself.

One flaw in the program is the policy of calling enrolled doctors a day before a random urine sample is taken, said state Sen. Joseph F. Vitale, D-Middlesex. Doctors being monitored by the Physicians' Health Program for signs of drug abuse should at the very least be given unannounced tests, he said.

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