MEANWHILE THE DEA ONLY CAPTURES 2% OF THE ILLEGAL HEROIN & FENTANYL COMING INTO THE USA, THE REAL PROBLEM! DOCTORS & PHARMACIES DON'T SHOOT BACK EASY TARGETS
-Despite frequent robberies and burglaries of pharmacies, doctors' offices, and warehouses where prescription medications are stored and sold, the DEA has focused a troubling amount of time and resources on the prescriptions issued by practicing physicians. It's easy to see why. Doctors keep records. They pay taxes. They take notes. They're an easier target than common drug dealers. Doctors don't shoot back and Doctors also often aren't aware of asset forfeiture laws.
-A physician's considerable assets can be divided up among the various law enforcement agencies investigating him before he's ever brought to trial.
-Over the last several years, hundreds of physicians have been put on trial for charges ranging from health insurance fraud to drug distribution, even to manslaughter and murder for over-prescribing prescription narcotics. Many times, investigators seize a doctor's house, office, and bank account, leaving him no resources with which to defend himself.
-Even if criminal charges are never filed a police dept can still bring a civil action against a suspected medical professional to recover the cost of an investigation.
MEANWHILE THE DEA ONLY CAPTURES 2% OF THE ILLEGAL HEROIN & FENTANYL COMING INTO THE USA, THE REAL PROBLEM! DOCTORS & PHARMACIES DON'T SHOOT BACK EASY TARGETS
But The DEA & SAMHSA (The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) Give “Carte Blanche” & “Waivers to prescribe higher doses/limits of controlled substances” to Providers that prescribe “Addiction Therapy Drugs” that are more addictive, controlled substances, tagged the “lifetime therapy drug”, more severe withdrawal symptoms, more side effects and much more expensive!
-Addiction Drug Therapy buprenorphine $115.00 per week or $5,980.00 per year. Suboxone sells for $560 at CVS and $553 at Target for a 30-day supply, according to GoodRx.
-Addiction Drug Therapy naltrexone ( Vivitrol ) – up to $1200 to $1,176.50 per injection $1,176.50 per month or $14,112.00 per year.
-Addiction Drug Therapy Methadone $126.00 per week or $6,552.00 per year.
GO FIGURE!
Politicians Practicing Medicine Without A License For Profit!
MEANWHILE THE DEA ONLY CAPTURES 2% OF THE ILLEGAL HEROIN & FENTANYL COMING INTO THE USA, THE REAL PROBLEM! DOCTORS & PHARMACIES DON'T SHOOT BACK EASY TARGETS
-Despite frequent robberies and burglaries of pharmacies, doctors' offices, and warehouses where prescription medications are stored and sold, the DEA has focused a troubling amount of time and resources on the prescriptions issued by practicing physicians. It's easy to see why. Doctors keep records. They pay taxes. They take notes. They're an easier target than common drug dealers. Doctors don't shoot back and Doctors also often aren't aware of asset forfeiture laws.
-A physician's considerable assets can be divided up among the various law enforcement agencies investigating him before he's ever brought to trial.
-Over the last several years, hundreds of physicians have been put on trial for charges ranging from health insurance fraud to drug distribution, even to manslaughter and murder for over-prescribing prescription narcotics. Many times, investigators seize a doctor's house, office, and bank account, leaving him no resources with which to defend himself.
-Even if criminal charges are never filed a police dept can still bring a civil action against a suspected medical professional to recover the cost of an investigation.
MEANWHILE THE DEA ONLY CAPTURES 2% OF THE ILLEGAL HEROIN & FENTANYL COMING INTO THE USA, THE REAL PROBLEM! DOCTORS & PHARMACIES DON'T SHOOT BACK EASY TARGETS
Fattening “Comfort” Food Addictions deprives Americans, years of their lives more than any other substance.
Psychiatrist Andrew J. Kolodny comes out with NEW CDC GUIDELINES. SEEMS “LOVE” is the hardest “drug like” addiction to quit. It causes more murders and suicides than any other addiction. Kolodny suspects it is even contagious and will restrict any Public Displays of Affection.
****97% of users don't have a problem with Physician prescribed opioids~per Harvard School of Medicine 2013
“The Doctor's Office is just around the corner. And He wrote 20 prescriptions for Robitussin AC Cough Syrup, last month.”
“Wasn't that cold season, Sir?”
“Who cares! It's a NARCOTIC! Just think of the financial assets we get to keep.”
MEANWHILE THE DEA ONLY CAPTURES 2% OF THE ILLEGAL HEROIN & FENTANYL COMING INTO THE USA, THE REAL PROBLEM! DOCTORS & PHARMACIES DON'T SHOOT BACK EASY TARGETS
The big problem is that the DEA can never win the War on Drugs. There is no one single enemy and there is no single leader with which to do battle. Take out one drug lord and there is always someone waiting in the wings to step into their shoes. Heck, there are times when it is two or even three somebodies waiting. The lure of easy money to be made by selling illegal drugs is huge. The large amounts of cash generated mean the drug dealers can arm themselves with machine guns and automatic weapons. It is a dangerous job trying to stop the flow of drugs across our borders and within our cities.
The War on Drugs is failing and, in an effort to justify its continued existence, the DEA changed course in the early days of the Obama Administration. It started to focus more on prescription drugs and their abuse. Coke and heroin are still problems on our streets, but instead they have chosen to go after people who don't shoot back: people who are in the business of treating those of us who live with chronic pain.
95% of all illegal prescription drugs sold on the streets come from thefts from pharmacies, warehouses and trucks. So only 5% comes from illegally diverted prescriptions. With those figures, you would think the DEA would target the thieves, but nope. They don't bring in cash and lots of it. They go after doctors. Some doctors who ran and do run pill mills. These doctors are very few and far between. But yet the DEA still go after Doctors and capture 2% of the illegal Heroin & Fentanyl flooding the USA.
Is it because the DEA got some terrible ratings and possibly would lose government funding that they decided it was easier and more lucrative to go after Doctors & Pharmacies, instead of going after street dealers and the cartels? The DEA contends that they only go after the really egregious cases, but the evidence doesn't support that.
MEANWHILE THE DEA ONLY CAPTURES 2% OF THE ILLEGAL HEROIN & FENTANYL COMING INTO THE USA, THE REAL PROBLEM! DOCTORS & PHARMACIES DON'T SHOOT BACK EASY TARGETS
Treating Doctors as Drug DealersThe DEA’s War on Prescription Painkillers
Due to bad press, the DEA needed to find anew front for the War on Drugs, one that could produce tangible, measurable results.
The DEA’s Diversion Control Programis also a self-financing, autonomous law enforcement agency that is largely unaccountable to congressional oversight.
The DEA’s painkiller campaign has resulted in the pursuit and prosecution of well-meaning doctors. It has also scared many doctorsout of pain management altogether, and likely persuaded others not to enter it, thus worseningthe already widespread problem of undertreated or untreated chronic pain.
The most obvious (though least likely)course of action to address these problems would be for Congress to end the costly, regrettable War on Drugs. Barring that, the best way for law enforcement officials to battle the problem of diversion would be to combat the theft of the drugs from ware-houses, manufacturing facilities, and enroute to pharmacies. More importantly, the DEA, DOJ, Congress, and state and local authorities should end the senseless persecution of doctors and allow them to pursue whatever treatment options they feel are inthe best interests of their patients, free fromthe watchful eye of law enforcement.
Due to bad press, the DEA needed to find a new front for the War on Drugs, one that could produce tangible, measurable results…and more lucrative. Doctors and Pharmacies don't shoot back!
The DEA’s Diversion Control Program is also a self-financing, autonomous law enforcement agency that is largely unaccountable to congressional oversight.
https://object.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa545.pdf
Is it because the DEA got some terrible ratings and possibly would lose government funding that they decided it was easier and more lucrative to go after Doctors & Pharmacies, instead of going after street dealers and the cartels? The DEA contends that they only go after the really egregious cases, but the evidence doesn't support that.
The DEA’s Diversion Control Programis also a self-financing, autonomous law enforcement agency that is largely unaccountable to congressional oversight.
If we can't stop prisoner use of drugs, how can we rationally expect to stop average free citizens from using them.
Abraham Lincoln said "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and make crime out of things that are not crimes."
The War on Drugs have Eroded civil rights of law abiding citizens…property can be confiscated from you BEFORE you are found guilty; search and wiretap authority has expanded…including blanket drug testing of certain segments in society.
Recall that during prohibition, bootleggers and police used to shoot it out over black market 'shine. Illegal speakeasies did a booming trade, the profits of which went to organized crime. With the end of prohibition, alcohol has been taxed and provides a revenue stream to the State.