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 Dealers The 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 Program is also a self-financing, autonomous law enforcement agency that is largely unaccountable to congressional oversight.