“…AMERICA IS WHERE WE HAVE TURNED A MEDICAL PROVIDER’S CLINICAL JUDGMENT INTO MENS- REA… WE ARE ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE TO HELL”
dr. clarence verdell, md
This extensive source argues that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has created a “culture of fear” and engaged in “medical McCarthyism” by criminalizing medical providers and patients through aggressive, fear-based tactics that define the quality of care. The author contends that the DEA’s focus on punishing prescribers for perceived “overprescribing” has led to a rise in dangerous counterfeit medications and preventable patient suffering, ultimately holding the DEA “liable for undue harm and deaths.”
The article uses the case of Sean “P. Diddy” Combs as an example of what it calls the “Tulsafication” of individuals, suggesting a pattern of targeted prosecutions reminiscent of historical injustices and highlighting that this aggressive approach extends to pharmacies, pain care physicians, and even public figures. The author also includes excerpts suggesting a “shadow government of medicine” where data mining is used to unfairly target physicians and that the “war on drugs” is a deceptive facade used by various agencies to maintain power and funding, proposing a shift in focus to deterring drug buyers as a more effective strategy.
“…WE NOW ARE A COUNTRY THAT IMPRISONS MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE..”
dr. clarence verdell, md
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NORMAN J CLEMENT RPH., DDS, NORMAN L. CLEMENT PHARM-TECH, MALACHI F. MACKANDAL PHARMD, BELINDA BROWN-PARKER, IN THE SPIRIT OF JOSEPH SOLVO ESQ., IN THE SPIRIT OF REV. C.T. VIVIAN, JELANI ZIMBABWE CLEMENT, BS., MBA., IN THE SPIRIT OF THE HON. PATRICE LUMUMBA, IN THE SPIRIT OF ERLIN CLEMENT SR., WILLIE GUINYARD BS., JOSEPH WEBSTER MD., MBA, BEVERLY C. PRINCE MD., FACS., LEROY BAYLOR, JAY K. WALER F. WRENN III., MD., JOSHI MD., MBA, ADRIENNE EDMUNDSON, ESTER HYATT PH.D., WALTER L. SMITH BS., IN THE SPIRIT OF BRAHM FISHER ESQ., MICHELE ALEXANDER MD., CUDJOE WILDING BS, MARTIN NDJOU, BS., RPH., IN THE SPIRIT OF DEBRA LYNN SHEPHERD, BERES E. MUSCHETT, STRATEGIC ADVISORS
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The DEA’s Long Game
By Daily Remedy Team
October 10, 2021
DEA’S STRONG-ARMING OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
The canary in the coal mine is a metaphor alluding to the initial sign of an impending calamity.
An apt metaphor for what just transpired. Recently, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) issued a public safety alert informing the public about a “sharp increase in fake prescription pills containing Fentanyl and Meth[amphetamines].”
The alert was the canary in the coal mine, but the impending calamity is not what we are led to believe.
We have known of a rise in counterfeit prescription pills for many years, a rise induced directly by DEA policies inflicted upon patients.
PROOF: IN THE CASE OF SEAN PUFF DADDY COMBS
According to Dr. L. Joseph Parker, MD,
“…to want to parallel what’s happening with Sean Combs Chubby Checker was dating a Native American girl, and was prosecuted under the man act for crossing state lines “immoral purposes“ that’s the law they’re using to go after these people.
If you’re a star, you are going to have girlfriends in multiple places in the country, and apparently, if you fly them to your home, buy anything for them, or give them some spending money, they can lock you up.”
PROOF
“…The DEA orchestrated a culture of fear that can be described as medical McCarthyism, in which the fear of prosecution DEFINED THE QUALITY OF CARE…”
The impending calamity is not the risks counterfeit pills pose to the public but the legal liability the DEA faces for its failed policies.
For years, federal agencies and physician advocacy groups remained in lockstep on the causes of the opioid epidemic. We heard it all: lax prescription guidelines, overprescribing by willing physicians, and the addictive nature of opioids.
As reported August 29, 2023, article by Maia Szalavitz, “Portugal Has Succeeded Where We’ve Failed With Addiction:“
“…Racial disparities also illustrate the lack of effectiveness of criminalization as a path to care. Black people are at least twice as likely to be charged with drug crimes as white people are, despite similar rates of use and sales. If criminalization boosted treatment, Black people would have greater access to care.
But a 2023 national survey found that they are less likely to get treatment: 51 percent of white people with addiction in their family reported that addicted relatives got treatment, compared with 35 percent for Black families…”
Dr. John Locke, MD
“Besides the crime which consists in violating the laws, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done, and some person or other, some other man, receives damage by his transgression; in which case,
he who hath received any damage has (besides the right of punishment common to him, with other men) a particular right to seek reparation from him that hath done it. And any other person who finds it just may also join with him that is injured, and assist him in recovering from the offender so much as may make satisfaction for the harm he hath suffered“
A CULTURE OF FEAR AND INTIMIDATION
B-I-G P-O-P-P-A
“No info for the DEA
Federal agents mad ’cause I’m flagrant
Tap my cell and the phone in the basement
My team supreme, stay clean
Triple beam lyrical dream, I be that
Cat you see at all events bent
Gats in holsters, girls on shoulders“
Unfortunately, these purported causes proved erroneous or deliberately misrepresented at worst. The implementation of policies based on these causes led to a rise in suicide and clinical stigmatization among chronic pain patients and patients with substance use dependencies.
An atrocity the DEA bears direct responsibility for
The DEA orchestrated a culture of fear that can be described as medical McCarthyism, in which the fear of prosecution defined the quality of care for stigmatized patients. Accusations formed the basis of convictions as we saw physicians imprisoned for providing care and patients abruptly abandoned without legal recourse.
“WE ARE ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE TO HELL”
Voice of Frank Figliuzzi, former Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for Counterintelligence, on Stephanie Miller Show
!That is until now!
PROFILING AND OPEN SHAKE-DOWNS AT AIRPORTS
The American Medical Association (AMA) Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently issued a report through its newly formed Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force recommending significant policy changes it believes would address the nation’s opioid epidemic more effectively. Stopping short of outright criticizing the DEA, the report proposes policy recommendations that run diametrically opposite to the DEA’s approach to the epidemic.
This makes the DEA’s public health alert even more curious. It is absurd to believe the DEA is unaware of the clinical consequences of its failed policies. And issuing a public health alert without acknowledging the basis for such an alert is deliberately deceptive. It disrespects the lives of the patients lost through these policies and conveys a lack of accountability on the part of the DEA.
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EXPOSING THE FALSE NARRATIVE OF THE OPIOID CRISIS
However, lacking accountability is different from lacking awareness. The DEA is aware its aggressive approach to criminalizing patient encounters has led to a rise in counterfeit prescription medications and adverse patient outcomes.
THE DEA IS LIABLE FOR UNDUE HARM AND DEATHS OF THOUSANDS
THE TULSAFICATION OF KENDALL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY HANSEN AND HIS RACEHORSES
In Kentucky, a federal judge deemed a pain management practice liable for the suicide of a patient unable to receive adequate pain relief, who then committed suicide due to untreated pain.
The judge ruled that the physicians in practice were liable for the suicide because they inappropriately reduced the patient’s opioid prescription dosage.
A ruling that implies patients have a right to be treated for pain when applied broadly to all chronic pain patients would hold the DEA liable for undue harm caused to patients based on its aggressive stance on opioid prescriptions.
The DEA is well aware of this but seems bent on assuming no accountability, hoping the failed policies are seen as well-intentioned policy errors.
But in recently uncovered reports obtained through multiple FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests, the DEA’s aggressive stance appears to extend beyond erroneous policies and the specter of clinical fear to something far more nefarious, far more deliberate.
“..WE ARE ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE TO HELL..”
For years, the DEA colluded with major insurance companies to obtain data on prescribing practices for physicians who treated patients in pain with prescription opioids, contracting covert, third-party data-mining companies to troll medical records without the consent of patients or the knowledge of physicians.
In 2016, these data-mining companies modified the data analysis, changing the definition of a high-risk opioid prescriber to encompass a majority of physicians who prescribed opioids. The adjustment was a blatant attempt to coordinate and speed physicians’ indictment and strengthen the likelihood of convictions.
It should be no surprise that this was when we began to see a rise in physician imprisonments and counterfeit opioids. Both of which are direct consequences of deliberately misrepresenting the trolled medical data.
Federal Agents Mad.“
DEA: ARMED WITH BADGES, GUNS, AND PROFOUND STUPIDITY OF NARCOTIC CONTROL MEDICATIONS
Now, years later, lacking the support of physician advocacy groups or the protection of public perception, the DEA confronts the ugly reality of its failed policies – and the ensuing liability.
But liability comes in different forms. It can be characterized as a harmless mistake or as a deliberate misrepresentation. The DEA’s behavior, as elucidated through the FOIA documents, suggests the latter.
“…UNFORTUNATELY, BLACK MEDIA HAS PROVEN ITSELF EFFECTIVE AT COVERING TWO THINGS SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT…”
dr. clarence verdell, md, psychiatrist clinical addiction specialist
Yet the public health alert provides a convenient rebuttal. A plausible excuse for the DEA to claim its failed policies was an honest mistake.
When the DEA realized its policies were leading to a rise in counterfeit opioid prescriptions, it issued a public health alert, suggesting the adverse clinical outcomes – the suicides and stigmatizations – were nothing more than an unintended consequence, an honest mistake.
For the DEA to issue a public health alert for a crisis that began years ago through its policies is a curious course of action – something we rarely see from federal agencies.
However, a broader analysis reveals that the timing of the alert is less curious and more strategic. A canary in the coal mine – for the impending liability the DEA will soon face.
PROOF FIGHT BACK
As a 25-year veteran agent for the DEA, Michael Levine worked deep-cover cases from Bangkok to Buenos Aires and witnessed firsthand scandalous violations of drug laws by U.S. officials.
Fight Back: A Solution Between Prohibition and Legalization
The Idea of Fight Back is Born
EXCEPTS BY MICHAEL LEVINE
FORMER DEA SPECIAL AGENT
“…There is no drug war. It’s a fraud. No other nation in the world has a drug war. The rest have addiction problems. We have war. Why?
Because it’s a toy, a grab bag with a lot of big hands in it…” ….To Levine, the real news—not the fingertip kind the media like—resides in the actions and motivations of secrecy fetishists, backroom rulers who despise limits, and government employees who have begun to control their employers……The DEA,” he says, “wants more power, more people, more funding, more headlines, and glory.
The politicians want a platform easily sold to voters, something that the public can identify and think something’s being done. They want an illusion that they can throw millions of dollars at and show that they’re challenging the drug barons; the war is great theater for politicians.
The Pentagon and CIA: With the fade of communism, they are building a pretext for maintaining their budgets. Everybody wants the toy. All held together by a phrase: war on drugs. The black humor, the madness, is heartbreaking.
Drugs are a business like any other. The American way in business competition is to focus on demand. Supply follows demand, not vice versa, as our bureaucrats would have us believe. Discourage buyers, and the dealers go out of business.
Throughout my career, I had observed that wherever there was an obvious police presence, no matter how bad the community, drug buyers would vanish like smoke on a windy day.
If the police presence were maintained long enough, dealers would shut down and move on. Suppliers and dealers, on the other hand, protected by high-priced lawyers and enticed by huge and growing profits, were impossible to frighten away. Suppose we in America could find a way to focus all our enforcement and rehabilitation resources on the buyer in an American-style cure. In that case, I believe the battle would have been won as quickly as it had happened in both Japan and China.
I found evidence all over the country, of individual communities whose aggressively vocal and visible presence on the street going after “johns” to combat prostitution was 100 percent effective, why not drugs too? I looked further and did find communities that, without funding or police support, were effective in stopping drug trafficking by frightening away the buyers.21
Buyers, 85% of whom are so-called casual users with jobs, homes, and families to protect, are frightened by almost anything. If they spot a police car, a camera, someone who even looks like a cop, or an angry citizen staring at them, they will move on. Hard-core buyers, most of whom live from fix to fix, are terrified of losing their drugs to police seizures. Many are fugitives and repeat offenders from numerous drug-related crimes and live in fear of being identified.
If an area was considered “hot” by the buyer—watched by the police—the drug business would die instantly. I, therefore, began the Fight Back plan by listing various step-by-step tactics that citizens, working in partnership with police, might use to create a zone that is hostile for drug buyers.22
Sure, they would move elsewhere, but it would disrupt the business entirely, which always acts to lessen all drug-related crime. What would happen if the national focus of all those billions of dollars were on illegal drug buyers? There would be no “elsewhere.”
FOR NOW, YOU ARE WITHIN
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