
NORMAN J CLEMENT RPH., DDS, NORMAN L. CLEMENT PHARM-TECH, MALACHI F. MACKANDAL PHARMD, BELINDA BROWN-PARKER, IN THE SPIRIT OF JOSEPH SOLVO ESQ., INC.T. 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., WALTER F. WRENN III., MD., JULIE KILLINGWORTH, LESLY POMPY MD., CHRISTOPHER RUSSO, MD., NANCY SEEFELDT, WILLIE GUINYARD BS., JOSEPH WEBSTER MD., MBA, BEVERLY C. PRINCE MD., FACS., NEIL ARNAND, MD., RICHARD KAUL, MD., IN THE SPIRIT OF LEROY BAYLOR, JAY K. 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 NJOKU, BS., RPH., IN THE SPIRIT OF DEBRA LYNN SHEPHERD, BERES E. MUSCHETT, STRATEGIC ADVISORS

THE FUGELSANG ADDENDUM
What is a legitimate medical reason to prescribe an opiate medication today? For pain or addiction? Who decides which patients are worthy of treatment?

This question is not just of academic interest. Any prescribing medical provider today must constantly live in fear that a law enforcement agent somewhere will disagree with the prescriber’s answer to these questions.



there’s never been a war on drugs
On its face it seems simple. If a patient has severe pain a prescriber can treat that pain with medications approved for that purpose. The same for addiction.
Simple right?
Not really.
There is a fundamental disconnect between the way law enforcement sees people, and the way good healthcare providers see them.
In short, law enforcement hopes to find a reason to lock someone up. Making arrests gets them awards and promotions. It’s what they do. They look at people as potential targets of prosecution.


The War on Drugs may have started off trying to protect Americans from the dangers of drug abuse, that statement itself is debatable, but it has clearly ended up destroying many foundational principles of our nation, through policies like civil forfeiture and mass incarceration.



Does five grams of methamphetamine do more harm to someone’s life than a mandatory ten years in prison?
Is the damage to a child’s life when they lose meaningful contact with a parent or caregiver of no value?
These questions can reasonably be argued from both sides, but what cannot be argued is that physicians have an ethical and moral obligation to treat pain and suffering.
The problem is that law enforcement has no such mandate.

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