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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., INC.T. SPIRIT OF REV. IN THE SPIRIT OF WALTER R. CLEMENT BS., MS, MBA. HARVEY JENKINS MD, PH.D., IN THE SPIRIT OF C.T. VIVIAN, JELANI ZIMBABWE CLEMENT, BS., MBA., IN THE SPIRIT OF THE HON. PATRICE LUMUMBA, IN THE SPIRIT OF ERLIN CLEMENT SR., EVELYN J. CLEMENT, WALTER F. WRENN III., MD., JULIE KILLINGSWORTH, RENEE BLARE, RPH, DR. TERENCE SASAKI, MD 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., 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
PRE-CRIME SUMMARY REPORT
Our Government is increasingly preoccupied with anticipating threats, and their current use of pre-crime, criminal forensic tools, and theories are the antithesis of the traditional criminal justice system’s focus on past crimes.
Traditionally, criminal justice and punishment presuppose evidence of a crime being committed. This time-honored principle is violated once the punishment is meted out “for crimes never committed.”
PRE-CRIME GENERATES A FAKE SCIENCE (JUNK SCIENCE)
In the movie “Minority Report,” Precrime is the name of a criminal justice agency, the task of which is to identify and eliminate persons who will commit crimes in the future.
The agency’s work is based on the existence of “precog mutants,” a trio of “vegetable-like” humans whose “every incoherent utterance” is analyzed by a punch card computer.
However, Pre-crime ideology intervenes to punish, disrupt, hinder, or restrict those deemed to embody future crime threats. The term precrime embodies a temporal paradox, suggesting that a crime has not occurred and that the crime that has not occurred is a foregone conclusion.
Clarence Darrow
“…putting people into prison will not help sick people get well, whereas giving them medicine will…”
Pre-crime in criminology dates back to the positivist school in the late 19th century, mainly to Cesare Lombroso’s idea that there are “born criminals” who can be recognized, even before committing any crime, based on specific physical characteristics. Biological, psychological, and sociological forms of criminological positivism informed criminal policy in the early 20th century.
For born criminals, criminal psychopaths, and dangerous habitual offenders, eliminatory penalties (capital punishment, indefinite confinement, castration, etc.) were seen as appropriate.
POLICY ANALYSIS: RONALD LIBBY N0. 545
Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers The DEA’s War on Prescription Painkillers
by Ronald T. Libby
“SUICIDES, THE MAJORITY OF WHICH INCLUDED PEOPLE UNDER AGE 59. ABOUT HALF WERE WOMEN, AND ALMOST ALL WERE WHITE. SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUNDS WERE THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF DEATH”
ARTICLE BY
DR.SALLY SATEL, MD
DOCTORS PRESSURED, PATIENTS SUFFER
“The consequences of this new OPIOPHOBIA have fallen on the shoulders of patients experiencing acute or chronic pain, many of whom have found themselves abandoned by healthcare providers in the name of preventing opioid abuse and addiction.
Dose tapering of chronic-pain patients with commercial health insurance and Medicare Advantage has increased substantially in recent years, and a quarter of those patients have had their doses tapered more quickly than medically recommended, according to a 2019 study by researchers at the University of California, Davis.
In 2017, a survey of 3,100 chronic pain patients by the non-profit Pain News Network revealed that 71% could no longer obtain necessary opioid medication from a doctor or had to settle for a lower dose.
“SUICIDE IS PERHAPS THE MOST DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCE OF THE CRACKDOWN ON OPIOID PRESCRIPTIONS.”
Eight out of 10 said their pain and quality of life had worsened, and more than 40% said they had considered suicide as a way to end their suffering. Even some patients with sickle cell disease and terminal cancer — subgroups that the CDC explicitly excluded from the reach of the guideline — were not immune from painful dose reductions or complete cutoffs.
Many of these abandoned patients have become “pain refugees,” a tragic cadre of individuals who chase the dwindling numbers of physicians still willing to prescribe even modest doses of opioids. Traveling hundreds of miles every few months to obtain care in another city or state, they often drain their limited incomes on the odyssey.
Those who remain with their local physicians often try to supplement their reduced doses by adding alcohol or benzodiazepines for pain relief, thereby inadvertently enhancing the odds of an overdose. (In fact, the lethality of such combinations has created an exaggerated sense of the inherent lethality of opioid pain relievers, which, on a population level, are rarely the sole cause of a fatal overdose.)
Other pain patients who’ve had their doses tapered or cut off have replaced opioids with large amounts of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents such as Advil, acetaminophen, or aspirin, which puts them at increased risk of liver injury, renal damage, and bleeding from the upper gastrointestinal tract. Still others report being required to undergo invasive procedures, such as implantation of medication pumps, in order to manage their pain.
Some patients have become so desperate for relief that they’ve moved to inherently riskier drugs after losing access to prescription opioids. “The VA cut my pain meds cold turkey after over 25 years,” a veteran told Fox News. “I now buy heroin on the street.”
Though the percentage of such patients is small (perhaps 5% over five years, according to estimates from SAMHSA), turning to street pills has proven dangerous. The Drug Enforcement Administration warns that sales of counterfeit pills — consisting of fentanyl pressed into pill shapes with familiar tablet markings — have been linked to overdose deaths nationwide.
Suicide is perhaps the most devastating consequence of the crackdown on opioid prescriptions. Case studies documented by physicians and personal tragedies memorialized on social media give the strong impression that poorly treated pain has pushed some patients into taking their own lives.
Since 2011, Anne Fuqua, a retired nurse and chronic pain patient, and Terri Lewis, a doctor of rehabilitation medicine with Southern Illinois University, have maintained a registry of people who took their own lives following physician-initiated changes or cuts in their doses.
To date, they have confirmed 584 suicides, the majority of which included people under age 59. About half were women, and almost all were white. Self-inflicted gunshot wounds were the most common cause of death, followed by hanging, carbon-monoxide poisoning, and jumping off a bridge. One veteran in New Jersey set himself on fire.
UNSCIENTIFIC BOGUS DEA-DOJ GUIDELINES HAVE SENT HIGHLY TRAINED MEDICAL DOCTORS AND PHARMACIST TO PRISON
After 2016, advocacy organizations such as Human Rights Watch and the American Cancer Society called on the CDC to revise its recommendations.
To the agency’s credit, it responded. In 2019, the centers issued a press release. They published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine stating that their guideline had been sorely misinterpreted as a federal mandate to reduce patients to 90 MME.
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https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/follow-science-opioids
The Food and Drug Administration followed suit. Citing reports of “serious withdrawal symptoms, uncontrolled pain, psychological distress, and suicide” among patients inappropriately cut off from pain relievers, the agency issued a memo requiring changes to opioid labels so that they specifically warn of the risks of sudden and involuntary dose tapering. HHS also produced a guide on careful tapering practices.
Unfortunately, the corrected record has not had much impact. “The clarification did not filter down,” observes Kate Nicholson, a Denver-based civil rights attorney.
“Patients are still being forced to have doses reduced or discontinued and are experiencing outright abandonment by their clinicians. And doctors still fear law enforcement.”
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