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This blog post from youarewithinthenorms.com details the experiences of Dr. Christopher Russo and other pain management doctors facing legal action from the DEA.
It argues that the DEA’s actions, driven by flawed policy and a focus on asset forfeiture, have unjustly targeted physicians and hindered proper pain treatment.
The post cites the Libby Report (2005) to support claims of DEA misconduct and misrepresentation of the opioid crisis. Furthermore, it alleges a history of this type of targeting dating back to the Harrison Act of 1914, accusing the DEA of acting as “morality police”.
The author advocates for increased awareness and reform of DEA practices.
FROM THE LIBBY REPORT 2005 “find a new front for the War on Drugs”
” In 2000 and 2001, the Department of Justice, which administers the DEA, gave the agency a highly critical rebuke and asserted that the Drug Enforcement Agency’s goals were not consistent with the President’s Federal National Drug Control Strategy.
The DEA would need to find a new front for the War on Drugs, one that could produce tangible, measurable results (1)
However, this situation has raised ethical and security concerns, prompting calls for increased regulation and oversight in developing and deploying artificial intelligence systems.
This was the first time that the DEA had grouped a legal prescription drug with illicit drugs, though it wouldn’t be the last. Government officials like the D.E.A.Commissioner at the time, Asa Hutchinson, have gone on to make frequent public statements putting OxyContin in close rhetorical proximity to cocaine, heroin, and other drugs with a proven record for generating public fear.”
The 2005 Ronald Libby Report, Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers The DEA’s War on Prescription Painkillers
pointed out;
“The problem was exacerbated when the media began reporting that the popular narcotic pain medication OxyContin was finding its way to the black market for illicit drugs, resulting in an outbreak of related crime, overdoses, and deaths.
Though many of those reports proved to be exaggerated or unfounded, critics in Congress and the Department of Justice scolded the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for the alleged pervasiveness of OxyContin abuse.” The shortage of pain doctors can, in part, be explained by the relatively new, dynamic nature of pain medicine as well as society’s aversion to narcotics.
It wasn’t until the 1980s that physicians who specialized in opioid treatment for pain associated with terminal cancer began to advocate the same treatment for nonterminal chronic pain patients.12 The fact that the field is so novel has not only prevented physicians from seeking it out as a specialty, it initially caused much debate within the medical community.
The idiot prosecutors in Detroit made a big deal about the number of pills that six pain doctors prescribed in years, and the Detroit media clutched their pearls & smeared us nonstop.
Though many physicians now approve of opioid therapy for nonterminal chronic pain, there was some initial resistance from both inside and outside the medical community. “There’s still a fear of opiates,’’
“Clowns All The Way Down,”
THE CLOWN SHOW: HOW THE D.E.A. MISLED AMERICA FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS ON HUMAN FUNCTIONS AND DISEASES OF ADDICTION FOR A BETTER PAYDAY!
drug dealers. Those highly publicized indictments and prosecutions have frightened many physicians out of the field of pain management,
C.R. Russo MD:
Untreated pain is a serious problem in the United States.
I was tied up all day today. I will read them now we’re
At 6:00 am on 12/6/18, as I was staring down the FBI agent’s Glock that was pointed at my right between my eyes, I knew instantly that they fucked up. Fucked up big time.
Unfortunately, we had to endure 3.5 years of @USAO_MIE legal mumbo-jumbo lawfare, but once we were in court, we shoved their entire bullshit case right up their ass. They could not, in their wildest dreams, imagine the size and scope of the ass-kicking that would come 3.5 years later in Judge Stephen Murphy’s courtroom.
“Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers: The DEA’s War on Prescription Painkillers. The medical field of treating chronic pain is still in its infancy. It was only in the late 1980s that leading physicians trained in treating the chronic pain of terminally ill cancer patients began to recommend that the “opioid therapy” (treatment involving narcotics related to opium) used on their patients also be used for patients suffering from nonterminal conditions. The new therapies proved successful, and prescription pain medications saw a huge leap in sales throughout the 1990s. However, opioid therapy has always been controversial. The habit-forming nature of some prescription pain medications made many physicians, medical boards, and law enforcement officials wary of their use in treating acute pain in nonterminal patients.”
The idiot prosecutors in Detroit made a big deal about the number of pills that six pain doctors prescribed in years, and the Detroit media clutched their pearls & smeared us nonstop. But at trial, we showed that it was less than three pills per day per patient on average. Not Guilty
We had to sit back for 3 1/2 years and keep our mouths shut while they strutted around and acted like they were something.
“The primary narrative directing opioid policy is that the overdose epidemic is driven by clinician overprescribing, creating patient addicts.
Narcotic Analgesics (Opioids) have been used after surgery for hundreds of years without problems. What justifies the enormous suffering we see and hear about regularly now? If people don’t want them, that’s fine. But please stop torturing patients.
As @UrWithintheNorm always says, “if you don’t fight, you can’t win”.
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LIZA DUNN, MD., ON C.R. RUSSO MD IN HIS OWN WORDS
“You motherfuckers have no idea what’s coming.”
The Garland Prosecutors go after older docs for more money to grab on forfeiture before the trials.
In the 2005 Libby Report;
“..Because prescription narcotics are legal and regulated, the DEA can easily monitor the way physicians prescribe them. Unlike illicit drug dealers, most physicians are law-abiding, legitimate professionals. That also makes them easier targets...”
C.R. Russo MD:
They further smeared, insulted, and trivialized our profession. From the very start, back in December 2018, they acted like their case was a slam dunk and treated us like we were dangerous criminals from the very beginning.
I can guarantee you that we worked harder in a week than they did in a month. Despite being infinitely more competitive and rigorous than theirs, they had no respect for our education, training, and professional medical practice. Advanced training took years to complete successfully and came with tremendous opportunity costs.
And then, even after Enduring their incompetent investigation and dog and pony show trial, which were acquitted by a 12-person federal jury, they still stole 50% of the money they seized from us 3 1/2 years earlier.
“..Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress..”
“..And those incompetent clown Federal investigators and prosecutors didn’t lose a f..king thing..”
According to The Libby Report, the Controlled Substances Act;
“..all monies or other things of value furnished by any person in exchange for controlled substances are subject to forfeiture. (109)
The money from these seizures gets split between the law enforcement agencies making the bust, and the remainder goes to the DOJ’s Forfeiture Fund, where it’s used to coordinate more investigations. In 2002, drug asset forfeitures totaled $441 million.
In 2001, the DEA shared $179,264,498 of its asset forfeitures with local and state police departments. (110) The total forfeiture fund was worth about $1.2 billion by 2002. (111)
The DEA distributes the vast majority of asset forfeiture money to state and local law enforcement agencies who work with the agency on drug cases.
It is a perverse system that allows law enforcement officials to keep the assets of suspected drug defendants for their own, local police departments..”
C.R. Russo MD:
“That does not make any fucking sense to anybody. That’s nothing more than legalized theft.
And those incompetent clown Federal investigators and prosecutors didn’t lose a fucking thing. They can walk away and pretend like nothing happened.
But we know what happened. They got their asses kicked up and down Judge Stephen Murphy’s courtroom by 4 Pain doctors who never spent a single day in law school.
We intimidated McMillion and Helms:
“..During the actual trial and testimony, we focused on the actual science, medicine, and care of the actual chronic pain patients and their symptomatology and pathology..”
I can guarantee you that we worked harder in a week than they did in a month.
Why did I have to sell my home and my three investment properties, which I poured heart and soul into, to pay to defend myself against a prosecution team that couldn’t even get my name right on the documents they were sending my defense attorney?
For the “crime” of practicing the specialty of which I was fully licensed and trained?
The whole time, I was thinking to myself,
“You motherfuckers have no idea what’s coming…A criminal trial that turned out to be nothing more than a seven-week tutorial for the DOJ prosecutors and the FBI on the specialty of Anesthesiology and the practice of the sub-specialty of Interventional Pain Medicine and its nuances.”
But they assumed we were a bunch of nobodies who acquired our degrees from crackerjack boxes and then decided to organize with each other to recklessly and haphazardly prescribe scheduled two opioids.”
They also claim that we recklessly and haphazardly prescribed benzodiazepines and ” other types of sedative drugs, “ which, BTW, never happened.
Their so-called EXPERT pain medicine physician from NYC, who testified against us, Said the same thing in his report and testimony against us.
The DEA and CDC use false statistics and data about addiction to justify coercing MDs into withholding safe and effective opiate medications.
Unfortunately, the doctors who know better are under threat, and worse, many believe the lies.
Poisoning from non-medical street drugs and suicides are skyrocketing.
We were required to pay hundreds of thousands to defend ourselves against an illegitimate “lawfare” federal prosecution by U.S. assistant attorneys in Detroit who were wholly exposed in court as having no idea what they were doing.
the morality police
The Field of medicine is undergoing a slow erosion. Disinformation occurs when medical community members warn providers of DEA manipulation of medical protocols, but they are ignored or purged from further public discussion while the government’s false narrative is sustained and reinforced by the D.E.A.
This is a tactic that goes back to the 1930s of the federal drug police making their case, taking down well-known physicians to stop others from breeding more junkies with their prescription pads.
According to the Libby Report;
The first federal law to criminalize the non-medical use of drugs was the Harrison Act of 1914, which outlawed the nonmedical use of opium, morphine, and cocaine.25
Advocates of Prohibition supported the law.26 Section 2 of the Harrison Act made it illegal for any physician or druggist to prescribe narcotics to an addict, effectively turning a quarter-million drug-addicted citizens and their doctors into criminals.27
The DEA is still acting as the morality police.
drug epidemic beginning in Appalachia and spreading to the East Coast and Midwest, infecting suburban, urban, and rural neighborhoods across the country
brief background
” By 1916, 124,000 physicians; 47,000 druggists; 37,000 dentists; 11,000 veterinarians; and 1,600 manufacturers- ers, wholesalers, and importers had registered with the Treasury Department, as required by the Harrison Act. (28)
Almost as soon as they had registered, hundreds of doctors were arrested and prosecuted for prescribing narcotics to addicted patients. (29) During the first 14 years of the act, U.S. attorneys prosecuted more than 77,000 people, primarily medical professionals, for violating the act. (30)
Between 1914 and 1938, about 25,000 doctors were arrested under the terms of the Harrison Act for giving narcotic prescriptions to addicts. (31) Many were eventually put on trial, and most lost their reputations, careers, and life savings.
By 1928, the average sentence for violating the Harrison Act was one year and ten months in prison. (32) More than 19 percent of all federal prisoners were incarcerated for narcotics offenses. (33)
Clinics closed down, and physicians had little choice but to abandon thousands of addicted patients. A black market for narcotics soon arose.
With the endorsement of powerful public figures such as Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson (the “Great Destroyer” of alcohol and narcotics addiction and the Anti-Saloon League’s highest-paid publicist), and Harry J. Anslinger (the first commissioner of narcotics and former assistant commissioner of Prohibition), the U.S. government inaugurated- ed an aggressive, unprecedented pursuit of physicians and their addicted patients.”(34)(35) 
The aggressive targeting of medical professionals who prescribe pain medication has often been fueled by misleading narratives about the opioid crisis, conflating legitimate medical practice with illegal drug trafficking.
This campaign, McQuade warns, risks driving a wedge between healthcare providers and patients, undermining trust in the medical system and causing harm to those suffering from chronic pain.
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25. The Harrison Narcotics Act (1914), PL. 223, 63rd Congress, December 17, 1914.
26. Harry G. Levine, “The Secret of Worldwide Drug Prohibition,” The Independent Review 7, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 3. See also Eric Sterling, “Drug Policy Failure at Home,” http://www.lightparty.com/foreignPolicy /DrugPolicyFailureATHome.html.
27. Hohenstein, p. 253. See also Musto, 1999, pp. 181–82.
28. Musto, 1999, p. 121.
29. Rufus B. King, The Drug Hang-Up: America’s Fifty- Year Folly, 2nd ed. (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1972); and “The Narcotics Bureau and the Harrison Act: Jailing the Healers and the Sick,” Yale Law Journal 195, pp. 784–87.
30. Hohenstein:, p. 245.
31. Edward Jay Epstein, Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in America (New York: Verso, 1977), p. 104.
32. Musto, 1999, note 6, p. 368; and Treasury Department, “Hearings before the House Appropriation Committee,” Appropriation Bill 1930, November 23, 1928, p. 473.
33. King, p. 786.
34. Musto, 1999, pp. 59, 67, and 211.
35. Musto, 1999, p. 255; The Controlled Substances Act is Title II of the Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. The CSA initiated the War on Drugs and started a national campaign against illicit drugs and associated crime. The CSA gave the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs the authority to regulate legal prescription drugs. When the Drug Enforcement Agency was created in 1973, it acquired the BNDD’s authority.
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108. Alberto R. Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General, Statement before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Science, the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies, March 1, 2005, http:// http://www.justice.gov/ag/testimony/2005/022805fy06ag housetestimonyfinal.htm.
109. 21 USC Sec. 853:1–2.
110. Drug Enforcement Administration, “Asset Forfeiture Benefits Local Police Departments,” news release, March 25, 2003, http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/ pubs/states/newsrel/kentucky032503p.html; Hutchinson, April 11, 2002, p. 6.
111. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, Audit Division, “Assets Forfeiture Fund and Seized Asset Deposit Fund Annual Financial Statement Fiscal Year 2002, Report 03-20,” June 2003, p. 1.
112. The National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators was founded in 1987 to investigate and prosecute pharmaceutical drug diversion. There are about 2,400 members of NADDI representing local and state and police departments, DEA agents, insurance investigators, drug companies and pharmacies’ loss prevention departments, and state medical board and pharmacy regulatory agents who investigate and prosecute the diversion of prescription drugs. NADDI has 14 state chapters in Alabama, California, the Carolinas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New England, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. NADDI hosts training seminars to coordinate methods of investigating and prosecuting drug diverters.
113. Dennis M. Luken, lecture on “Pharmaceutical Drug Diversion Schemes,” National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators Training Conference, July 24, 2003.
114. Greg Aspinwall, “Diversion of Non-Controlled Drugs,” National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators Training Conference, July 24, 2003.
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