…RECONSIDER AND GET BACK IN THE FIGHT END THE WAR ON DOCTORS AND DRUGS..
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THE D.E.A. must finally be held accountable
According to the November 9, 2024 article Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients, in Policies For The People .com by American Values;
“..The opioid crisis has led to sweeping policies aimed at curbing misuse and addiction.
However, these one-size-fits-all policies disproportionately harm legitimate pain patients who rely on opioids to manage severe or chronic pain.
Importantly, people are not dying from prescribed opioids used under medical supervision; they are dying from dangerous street drugs, such as illicit fentanyl, which many turn to out of desperation when they cannot obtain their regular pain medication.
These blanket restrictions, enforced by regulatory pressures and stigma, limit doctors’ willingness to prescribe essential medications and force patients into potentially deadly alternatives…”
In fact, it is now accepted science that US government regulation caused the drug epidemic.29
As reported by Ronald Libby 2005 study, “Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers The DEA’s War on Prescription Painkillers,”
Federal authorities indicted a man on Tuesday who stands accused of extorting Rep. Matt Gaetz’s father for $25 million. For months, Gaetz has claimed Stephen Alford, the indicted man, conspired with a former Air Force intelligence officer and a retired DoJ prosecutor to extort his family, amid an ongoing FBI investigation into the lawmaker for sex trafficking.
Libby Report 2005 vs. DOJ/DEA CORRUPTION
“Consequently, many physicians and pain specialists have shied away from opioid treatment, causing millions of Americans to suffer from chronic pain even as therapies were available to treat it.
Libby Report 2005 ….The medical ambiguity is being turned into allegations of criminal behavior,” Dr. Russell K. Portenoy told the Washington Post.
Portenoy is a pain specialist at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, and is consid- ered one of the fathers of opioid pain therapy. “We have to draw a line in the sand here, or else the treatment will be lost, and millions of patients will suffer.”21
D.E.A. IS ABOUT STATS…LAUNDERING MONEY FOR CARTELS
“…The problem was further 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…”
To this day, the DOJ/DEA has done little to curb the theft, loss, & unaccountability of manufacturers & distributors of narcotics while pointing the finger at doctors.
DEA: ARMED WITH BADGES, GUNS, AND PROFOUND STUPIDITY
In fact, the DEA has been solely responsible for the drug crisis this entire time.
Why?
Because they have ultimate control over ALL legal drugs manufactured in the U.S. Since 1973, the DEA has ultimate authority, guaranteed by statute, over how many legal narcotics are manufactured in the U.S.and they regulate or are supposed to regulate every aspect of narcotics.14, 15
What has been responsible for the drug crisis is the tremendous amount of narcotics being stolen or lost, NOT the prescriptions written by doctors.11 Fentanyl has been responsible for many deaths for many years12 but the DEA has dragged its feet addressing it because each time abuse & deaths increase so does their budget, seizures, & forfeitures.
AS ATTORNEY GENERAL GAETZ MUST BEGIN overhauling the agency, or even “getting rid of it entirely ”
According to Leo Beletsky, Law Professor at Northeastern University Law School calls the government crackdown on prescribers getting targetted low-hanging fruit. According to Leo Beletsky and Jeremy Goulka September 2018 article,
“The Federal Agency That Fuels the Opioid Crisis,” in the New York Times: “The Drug Enforcement Administration, the agency that most directly oversees access to opioids, deserves much of the blame for these deaths.
Because of its incompetence, the opioid crisis has gone from bad to worse. The solution: overhauling the agency, or even getting rid of it entirely.”
As the crescendo of a seven-year alleged health care fraud investigation, the trial in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania opened in late April 2024.
The trial of Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD is one of less than two percent of the federal criminal cases filed that ultimately end up in a jury trial. This flawed prosecution targeted an exemplary physician who, like the majority of physicians in the United States, has spent most of their lives in the service of the American people.
He can be reached on LinkedIn, Facebook, X @muhamadalyrifai, YouTube, and his website. You can also read his Wikipedia entry and publications.
WE ARE PHYSICIANS, PHARMACISTS, DENTISTS, NURSE PRACTITIONERS NOT DRUG DEALERS
According to the federal government, a small group of doctors is prescribing hundreds of millions of dollars of such drugs, many of which are finding their way to the black market, contributing to an epidemic of addiction, crime, and death.16
However, PoliciesForPeople.com, Doctors increasingly face scrutiny and legal risks when prescribing opioids, with regulatory bodies threatening fines, license suspensions, and even criminal charges.
This has created a climate of fear among healthcare providers, many of whom avoid prescribing pain medication altogether to protect their careers.
As a result, countless patients with legitimate pain needs go untreated, suffering unnecessarily because doctors are afraid to provide appropriate care.
With fentanyl and other illicit drugs causing the majority of opioid-related deaths, it’s clear that the war on opioids should focus on illicit substances, not the regulated medications that chronic pain patients need to maintain quality of life.
Over the last several years, Federal and State prosecutors have erroneously prosecuted licensed physicians for drug distribution, fraud, manslaughter, and even murder for the deaths of people who misused and/or overdosed on prescription painkillers. If convicted, those physicians are subject to the same mandatory drug sentencing guidelines designed to punish conventional.
stop!!! the continued unjust prosecutions ON HEALTHCARE FRAUD
As reported from KevinMD.com, the September 18, 2024 article, “The Continued Unjust Prosecution of Physicians;”
” The United States Department of Justice is relentless in its effort to unjustly prosecute physicians. In 1996, a cataclysmic and unfortunate set of laws and regulations afflicted the medical community of physicians.
This was none other than the 1996 Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Buried in the bowels of the HIPAA regulation text was a rotten compilation of laws, including the health care fraud regulations (18 U.S.C. §1347)
Since then, the prosecution of physicians has continued unabated to the tune of several hundred per year. The sole purpose of these prosecutions is to create seizures and restitutions that would fund investigative agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General.
the Persectution of Dr. Richard Paulus
The prosecution of Dr. Richard Paulus was the epitome of injustice and demonstrates the imperfection in the concepts of righteousness promoted by the United States Department of Justice in this republic.
This prosecution persisted for more than a decade, during which prosecutors with the stench of mendacity buried evidence exonerating Dr. Richard Paulus, with whom they disagreed on the percentage of coronary artery stenosis and stent placement. Prosecutors presented a small fraction of his cases as evidence of health care fraud (close to 70 cases) while hiding that these cases were only a small fraction of a larger sample of close to 1,100 cases where he performed admirably and conscientiously.
After imprisoning Dr. Paulus needlessly for close to a year and two jury trials, the United States Department of Justice raised the white flag and agreed to dismiss all charges against Dr. Paulus in 2024.
Physicians who are on the receiving end of unfounded and often fabricated accusations and allegations by the Justice Department should strive for experienced legal representation by a criminal defense attorney specializing in health care.
It is the effect of juries that is needed as a check on prosecutorial power.
“The Framers really believed in juries,” Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch noted in an interview with New York Times columnist David French. “I mean, there it is in Article III. There it is in the Sixth Amendment. There it is in the Seventh Amendment.
They really believed in juries, and we’ve lost that.” As a result of such pressure, Gorsuch notes, about 97 percent of federal felony convictions and 94 percent of state felony convictions are based on plea agreements.
Trial by jury, which the Framers viewed as an essential bulwark against tyranny, plays only a marginal role in our current criminal justice system. Physicians, in the current environment, are more likely to be viewed positively by juries in health care fraud trials.”
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