A LOOK BACK AT AMERICA’S WAR ON DRUGS
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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., IN THE SPIRIT OF LEROY BAYLOR, JAY K. JOSHI MD., MBA, AISHA GARDNER, ADRIENNE EDMUNDSON, ESTER HYATT PH.D., DR TERENCE SASAKI, MD., 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
“..And those who survived had a sense of purpose..”
….Dr. Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist who survived the Holocaust, observed that those who could find meaning in their suffering, even in the brutal concentration camps, were more resilient and had a better chance of survival.
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The Institute for Justice’s Project on the Fourth Amendment has strived to protect one of America’s foundational property rights: “…The right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures. As the government has grown in size and scope, judges have invented one exception after another, poking holes in the Fourth Amendment until it resembled Swiss cheese..”
However, many Agency assertions underlying present policy are now known widely to be misrepresentations of fact.
In United States vs. Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD, those representing the government (messed with the wrong Aly) met a conscientious, law-abiding physician who was also a tenacious advocate who believed in his profession, morality, and innocence.
“I was educated in the United States at top-tier training institutions such as the University of Virginia and the National Institute of Mental Health…
The government investigators and prosecutor believed that this minority Muslim physician of Syrian origin, who is solo practicing, would quickly relent and submit to a plea agreement.”
Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD, was Acquitted.
The government prosecutor added a litany of erroneous, misleading, but scandalous, and headline-grabbing analytics suggesting that on some days in 2015, services were billed for more than 24 hours of work and that my practice sent bills on deceased Medicare beneficiaries after the date of death.
WHEN THE DOJ-DEA MESSED WITH THE WRONG MUHAMAD ALY
I am the president of the local psychiatric society and hold five active board certifications in Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Consultation Psychiatry, and two in Addiction Medicine.
More fundamentally, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Veterans Administration, and key law enforcement authorities are fully aware of this reality and have continued defending themselves against public scrutiny or challenge, whether fair or foul. [1] [2]
Arbitrary Thresholds and Doctor Criminalization: The MME metric has led to the establishment of arbitrary thresholds, which are used to judge whether a doctor is overprescribing opioids. This has created a climate of fear among physicians, who are now hesitant to prescribe opioids even to patients in genuine need. The fear of exceeding these thresholds and facing legal repercussions has resulted in doctors undertreating pain or even abandoning their long-term pain patients. The sources describe this situation as turning U.S. medicine into a “dystopian farce,” where doctors are criminalized and patients are left to suffer.
Neglect of Patient Individuality and Context: The MME metric fails to account for the significant differences in how individuals respond to various opioids. Factors like metabolism, route of administration, and individual sensitivity can dramatically alter the effects of a given opioid dose. However, the MME system treats all opioids as functionally equivalent based solely on their perceived potency relative to morphine. This disregard for individual variation and context reduces patients to mere numbers on a chart and ignores the ethical principle of considering both the intended and unintended consequences of medical actions.
Richard “Red Lawhern:
It can also be argued compellingly—as the author has, in multiple published venues that the recent “National Opioid Settlement” is as bogus as a three-dollar bill.
Timothy Earl King Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications – Justia Patents Search
Its associated injunction, published secretly with the collusion of 30+ State Attorney Generals, is destroying patient lives and pharmacy businesses by creating entirely unjustified shortages of legitimately prescribed controlled substances (opioid analgesics and others). [5]
explaining the mindset of Dr Timothy Kings, md thru the google yank Invention of rick & Morty
The Human Cost of dr. tim kings’ fraudulent patent
Blue Lotus, MD, writes in Doctors of Courage article titled “The Power and Limitations of U.S. Government Artificial Intelligence in Predicting Opioid Overdose in the Year 2025:”
“As U.S. Government artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a staple in U.S. healthcare, it brings powerful capabilities to predict high-stakes outcomes like opioid overdose.
a)By analyzing millions of patient records, a recent U.S. Government study identified key factors that predict the likelihood of overdose in patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain.
b)These factors include a history of overdose, high dosages, use of multiple prescribers or pharmacies, fentanyl prescriptions, substance use disorders, and mental health diagnoses.
c)U.S. Government AI algorithms can integrate these insights, offering U.S. healthcare providers advanced tools for identifying high-risk patients.
“Patent registered by “expert witness” Timothy Earl King should be scrutinized by public officials for potential COI & violations of due process.”
Recent healthcare studies findings align well with the bias of AI algorithms
Yet, while these predictive models seem promising, understanding their limitations is essential for making the most effective use of Government healthcare AI.
Recent healthcare studies’ findings align well with the bias of AI algorithms, which integrate numerous complex factors to reveal falsely nuanced risk profiles.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TIMES ANY FLAWED ALGORITHM CAN ONLY GENERATE ARTIFICIAL STUPIDITY
For example according to the U.S. Government, patients with a prior history of overdose have a nearly sixfold higher risk of another overdose. Similarly, a daily opioid dose of ≥90 mg morphine equivalent nearly triples overdose risk, and prescription patterns involving multiple prescribers or pharmacies signal an elevated risk as well.
Each of these data points might seem like individual risk factors, but AI models can combine them to create an integrated, personalized, false risk profile.
Most importantly; A strength of healthcare AI-based predictive models is their ability to adapt dynamically to complex clinical scenarios, making them particularly powerful in managing patients with multifaceted disease risk profiles.
By analyzing the combined impact of multiple predictors from prescription patterns to mental health diagnoses and substance use history, these Government AI models seem to offer a robust, adaptive approach.
This false dynamic capability may be entirely useless in clinical practice, where many factors, like a new substance use disorder or a change in prescription dose, may decrease risk in non-linear ways.
“…IGNORANCE IS NOT A LUXURY WE CAN AFFORD…”
My Name is Norman J. Clement. I am a Pharmacist and a Dentist. I currently live in Tampa, Florida. I graduated from Florida A&M University (Pharmacy) and the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. I have a Master’s from the University of Florida College of Dentistry and advanced training in Forensic Dentistry.
I am a Victim of the DEA Targeting of my Pharmacy, Pronto Pharmacy LLC when my business was raided and looted by the DEA and the Florida Department of Health.
I was in business for over 10 years, and we were a Specialty Pharmacy working with Chronic Pain Care Disease Patients. I am a Pharmacist and dentist, NOT A STREET DRUG DEALER.
I fought and lost everything, and with the help of my Brother, a former 35-year Veteran of the Detroit Police Department Walter Clement, we exposed the DEA as a Criminal Enterprise of the United States Government.
PENZA’S SUCCESSFUL OUTSTANDING LEGAL REPRESENTATION DELIBERATELY UNDERMINED BY AN INCOMPETENT ADMIN JUDGE AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF PHARMACY
I nor any member of my family was ever Charged or indicted, and the equipment was quietly returned to me through my Attorney, Dale Sisco of Tampa, FL. I was represented by Atty Vito Penza (239) 799-8486 on my pharmacy board and administrative complaint side, who prevailed but whose legal work was thoroughly undermined by Fl., Admin Judge Lindsay Bogan, and Florida Board of Pharmacy, who ridiculously reprimanded Pronto Pharmacy, in the Boards moment of incompetents.
I never lost my Pharmacy License, but I was forced to close my Pharmacy after 12 years in business after the DEA broke up and destroyed my Computers and Monitors and stole nearly 60 thousand dollars in cash and control medications. This was a looting operation.
By Atty. Mr. Sisco told me they were going to indict my entire family—my wife Evelyn, our two sons, who are Pharmacy techs, and Our Daughter, who is also a Pharmacist (FAMU GRAD)—on Conspiracy of Drug Trafficking and then use Civil Asset Forfeiture to confiscate all our Property.
Mr. Sisco further said the System was rigged, and we couldn’t prevail. Because I was an excellent writer, we created the blog youarewithinthenorms.com.
As it turned out, the work from our blogs has freed many wrongly incarcerated physicians (some serving life terms) from prison. More providers have prevailed in criminal courts, where they have been found not guilty.
Our Blog, youarewithinthenorms.com, helped initiate the Supreme Court Case Ruan vs. the United States, which was a 9-0 decision in favor of Medicine. The Case of Pronto Pharmacy went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, where it was docketed Case No. 22-6000 Norman J Clement pro se vs. Drug Enforcement Administration. Unfortunately, it was not granted Cert.
“…the only way to know humanity is to study mankind…”
Dr. Clarence Verdell, MD, Clinical Psychiatrist
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A Call for Justice
Behind these legal maneuvers is a human tragedy. Dr. Akula, now incarcerated in Memphis, TN, has seen his life and career dismantled. His dedication to providing palliative care through Canon Hospice, LLC, has been overshadowed by what appears to be a campaign of legal persecution rather than prosecution.
Dr. Shiva Akula’s ordeal should shock us all into action. It’s a stark reminder of the power dynamics within our legal system and the potential for abuse when that power is wielded without conscience. As this case progresses, one can only hope for a thorough investigation, a fair retrial for Dr. Akula, and reforms to ensure such judicial travesties are never repeated. The public’s trust in justice demands nothing less.
The integrity of our courts hangs in the balance, begging the question: how many more lives will be ruined by unchecked prosecutorial overreach?
Conclusion
Now, millions of Americans are suffering because they aren’t able to get their pain under control.26 They are resorting to illegal/street narcotics,27 going international, or even committing suicide.28 It is now accepted science that US government regulation caused the drug epidemic.29
The Money-Addicted DOJ, DEA, & SAMSHA are now going after Chain Drug Stores to blame them for the crisis.30 But they know that the Chain Drug Stores aren’t responsible either & shutting them down won’t solve the drug crisis because prescription drugs are not responsible.
As we have discussed, the DOJ, D.E.A., and SAMSHA are responsible for this crisis and repeatedly taking it to the bank.
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REFERENCES:
1. Lawhern RA, “Doctors Prescribing to their Patients Did Not Create the US Opioid Crisis”, American Council on Science and Health, January 9, 2023, https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/01/09/doctors-prescribing-their-patients-did-not-create-us-opioid-crisis-16787
2. Lawhern, RA, “US Opioid Guidelines 2022 – More and Less Than Meets the Eye” Medical Research Archives of the European Society of Medicine, Vol 8, No 11 (2023) August issue. https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/issue/view/155
3. Lawhern, RA, “Oversight on Revision of US CDC Opioid Guidelines: A Process Pre-Destined to Fail”. Nursing and Primary Care. 2023; 7(5): 1-10. https://www.scivisionpub.com/pdfs/oversight-on-revision-of-us-cdc-opioid-guidelines-a-process-pre-destined-to-fail-2988.pdf
4. Lawhern, RA, “Everything the government thinks it knows about the opioid crisis is wrong”, KevinMD, July 1, 2023,
5. Lawhern, RA, and Nadeau, SE, “Relationship Between Opioid Prescribing and Overdose Mortality”, Daily Remedy, October 27, 2024, https://www.daily-remedy.com/relationship-between-opioid-prescribing-and-overdose-mortality/
6. Irving, P, “The National Opioid Settlement Is Causing Drug Shortages” Pain News Network, September 11, 2023, https://www.painnewsnetwork.org
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