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THE AFGHANISTAN BILLION DOLLAR ERADICATION DECEPTION: BLAME THE DOCTORS
drug dealers wearing diplomatic coats and law enforcement badges
We have asserted that the $8.3 billion settlement paid by Purdue Pharma served as a calculated distraction to obscure the U.S. government’s significant failures in counternarcotics operations abroad. Specifically, the article points to data showing that the dysfunctioning incompetence of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wasted over $8.6 billion in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2017, a period during which the nation achieved record levels of opium production.
These findings contend that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and DEA found it strategically easier to blame the domestic opioid crisis on doctors and pharmacists rather than address international corruption and ineffective foreign policy.
According to the Sigars Counter Narcotics Report, since 2002, stemming opium poppy cultivation and drug production in Afghanistan has been an important, though not primary, goal for the United States, its coalition partners, and the Afghan government. While very little Afghan heroin comes to the United States, the Afghan drug trade has undermined reconstruction and security goals in many ways, including by financing insurgent groups, fueling government corruption, eroding state legitimacy, and exacting an enormous human and financial toll.
THE UNITED STATES’ WAR ON DRUGS IS A CRIME
According to the 2005 Executive Summary by Ronald T. Libby, Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers: The DEA’s War on Prescription Painkillers:
“The medical field of treating chronic pain is still in its early stages. It was only in the late 1980s that leading physicians trained in managing the chronic pain of terminally ill cancer patients started to recommend that the “opioid therapy” (treatment involving narcotics related to opium) used on their patients also be applied to patients suffering from nonterminal conditions. These new therapies proved effective, and prescription pain medications experienced a significant increase in sales throughout the 1990s.
However, opioid therapy has always been controversial because of the habit-forming potential of some prescription pain medications, which caused many physicians, medical boards, and law enforcement officials to be cautious in using them to treat acute pain in non-terminal patients. As a result, many physicians and pain specialists have avoided opioid treatment, leaving millions of Americans to endure chronic pain even when therapies that could help were available.”
These problems were 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.
From fiscal year (FY) 2002 through FY 2017, the U.S. government allocated approximately $8.62 billion for counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan. This included more than $7.28 billion for programs with a substantial counternarcotics focus and $1.34 billion on programs that included a counternarcotics component.
Despite this investment, drug production and trafficking remain entrenched. Afghanistan is the world’s largest opium producer, and opium poppy is the country’s largest cash crop, with an estimated annual export value of $1.5 billion to $3 billion in recent years. In 2017, poppy cultivation and opium production reached record highs. U.S. counternarcotics activities in Afghanistan have thus failed to produce lasting reductions in both cultivation and production.
DEA is incompetent and its actions have fueled the drug crisis
Dr. L Joseph Parker, MD, before commencing an 87-month U.S. Federal prison sentence, highlighted “a fundamental disconnect between medical science and law enforcement.” His and others’ research cited and more than suggests that restricting legitimate access to prescription pain medication has the perverse effect of accelerating opioid-related deaths by pushing non-medical users toward dangerous black-market substitutes like heroin and fentanyl acetate. These findings conclude that medical professionals are being targeted because they inadvertently compete with the DEA’s own illicit drug supply chain.
According to Nabarun Dasgupta, Ph.D., MPH, Leo Beletsky, Jd, MPH and Daniel Ciccarone, MD, MPH, in a February 2018 article OPIOID CRISIS: No easy Fix to Its Social and Economic Determinants; pointing out
“..It is well understood by a law professor and medical practitioners that the DEA is incompetent and its actions have fueled the drug crisis..”
The September 2018 article in the New York Times by Leo Beletsky and Jeremy Goulka, “The Federal Agency That Fuels the Opioid Crisis,” states that the Drug Enforcement Administration, which oversees access to opioids,
“deserves much of the blame for these deaths” due to its incompetence. The United States Drug Enforcement Agency has controlled and permitted non-medical illegal opioid drug substances to flourish in some neighborhoods, destroying the viability of these communities…
..the “DEA is the Federal Agency that has fueled the drug crisis in America and around the world..”
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