The DEA is a clear and present danger to
licensed professionals of color and small business owners.
Authors:
Dr. Norman J. Clement
Dr. Jack Folson
Richard C. Clement
Walter R. Clement
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
The DEA’s mission is to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations
of the United States and bring to the criminal and civil justice system of the
United States, or any other competent jurisdiction, those organizations and
principal members of organizations involved in the growing, manufacture, or
distribution of controlled substances appearing in or destined for illicit
traffic in the United States; and to recommend and support non-enforcement
programs aimed at reducing the availability of illicit controlled substances on
the domestic and international markets.
However, the Office of the Inspector
General reports the inadequacies of the DEA in combating diversion, the major
issues are the illicit drugs and not the prescribed medications. So once again the DEA is off target by
targeting Healthcare Providers while largely ignoring the low level diversion
actors in the street.
Healthcare Providers are assumed by
DEA to be lacking due diligence if they don't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
that they have addressed any red flags but in court hardly ever produce evidence
of real diversion but rely on suspicions and glitzy presentations.
In fact DEA is the single most government agency who
tactics have the increase cost of medication and healthcare all across America
by mis-interpreting purpose and roles of medications needed to treat acute,
chronic, neuropathic and psychological, pain. The DEA has been waging a
campaign of disinformation to sway the public to a point prescribed narcotic
analgesic medications are in deed drugs, dangerous drugs who dosages are red
flags indicating abuse and trafficking contributing to the so called
Opiod crisis around America.
Notably, DEA’s evidences always rely upon execration on numbers of “pills” and
street language such as “pill
mills,” “Holy Grails,” and “Cocktails,” not on medical disease states or
clinical conditions. Prosecutors, have found these forms of distortion,
redefinition of medical procedures effectively sells juries. Furthermore, Judges often instruct the juries to
ignore any clinical presentation or will not allow such testimony on the
record.
The damage to a Healthcare Providers and the chronic
pain patient populations is devastating and the DEA never takes into account
the clinical needs of the patients. It's
as if they have criminalized pain management without the benefit of clinical
knowledge.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SO CALLED OPIOD EPIDEMIC
The idea medically prescribed opioid medications
(MPOM) or narcotic analgesic medications (NAM) cannot be use for chronic pain
are simply not true and is misleading. Further the idea these medications are
not to be use in combination with other medications such those use to relieve
anxiety, mood disorders or sleep are further in error.
MPOM or NAM,
when prescribe and use for long term
chronic pain will result in dependency. It is the role of the Pharmacist to
ensure the patient who is being treated for chronic pain on how to use of this
class medications correctly to ensure their safety.
These medications are safe when used correctly and
like any medications control or non control when taken beyond their therapeutic
dose are dangerous and may result in death. More importantly, to this date
unless is the case of extreme anaphylaxis there is no case in the literature
when any individual has succumbed to death when given a therapeutic dose.
In fact other medications cause a higher level of
mortality in therapeutic doses. Warfarin
for example has an extremely narrow therapeutic index and cranial hemorrhage is
somewhat common. Antibiotics are too
widely prescribed and create a need for newer and stronger antibiotics and will
be the death of all of us eventually.
Anti-Neoplastics are extremely toxic and
what is considered a “cure” is remission for just 5 years The CDC is
well aware of these dangers.
DEA’s RAID ON PRONTO PHARMACY
Tampa Florida
More-importantly nothing within the
actions of the DEA were created by statutory rulings. Nothing!
If you examine the assertions made by the government agents you will
clearly see that this agency created and designed a plan to attack our
society. The intent of this law implies
that it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally— to
manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture,
distribute, or dispense, a controlled substance; or to create, distribute, or
dispense, or possess with intent to distribute or dispense, a counterfeit
substance. Pronto Pharmacy is a licenses
Community Pharmacy.
In their search warrant the
government agents wrote, Pronto Pharmacy engaged in manufacturing-controlled
substances. This erroneous assertion is far from true in the that the
Government agents crafted a law to achieve their objectives. Wherefore in fact, the Government agents said
that Pronto Pharmacy was compounding medications. This act within Pronto Pharmacy is perfectly
legal and supported by law. Laws created
by the legislative processes.
Therefore, how then can a government
agency act in this manner and secure a warrant based on false pretenses and
carry out their acts through the courts systems. Why?
Because we as American people have an inherited trust of the DEA.
When ever has one heard the DEA acted
improper… I’m sure never. This
is to be a trusted agency yet they have
violated your trust.
1. They said and determined that Pronto
Pharmacy engaged in manufacturing and compounding-controlled substances.
2. Individual patient drove many miles
to fill prescription outside the standard of care in Florida. There is absolutely
NO laws that supports the DEA’s
assertions.
CONCLUSION
We should fear this agency simply
because they are acting alone to shift the directions of our constitution and
act upon their ideological beliefs. Yet,
no matter how authoritative the OIG sounds and the DEA looks, neither have
implemented the most effective techniques to minimize prescription narcotic
analgesic diversion, which could be easily inserted into the prescription
filling process.
So the question remains.
What are the DEA agents actually up to?
Could they actually be a clear and present
danger to public safety?
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