Archive for: April 2006

DEA ‘Silent’ 1 Year After Office Raid (full text) Diane Cochran; Billings Gazette; 2006-04-29. Source Comment(DeLuca): OK. DEA raids doc – seizes patient records – suspends DEA license forcing abandonment of patients – conducts an ‘inquiry’ that ‘focused on diversion’ that results only in media smear of doc. No Charges. One year later DEA it is off the case, and U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme has ‘no comment’. Meanwhile, patients suffered, ‘We weren’t treated good by doctors at the hospitals, DEA has really intimidated [them].’ The doc’s life is upside down, his practice a shambles. This is how it works – how DEA can …

Drug Crime [Not Prescriptions] Is [Major] Source of Abused Pain Meds (full text) D.E. Joranson and A.M. Gilson, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 30(4): 299-301, 2005. Posted: 2006-02-21. Comment (DeLuca): SIX MILLION DOSES A YEAR are diverted at a level having NOTHING to do with pain management and EVERYTHING to do with the UTTER FAILURE of DEA to fulfill their MISSION to secure supplies of medically needed opioid medications. DEA has mounted an offensive against physicians as the “primary” source of ‘abused’ drugs while at the same time concealing data exposing massive diversion higher up the supply chain THEY control. WHERE IS …