Doctors: New Target in the War On Drugs?

Doctors: New Target in the War On Drugs? (full text) Wayne J. Guglielmo; Medical Economics; 2006-05-19. Source

Excerpt: Does the US Attorney General and the prosecutors who work for him have the right to decide whether a doctor is practicing good medicine? Stutsman thinks not. “As we showed in the Oregon case, the Controlled Substances Act was never intended to allow an unelected law-enforcement official to make subjective medical determinations,” he says, adding that federal prosecutors are now getting criminal convictions based on a civil standard of care. “If these doctors are guilty of malpractice, that’s one thing—but malpractice isn’t a crime.”

See also: The Amazing Vanishing DEA Pain FAQ – Drug War Chronicle, #358; 2004-10-15. Assisted-Suicide Ruling May Affect Painkiller Cases – Marc Kaufman; Washington Post, A04; 2006-01-22. Posted: 2006-01-22.

DEA’s ‘One-tenth of 1 Percent’ Myth – Ron Libby; talk given at the Drug Cops and Doctors conference; Cato Institute; 2005-09-09.

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