Posts Tagged With: media smear

Full text of blog post about arrest of Gore’s son on drug charges: Al Gore’s son was arrested for possession of prescription drugs. The timing was uncanny. Just as it was appearing Gore might announce his candidacy, we hear the news that his boy has a drug problem. Next come the predictable barrage of articles about how his arrest highlights the problem with prescription drugs. Does anyone wonder why members of Congress have been reluctant to take up the insanity of this drug war….it is simply too personally dangerous to do so. — This is Rush Limbaugh redux. I can’t …

Thanks to Alex Coolman of the most excellent Drug Law Blog for snagging yet another AG Tom Corbett war on doctors case that had slipped by me. (See: More Indictments, Arrests of Doctors). I think this makes three unrelated doc scalps for Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett in a neat seven days. Wow. Impressive.

Blog post about Pennsylvania Attorney Tom Corbett’s attacks on substance misusing physicians are drug criminals. What Pennsylvanians need to understand is that AG Tom Corbett is mis-informing them and playing them for fools in a venal and socially destructive game, that at once creates, and then plays off of, Americans’ trumped-up fear of a ‘prescription drug crisis’ for which there is very little scientific evidence. What Pennsylvanians need to understand is that it is bizarre and unnecessary and a complete waste of taxpayer money for their Attorney General to attack what are, at worst, alleged substance misuing physicians who pose …

Blog post about the indictment of Dr. Jennifer Zampogna, and the initial media smear mounted by Attorney General Tom Corbett of Erie county, PA. One would have thought we\’d seen how low Attorney General Tom Corbett could go, in the Dr. Paul Heberle case, but apparently not. This Zampogna case is embarrassing – a pathetic joke. Here is the MAIN charge, the best they got… After that, the charges get too silly to bother with here. He\’s kidding, right? The good people of PA are going to pony up for a hideously expensive criminal investigation and trial to convict a …

Blog post reviewing the bizarre developments in Salt Lake City in the wake of the federal raid on Dr. Warren Stack. Much effort is being put into registering “addicts” into government clinics. Zero effort has been made, or concern expressed, for the abandoned pain patients who are to be treated as “prescription drug addicts who could turn to heroin at any time” according to the District Attorney.

Blog post about the case of Dr. Volkman, a highly credentialed and experienced physician, a vocal critic of the DEA, who has been actively fighting them in the courts for a year and a half. But this isn’t part of the Associated Press press coverage which have been pure drug war trash journalism giving a very one-sided prosecutorial view of the case. This post provides background on Dr. Volkman and the history of his struggles with the DEA, all ignored by the Associated Press.

Blog post about the raid on pain doctor Warren Stack and the initial media smear which is analyzed as a common tactic in the War on Doctors. Links to other examples of this are given.

Excerpt from this blog post about the Dr. Nelson case, Billing MT: “DEA raids doc – seizes patient records – suspends doc’s DEA license forcing abandonment of patients – conducts an ‘inquiry’ that ‘focused on diversion’ that results only in media smear of doc, and loss of livelihood. No Charges 1 year later. No Charges 2 years later, and DEA is off the case, and U.S. Attorney Alme has ‘no comment’. Meanwhile, patients suffered, of course. ‘Innuendo and an investigation’ are all the government needs to close down opioid pain management in entire communities. The Nelson case is a travesty.”

Reporter Mike Tobin has done his readership a great disservice in his glib and shallow effort. The article is entirely one-sided; the pure, unadulterated prosecution line. No context given regarding the Pain Crisis or the War on Doctors. Utter. Trash. Journalism. Dr. Fisher was an expert witness for the defense. Please see his comments linked to below.