DEA Mum [2 Years After] Raid on Dr. Nelson’s Office

Drug Agency Remaining Mum About Raid on Doctor’s Office (full text) - Diane Cochran; Billings Gazette; 2007-04-19. Source.

Excerpt: “At the two-year anniversary of a federal raid on his office, a Billings doctor has not been charged with a crime or regained his authority to prescribe certain medicines… Critics have accused the federal agency of putting physicians who prescribe narcotic painkillers out of business as a way to justify its war on drugs.”

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 1 year later. No Charges 2 years later. No Comment at all.

Two years later DEA it is off the case, and U.S. Attorney 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 professional and financial life turned upside down by the initial federal attack on his pain medicine practice, is now paralyzed having suffered a neck injury in a MVA this past year.

A class-A drug war nightmare from beginning to end. A doc ruined, patients brutally abandoned by state interference in medical practice, all for… nothing. God help us all.

This is how the Chilling Effect works - this is how you get an entire community of docs to serve a police agenda to the detriment of patient care with nothing more than innuendo and an ‘inquiry.’

See also: DEA ‘Silent’ 1 Year After Office Raid, Doctor [Nelson] Says - Diane Cochran; Billings Gazette; 2006-04-29

Why Is The DEA Hounding This Doctor [Richard Nelson]? - Margot Roosevelt; Time Magazine; 2005-07-17

DEA Raid on Doctor [Nelson] Brings Pain Wars to Montana - Drug War Chronicle #392; 2005

WAR ON PAIN SUFFERERS #1 – Montana 2005: the War on Sick People archives

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