Bitter Pills - A Tale of Sex, Drugs and Deception [the Rottschaefer Trials]

Bitter Pills - A Tale of Sex, Drugs and Deception (full text) Charlie Deitch; Pittsburgh City Paper; 2006-05-25. Posted: 2006-05-28. Source

Excerpt: “Prosecutions aren’t always necessary to have a chilling effect, DeLuca says. The government’s MO, he says, it to have agents raid doctors’ and send them target letters. Some doctors stop prescribing [opioids] at that point…

Others decide, as DeLuca says he did, that they can’t operate under the fear and still treat patients correctly. ‘I got out of clinical practice because I couldn’t sit across from someone in extreme pain, have the ability to ease their pain, [and] do nothing because I was afraid of the government.”

See also: Third Circuit Denies Dr. Rottschaefer Appeal (PDF) – Circuit Judges Rendell, Becker, and Greenberg; 2006-03-03.

Sad: Dr. Rottschaefer Appeal Denied - Radley Balko; The Agitator; 2006-04-28

Rottschaefer’s Drug Verdict Fought - Jason Cato; Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.; 2006

The Outrageous Case of Dr. Bernard Rottschaefer - Radley Balko; The Agitator; 2005-08-30

Sex, Lies, and OxyContin – John Tierney, Editorial, Page A21, New York Times, 2006-01-24

Selected Major Media on the War on Doctors and the Pain Crisis, 2005 - 2006

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