US Attorney Tolman - Lazy Shark

US Attorney Tolman - Lazy Shark; Alex DeLuca; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Pain Relief Network; 2008-01-18.

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See also:
Feds Seeking Link Between Doc, OD’s - Carlisle; 2008-01-17
AG Tom Corbett’s Mini Reign of Terror - DeLuca; 2007-07-01
Utah/Feds Boldly Move Toward Solution to Addiction - DeLuca; 2007-05-31

U.S. Attorney for Utah, Brett Tolman, is a lazy shark who just found out how fun and profitable and safe and easy it is to get medically lay juries all sorts of dazed and confused. He got the taste blood chomping into Dr. Warren Stack, and is now descending into a feeding-frenzy. Declaring “an increased emphasis on investigating bad doctors or bad pharmacists or bad health practitioners who are abusing the system,” Tolman now has 63 year old Dr. Ray Taylor undergoing the obligatory initial media smear.

Tolman has discovered what AG Tom Corbett (Pennsylvania) already knows very well, shooting doctors caught in the Controlled Substances Act barrel is just too easy, too profitable, too fun to forgo. (See: Corbett’s Mini Reign of Terror)

Tolman’s statement in Feds Seeking Link Between Doc, OD’s, “[H]onest doctors who might be duped by patients who fake ailments to gain prescriptions do not have to be concerned” reminds me of prior DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson’s empty reassurances to the medical community uttered in an address to the American Pain Society in 2002:

I’m here to tell you that we trust your judgment… The DEA does not intend to play the role of doctor… We will not prevent practitioners acting in the usual course of their medical practice from prescribing OxyContin for patients with legitimate medical needs. We never want to deny deserving patients access to drugs that relieve suffering and improve the quality of life. [Orient, 2003][o03]

Ahh, those familiar, soothing words.

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