George Bolling, Jr., pharmacist

George Richard Bolling Jr., 54, a pharmacist from Jasper, Ala., and his pharmacy technician, Cassandra Holliman, from Fayette, Ala., were indicted December, 2015 on charges of conspiring to illegally distribute and dispense prescription drugs in Walker, Lamar, Winston and Fayette counties from January 2013 until March 2015. The drugs included oxycodone, methadone, morphine sulfate, hydrocodone, ketamine HCL, zolpidem tartrate, alprazolam and clonazepam. Bolling owned five pharmacies in the state: Berry Discount Apothecary in Berry, Bolling Apothecary in Fayette, Hospital Discount Apothecary in Vernon, Brown’s Discount Apothecary in Jasper and Gateway Discount Apothecary in Double Springs. He was also charged with illegally transferring oxycodone between two pharmacies, directing a pharmacy employee to destroy evidence and 14 counts of using a telephone to facilitate the charged drug-trafficking conspiracy. The charges stem from the long-term investigation that was part of the DEA’s “Operation Pilluted” earlier this year in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. This same operation led the prosecution of three Birmingham-area physicians earlier this year.

This demonstrates how the DEA and US Attorneys are working bigtime to target doctors in more and more states for their assets.

In the course of the Bolling investigation, four other people associated with him have been charged with narcotics offenses.

• Brown’s Discount Apothecary co-owner Joseph Anthony “Stick” Cacioppo, 52, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute ketamine HCL, a surgical anesthetic.
• Teri Jo Tuck, 53, a nurse, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute ketamine HCL pursuant to fraudulent prescriptions.
• Two pharmacists employed by Bolling, Terry Duke, 60, pleaded guilty to distribution and his brother, Ronnie Duke, 63, to knowingly omitting material information from controlled substance records.

“Alabama leads the nation in the number of per capita prescriptions for opioid painkillers,” U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said. “Medically necessary use of painkillers is appropriate, but when a pharmacist violates his medical oath and becomes a drug dealer, preying on prescription drug addicts like any other trafficker in illegal drugs, he should expect the same sort of prosecution.” “Abusers of prescription opiates often shift to heroin abuse, and that trend contributes to our epidemic overdose death rates. Pharmacists should not abuse the trust the community places in them by selling opiates illegally in order to make a profit.”

Again, statements like this are what pave the way for the government to use the CSA against medical professionals, even though the meaning and purpose of the act completely protected medical professionals from attack.

What the government does not accept here, but should be obvious is that squeezing the chronic pain population by eliminating their doctors, and now their pharmacies is what is forcing more people to the street for treatment, and eventually to the use of heroin. Statistics show that in spite of the increased control of prescriptions, drug abuse has quadrupled.

Addendum April, 2021

Mr. Bolling pleaded guilty to two counts of distribution and one count of conspiracy to distribute. Mar, 2017, he was sentenced to 2 years in prison. He was released from prison Feb 1, 2019.  So where are you, Mr. Bolling?  You should be a part of this fight to exonerate yourself, your colleagues, and all of us innocents illegally charged.

In addition to Mr. Bolling, 4 associates also paid the price for copping a plea. Apothecary co-owner Joseph Cacioppo, nurse Teri Jo Tuck, pharmacist Terry Duke, and pharmacist Ronnie Duke.  All of them were sentenced to probation.

Anyone in communication with him, please tell him to work on forgiveness and when he is ready, join us in the effort to restore humanity to the nation.

Addendum from the author:

I have failed in my mission to end these attacks on doctors and pain patients. Through John Bevere’s book The Bait of Satan, I have figured out why—my lack of forgiveness to those who attacked me. As in Mark 11: 24-26:

“Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”

And when you do not do the will of the Father, you are estranged from him and he will ignore you.  So we all must forgive the agents who attacked us in order for things to be made right through any of our works.

Jesus said

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”

But we cannot lay down our lives for God unless we know Him well enough to trust Him. We must have the assurance that He would never do anything to harm us. He always looks out for what He knows is in our best interest. As a nation, those of us suffering from these attacks must understand that we are serving as God’s messengers of love.  We must forgive those who persecute us and love them instead, following God’s will for us. Then and only then will we see fruits from our labor.

So I hope that everyone who has suffered from what happened to the doctor can trust the Lord, forgive those who have hurt you, and help bring this country back to the God-fearing country that our forefathers founded. Then, and only then, can you be a part of the effort to stop these attacks. I look forward to that day.