Alan Nelson, MD, 79, is a family practice/internal medicine doctor in East Norwich, NY. At least that is what he was for 52 years until he was forced by the government to surrender his medical license for prescribing controlled substances. Is that any way to treat a long-term, respected physician who has devoted his live to helping people?
So what was his crime? According to the government, it was the standard “prescribing ‘to a patient’ without a medical purpose”, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(C). But the “to a patient” clause should have immediately made him exempt from attack using the Controlled Substance Act.
That doesn’t stop the DEA/DOJ today. Law doesn’t matter. They can do whatever they want and get away with it. This attack and conviction was even after the SCOTUS Ruan/Kahn decision. So Dr. Nelson was forced to plead guilty to one count of unlawful distribution of oxycodone and was sentenced to six months in prison and three years of supervised release. He also must pay a $20,000 fine. At least his sentence isn’t too harsh. It’s just his reputation that is destroyed.
The media help the government through their spewing false information. The Long Island News report stated
“A long-time Nassau County doctor was ordered to close his practice and surrender his license for overprescribing highly addictive pain pills.”
Says who that pain pills are highly addictive? If they were, then a large proportion of the nation would be addicts. Rarely is a person taking an opioid for pain turned into an addict.
They make an even more threatening comment that pain patients need to pay attention to when they say:
“despite all the new regulations in place, some doctors are still able to skirt the laws and unlawfully distribute opioids.”
Pay attention to that comment, folks. I predict that by 2030, unless people get behind our efforts to get the CSA repealed, there will be no opioids in America.
Then, to top it all off, pharmacies are now being forced to play policemen or they get charged as well, as shown in the recent post Minority Professionals Attacked. In this case, Rite Aid sent a letter to Dr. Nelson stating that it would “no longer fill prescriptions from your office for Schedule II, III, IV and V controlled substances” because of their concern about increased reports of prescription drug abuse, especially oxycodone.
New York’s I-STOP Act is meant to prevent overprescribing. The act requires doctors to electronically prescribe controlled substances to help them keep track of a patient’s drug history, evaluate their patients’ treatment with controlled substances and determine whether there may be abuse or non-medical use. Pharmacies also have access to the I-STOP database. At this time, though, they are not mandated to inform the state of what they consider “overprescribing”. I imagine that will change in the future.
Addiction specialist, Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds, states
“If a prescriber’s pattern changed dramatically, there are folks from the state health department that come out and have a conversation and say did your population change, did your practice change,”
So the government does have access to the prescribing of a doctor.
Dr. Nelson pled guilty on June 2, 2023. He was sentenced on Feb 7, 2024. The Board of Medicine then ordered the surrender of his license to take place on April 24, 2024. His office is now closed and up for sale.
I believe Dr. Nelson to be another minority physician taken out by the government, as he is a graduate of the Universidad Autonoma De Guadalajara Facultad De Medicina in 1972.
Linda Cheek is a teacher and disenfranchised medical doctor, turned activist, author, and speaker. A victim of prosecutorial misconduct and outright law-breaking of the government agencies DEA, DHHS, and DOJ, she hopes to be a part of exonerating all doctors illegally attacked through the Controlled Substance Act. She holds the key to success, as she can offset the government propaganda that drugs cause addiction with the truth: The REAL Cause of Drug Abuse.
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Good morning. It has been almost 10 years since I was arrested and recently tried to get my record expunged. I found out that my felony offense for distribution of CDS is not expungable in the state of New Jersey. Since 90 percent of employers do a background check I am ineligible for any meaningful employment
I’m not sure how you thought you could get it expunged. That is done only by a change in the law, which is what we are going to do with the repeal of the CSA. We will get all of us exonerated and compensated. All you can get with an existing felony is a pardon, which means you are still a felon, and the President isn’t pardoning any of us. So what you need to do, Dr. Evans, is join Doctorsofcourage and get the CSA repealed. Take my ecourse starting again in July, which is free for you. Learn what has to be taken to Congress. Then, if you can, join us in Washington to talk one-on-one with the legislators or their health staff.