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Jeffrey Bado, DO: Biography from Prison

by Linda Cheek, MD | Mar, Mon, 2026 | Convicted physician | 0 comments

I was born August 27,1955 prematurely (that would be being born earlier than the calculated Estimated Date of Confinement). My first month of life outside my mother’s womb was in an isolation device called an “incubator” (imagine a fancy, large fish...

War on Drugs: Empowerment of Criminal Organizations

by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Fri, 2026 | Convicted physician | 0 comments

How the Controlled Substances Act Empowers Criminal Organizations — and Why It Must Be Repealed For more than fifty years, the United States has waged a “War on Drugs” under the authority of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970. Promising to suppress...

War on Drugs: Effects on Public Health

by Linda Cheek, MD | Dec, Fri, 2025 | Convicted physician | 0 comments

Repealing the Controlled Substances Act: How Ending the War on Drugs Would Improve Public Health For over fifty years, U.S. drug policy has been dominated by the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970—legislation that created the legal framework for the “War on...

Repeal the CSA: Economic Impact

by Linda Cheek, MD | Dec, Mon, 2025 | Convicted physician | 2 comments

How Repealing the Controlled Substances Act Would Revitalize the U.S. and Global Economy Few federal laws have shaped modern society as profoundly as the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970. Conceived at the height of the Nixon administration’s “War on Drugs,” it...

War on Drugs Social Impact #1

by Linda Cheek, MD | Oct, Mon, 2025 | Convicted physician, War on Drugs | 0 comments

We must end the War on Drugs. To do that, the Controlled Substance Act and all related laws must be repealed and all drugs must be legalized. Even government officials are starting to recognize that fact, they just aren’t acting on it. Why? They are missing the most...

The Eighth Circuit Ruling on Dr. Joseph Parker is the Gregson v. Gilbert of Our Century

by Neil Anand, MD | Aug, Thu, 2025 | American holocaust, Convicted physician, Government Misconduct, War on Drugs | 0 comments

When Physician Champions Fall to Machine Learning Algorithms How algorithmic surveillance has transformed American medicine into a digital slave ship The Eighth Circuit’s decision in United States v. Lonnie Joseph Parker represents a watershed moment in American...