Charles Brown, CFNP

Charles Brown, Jr, CFNP, indicted on 4 counts, was convicted in August, 2012 and sentenced to 60 months (5 years) in prison. Mr. Brown was attacked for his legitimate work at Chantilly Specialists, owned by Mr. Paul Baccone, also convicted. Charles was the lead nurse practitioner in the practice. He began work at Chantilly Specialists in July 2009, supervised by Dr. Carol Currier. Dr. Joel Match took over in this position from Dr. Currier in 2011.

For the sensationalism, all the press reported about Brown was: “Evidence showed that Brown provided 600 customers more than 800,000 oxycodone-based pills, including 14,400 to a single addict.”  Now if we look at the numbers here, over the 6 years covered by the indictment, that means each customer got an average of less than 1 pill per day.  Not bad for a pain management clinic, really. Are they charging him with inadequate treatment?  I don’t think so. I think they are trying to make the prescribing look like it was too much.   Even the 14,000 pills prescribed to a single addict computes to only 6/day, which if Percocet was the medicine, could be an appropriate amount. Here the fault would lie with government persecution and propaganda against long-acting opioids, forcing a lot of practitioners to prescribe short-acting low-dose opioids for chronic pain. But that isn’t Mr. Brown’s fault.

“Outside the Course of Professional Practice”

The use of “outside the course of professional practice” is being used in all cases to prosecute legitimate practitioners, Charles Brown being one of many. This is the way the Justice Department has gotten around the exemption of medical professionals in the Controlled Substance Act. This problem needs to be addressed and corrected by Congress, but they do nothing as well. Everybody’s in it for the money.

So why are they really going after a nurse practitioner?  My guess is he didn’t take their offer of testifying against Mr. Baccone. So they also persecuted him to make him an example.

Mr. Brown, we would love to know more about your case.

Addendum 2021

Charles Brown was released from prison in 2016.  He is possibly even back in practice now.  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 Mr. Brown 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.