First, What is H. R. 1002?
This is a bill introduced by Rep. Bob Latta, OH 05. What it does is amend the Controlled Substance Act so that the DEA or the Attorney General can permanently debar registrants from manufacturing, distributing, or dispensing a controlled substance.
How does this amendment change the Controlled Substance Act?
On paper, it really doesn’t change anything. The DEA and AG already have the authority to revoke a registration. And once it is revoked, it is rarely re-instituted. But at least the registrant has the option of re-applying. It looks like this amendment would simply give the DEA the right to put applications in the trash without any due process or just cause.
I’m sure, if this bill becomes law, the DOJ and DEA will use it against good doctors who have been attacked for treating pain so that they will never be able to have a DEA certificate again. I also see it as an easy way to simply take away a provider’s ability to prescribe opioids without a trial, simply through administrative decision. Saves the government money, and will eliminate the independent minority physicians that don’t have enough assets to warrant a trial for forfeiture. Their ability to work is ended by administrative decision. Remember, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
What is the Problem?
The problem is that the full support of Congress for this bill shows that the communications being done mean absolutely nothing to our legislators. They still believe in an “opioid epidemic” which doesn’t exist, and that the actions necessary are against prescription drugs. As commented when the bill was passed,
“As we are working to stop the opioid epidemic and continue our efforts to help the people most impacted by this crisis, there is more to be done to ensure people who shouldn’t be able to manufacture, distribute, or dispense a controlled substance are not doing so. The DEBAR Act prohibits bad actors from registering for a controlled substance to help stop the illegal flow of opioids across our country.”
What is the Solution?
Step 1: Stop chasing the rabbits and start spreading the truth.
We have the truth on Doctorsofcourage, and that is the fact that drugs don’t cause addiction. Stop blaming the CDC, illicit drugs, or anything else. People need to understand that NO drug causes addiction, and all the bills targeting prescription drugs or the attacks on doctors will not end addiction, but only cause more suffering. But until they know the REAL cause of addiction, they will continue to blame whatever drug the government targets. And opioids will give them 50 years of targeting if people don’t get on board with the truth.
Step 2: Communicate the truth to the Senators.
If you are a member of Doctorsofcourage, you can reach the health staff of every Senator through the membership site. You can also communicate with the Senators themselves through emails, Facebook, and twitter through a point/click. But you have to be a member to get this. So JOIN!! And get started on the right track to create change.
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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IT sounds like we are in for enhanced abuse at the hands of our uncle. This news, alone, helps to drive the profitability, thereby availability, of the HUNDREDS of fentanyl analogues and research chemicals being hawked on virtually every corner of the internet and on the streets, killing scores of desperate, hurting, naive patients.
Dr Cheek: I am and will remain grateful and available to you and the community at large. Thank you for your tireless efforts.
Blessings, love and light to you
We must get the Controlled Substance Act repealed by spreading the truth–no drug causes addiction.
The government who does think and really says the right thinking mode of these patients need taper time not government in the doctor office but patients that agree need taper time give taper time and watch as the patient does as successful as possible w a taper plan. We prescribe for surgery after care a taper care to measure the pain consistency time of healing why isn’t this happening w patients requesting and or agreeing that believe it’s necessary. This is what the human body handles and is made to handle correctly. It’s about the proper areas of right control. Taper plans kick the word addiction right out of the realm of reach. So the choice of doctor abandoned and cold turkey is a shameful misfortune asking to create an addict. Educationally I’ve found as a patient these are the young doctors out of college w rarely any to no pain experience as most physicians only get about 3 hours of pain education. That’s a laughing stock in comparison to what most patients need.
But bottom line, whatever the plan is should be the doctor’s without threat of going to prison. This will only happen when we get the CSA repealed.