Seventy year old Dr. John Littleford, DO, a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation specialist and owner of Pain and Injury Clinic in Parker, Colorado in the outskirts of Denver has been charged in federal court with conspiring to distribute excessive amounts of narcotics, according to reporter Mike Barz in his article written April 12, 2016. He’s been accused of writing illegal prescriptions and working with a pharmacy that looked the other way, according to federal authorities.
According to federal law, a doctor with a DEA certificate for controlled substances can write any prescription for any controlled substance. How can the feds claim any of his prescriptions are “illegal” as long as he holds a DEA certificate?
Court records show that from April 2010 to November 2012, Littleford is accused of writing new prescriptions for opioids for patients who should have had pills left over from the previous prescriptions. The pharmacists are accused of conspiring to fill those prescriptions.
Does that make the prescriptions “illegal?” It shouldn’t.
Littleford is charged with two counts of distributing a controlled substance which resulted in death. He faces up to 20 years in prison. The indictment also alleges that these two individuals received illegal amounts of Oxycodone.
There is no federal law to my knowledge that makes any amount of a controlled substance “illegal”. This type of charge, if it is true, is a new one that doctors need to get their associations on board against. If the Feds can start dictating amounts of medications without going through medical school, who is the doctor?
Also charged were Dr. Littleford’s office manager, Dianna Smithling, and two pharmacists, Stanley Callas and Scott Eskanos, co-owners of Crown Joint Pharmacy in Parker and Sky Ridge Pharmacy in Lone Tree. His alleged co-conspirators faces charges of conspiring to distribute controlled substances to money laundering and face up to 15 years for those charges.
Another article, written by Jennifer Kovaleski on May 1, 2016 was headed “Mom blames Parker doctor for son’s death, and overprescribing oxycodone pain killers”
Now with a header like that, you are really prejudicing the jury pool. But for sensationalism, reporters go for that sort of thing. In her article, she quotes the mother blaming the doctor for the medication. But she was the one giving it to him. If she saw his mentality or respirations were being compromised, she should have held the dose. It seems like a little guilt here by the mother being redirected to the doctor.
This case happened in 2012. The mother even states that the pills became the only way her son could deal with his back pain after trying physical therapy, acupuncture and other methods. That sounds like good medical management to me, not bad.
The DEA said Dr. Littleford, his office manager and two other pharmacists are accused of giving pain killers and other drugs like Fentanyl patches to numerous patients in quantities that would lead to addiction.
Now this is where the courts and the jurors need to understand the truth. Pills don’t cause addiction. For information on what does, go to my post on my website www.sevenpillarsofhealth.com.
Update
Dr. Littleford was finally forced to take a plea in December, 2018 and was sentenced to prison in December, 2019. He was sentenced to 7 1/4 years in prison. His release date is 7/31/2024.
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.
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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I was a patient of Dr. Littleford’s for years. He helped me recover from a car accident. He was a great doctor. He is not guilty of these charges, I know that. I was writing to him in prison back in 2020 during the pandemic but have lost touch with him and can’t find him. He was released early – he had COVID. He’s lucky he survived, the prison he was in had an epidemic breakout of COVID. I sure wish I could find again. I pray he’s still alive. His family and friends largely abandoned him. I couldn’t – I wouldn’t be walking without him. Thank you for standing up for him.
Well stayed true comments. We do need a Compassionate care act to protect medical providers. Also making our malpractice insurance companies step up to fight for us with their law expertise should be a benefit we pay for in our coverage. I just don’t understand how our professional conduct compares to illegal drug cartels. We Heal not Deal!
Let’s start by saying that this so called war on drugs was meant to be aimed at kids and people who gain doctors trust while pretending to be in pain. Many great doctors have been lured in by these addicts whom went as far as presenting fake MRIs and so forth. I am a parent of 2. My son is 36 and my daughter 33, personally I would be furious if any doctors were to prescribe them any type of narcotics. Honestly I think I would be more upset with my kids for using and abusing a doctor with good intentions than I would the doctor who perscribed. Thank God I have not had this problem with my kids. After all this war was supposed to be targeted at the above said.
That being said is in no way meant that no younger persons are excluded from pain. As we the legitimate suffering know disease nor pain discriminate. It’s there it’s real and the alternatives have been exhausted. We would love to magically wake up and be “normal” feel well and be in no need of pain or the perscribed medications but for so very many that will never happen. Why was pain management implemented if the doctors fear treatment for pain outside of gadgets?
Now for many of these patients whom suffer daily their very problems of pain originated from blotched failed surgeries but this is acceptable the doctors whom screwed many up to begin with are still in practice? We are allowed the poison of chemo and radiation to our bodies but no relief from the ravaging effects of the treatments.
If the government wants to make doctors accountable than make them fix or deal with the problems that were created by their very hands, stop allowing these surgeons to pass the buck onto our MD or pain management.
To all the legitimate chronic pain suffering the burden now rests upon our weary souls to stand up and correct this failed war waged on opoids. It will be a rough road and by no means is it fair but we need change. They try to convince us that we are addicts whom misuse our medications but we know this is not truth.
Let us all stand up and demand some type of compassionate care act including use of opoids narcotics whatever they may want to call them.
I am 64, failed spinal fusion 1989 in which the screws were not aligned correctly, stage 4 cancer, never doctor shopped or abused my prescriptions same pharmacy for 35 years. I do not deserve this treatment as many others. Until you walk in our shoes of endless needless suffering please do not call us addicts or try to convince others that we are addicts. Pain just as cancer does not discriminate so before you are so hasty to judge and condemn us fix this failed war declared upon us. Your day of suffering will arrive and I hope you are treated with more compassion and dignity than what has been bestowed upon us.
Suicide rates are way up social security claims on the rise. This is a major fail on our governments part. In NJ the big issue of Chris christy who had a friend who abused his medication and consumed alcohol with them is not our fault! Your friend should have been more responsible Mr.Christy stop punishing the legitimate because your friend was an addict, we are not!!
Thank you for your heartfelt and true comments. I hope you can find appropriate help for your conditions. You might want to check out my other website, http://www.sevenpillarstotalhealth.com. Even stage 4 cancer can be cured. You are right about conventional medicine not having the answers. But that is ignorance from not being taught, rather than choice.