Here is an example of how the government misconstrues the truth to present an addiction format to the jury in trials of doctors in line with their addiction propaganda.

In November, 2022, after the Ruan/Kahn decision, 58 y/o primary care physician Joseph Parker, MD of Texarkana, AR was still convicted of prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate purpose. And all of the charges related to real patients. In their press release, the government’s description of the charges was “two counts of Distribution of a Schedule II Controlled Substance Without an Effective Prescription and two counts of Distribution of a Schedule V Controlled Substance Without an Effective Prescription.”

What does “without an effective prescription” mean?  I think prescriptions were written that were filled.  Is this just another DOJ creating crimes that don’t exist?

Anyway, here is his explanation of what transpired in his case and how the government plays the propaganda:

     The orchestration of my destruction was masterful. From making sure the media was on hand as my clinic was raided with machine guns to the press conference.  Where they claimed I was a cash only clinic, giving millions of opiate dose equivalents and gallons of cough syrup to people, “with no legitimate medical problem”.  They knew this was not true.  That my clinic only accepted patients for opiate therapy who had already been diagnosed by specialists and other medical professionals, and that two of the five patients they took to trial had insurances my clinic had accepted for their treatment.  They told the media they knew that I was an “over prescriber” as soon as they checked the PMP. How is this possible without first checking how many of those patients had cancer, or sickle cell or other palliative conditions exempting them from the CDCs original misguidance?

We were the last primary care clinic in the area willing to accept patients on chronic opiate therapy and continue their care.  Several oncology offices sent their patients to us, as did the HIV program.  We reached out to the media but none of them wanted to correct such a sensational story.  They didn’t care if it was true or not. A million morphine dose equivalents then became a million pills in the papers, and by the time we came to trial the stage was set.  My colleague and wonderful friend was in his eighties and did not survive to trial.  My attorneys did not understand the practice of medicine or the actions of opiates and seemed afraid to call witnesses.  I took the stand in my defense by everything I had done to help those suffering from chronic pain and addiction was twisted with such malignant skill that it was stunning to watch. Only accepting patients on opiate therapy was twisted to wanting people already on opiates to keep them addicted, getting certified to treat addiction and opening the first Suboxone clinic in our city was just a way to make more money, to “profit off the opioid crisis”.  The prosecutor belittled the hundreds of hours of extra training I had taken to make sure I knew the best evidence-based practices. “You’re real proud of that little certificate from Harvard, aren’t you?”, she literally sneered.

They also blamed me for the death of a patient who died in police custody, twenty hours after he had last taken his medication.  He had died from heart failure during continuous seizures when his benzodiazepines were withheld by the jail staff, but the federal government ignored the autopsy report and argued that medications I had prescribed had “contributed” to his death, and that he had died of an overdose.  A medical examiner was blocked from giving full testimony but was able to say that our medications had nothing to do with the patient’s death.  I was found not responsible for his death but guilty for treating him at all.

He had come to me, having been on opiate therapy for a decade from a crushed lumbar spine with metal implants, right after his right hand was crushed in a large steel sliding door at a prison where he was a guard.  One finger had been partially pulled off and the traction had injured his shoulder and neck.  He was on his way to see the neck surgeon when he was pulled over for weaving as he tried to navigate and follow written directions.  He told them his back problems made it impossible for him to pass a field sobriety test.  They found one antidepressant pill out of its bottle and arrested him for that.

When he first came to me, he was on three opiates and two benzodiazepines. Knowing he had a long road ahead of him I cut that back to two and one respectively, and I had reduced his pain mediation sixty days and his benzodiazepines thirty days before his death.  It was medically impossible for this man to overdose on the lowest dose of medication he had been on in a decade after not taking any for twenty hours.  It did not matter.  I was convicted for treating him at all. They said that I ignored the risk of addiction, using as proof my noted in his chart where I spoke of my concern for addiction but belief that the benefit of continued treatment outweighed the risk. Somehow my reaching a conclusion the DEA does not like was “willful blindness”.

They also had a pain expert from out of state to testify that my concern was clearly proof that the patient HAD addiction, and that the patient taking mediation “holidays” to prevent too much tolerance and dependence was also proof of addiction.  That a silent paging system we used so we didn’t have to shout our patient’s names was “outside the usual practice of medicine” as he had not seen it used at any other clinic.

As ridiculous as all of this may sound to medical professionals we are not being judged by medical professionals at trial.  It takes four years of intensive training and study before you can begin to have a valid opinion on who needs what medication.  Not even nurses and pharmacists, despite their skill and training, are allowed to make these decisions.  But the DEA and federal prosecutors feel that they can do this better than the doctors.  And they have become masterful at deceiving twelve lay person with no foundation in the science that WHATEVER you did… was wrong.  The textbooks cannot come to trial with you and your experts will be disqualified. Just ask Dr. William Bauer, who had a dozen physicians, scientists, and pharmacists all willing to testify for him, yet all disqualified as experts by the court.  But the government’s experts.  They can argue one thing to convict one doctor and then the exact opposite to convict another, making hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process.  The US Supreme Court has said that the DEA does not have the right to dictate the practice of medicine.  That may be true.  But they clearly have the power.  And with federal attorneys having absolute immunity they can do and say whatever they want to ensure conviction.  No one can stop them.  There is no doctor in America today treating pain or addiction that cannot be convicted under the criteria I was prosecuted.  As the DEA terrorizes physicians into refusing and firing imperfect patients, which is all of them, those suffering go to the streets for relief and end up getting fake tablets laced with fentanyl.  This drug is pouring across our borders because instead of doing their actual job of stopping these drugs at the border, the federal government is too busy micromanaging medical care.  As pain prescriptions have dropped since 2012 the death rate has been climbing.  And it will continue to climb. They may not prosecute that many doctors but the effect on physicians is universal.  Don’t treat pain.  Don’t treat addiction.  It’s not safe.

My original post on Dr. Parker can be seen HERE.

So what should be the message here?

1. Anyone the government targets today will be convicted through the propaganda created by the government. Truth does not prevail.
2. We must get immunity removed from government officials who break the law to convict innocent people.
3. Until we get the Controlled Substance Act repealed, no doctor should prescribe a controlled substance.
4. Anyone indicted for prescribing should get me on their expert witness list. I can offset the propaganda with the truth. And if the judge does not allow my expert testimony, you have a straight line appeal.
5. We must get the CSA repealed and the answer is here on Doctorsofcourage and also sevenpillarstotalhealth.com, especially through the ecourse.