Michael Fletcher, MD, 61 y/o, an interventional pain medicine specialist in Crestview Hills, KY, 8 miles south of Cincinnati, Ohio, was convicted of illegally prescribing opioids. Does that mean, according to the Controlled Substance Act or the SCOTUS decision in Ruan/Kahn, that Dr. Fletcher was standing on the street corner selling prescriptions for opioids to anyone that handed him the money? No it doesn’t. He was found guilty of illegally prescribing legal opioids to his PATIENTS!!
This egregious conduct of the DOJ is continuing, simply because it can. Usually these cases are brought on simply to provide the US Attorney’s office with a case that will keep their agents employed, paying their salary. They aren’t in any hurry to get to trial, because then they have to start working on another case and do more work. Heaven forbid they have to work!! Besides, it takes time to create a crime that doesn’t exist! This particular case kept them in salary for 5 years.
Interventional Pain Specialists, the clinic of Dr. Fletcher and Kendall Hansen, MD, was raided in February, 2019. As stated in the media,
“Several agents brought out at least half a dozen cardboard boxes and loaded them into two cars. It looked like it was mainly paperwork and files.”
It takes a minimum of 2 years for the “agents” involved to go through these files from any office attacked, to create a case against the doctor of choice. Again, let me stress, the doctor is simply chosen as the target based on how easy it will be to achieve a plea bargain or conviction. It makes no sense, if a citizen is actually committing a crime, that years go by before something is done. But that is the case when doctors are attacked, because there is no just cause in the attack. The government has simply created the agenda and the propaganda to destroy doctors’ lives, and they do it “because they can”.
Dr. Fletcher and his associate, Dr. Kendall Hansen, were both indicted in Nov, 2021, three years after the raid. Showing the collaborative connection of government and medical boards, 5 days following the indictment, the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure restricted both doctor’s licenses, prohibiting them from prescribing controlled substances.
According to his indictment, Dr. Hansen was charged with writing prescriptions for employees and then instructing them to give him the pills. But Dr. Hansen was acquitted of these charges in Feb, 2024.
Dr. Fletcher’s charges were based on three prescriptions for oxycodone. These prescriptions were for patients. But the government used the phrase in the CSA that was actually written to protect doctors from attack, saying they were “not for legitimate medical purpose”. Here is a picture of the actual indictment:
So how did Dr. Fletcher get convicted? His attorney, Mary Rafizadeh, has no documented experience in health-related criminal cases. On the other hand, Dr. Hansen’s attorney, Ronald Chapman, has his total criminal trial experience in health-related issues. We have a page on his company under “Defense Attorneys”. I can guarantee that if your attorney has no experience in this fight, you will lose. The propaganda in the jurors’ minds against opioids will prevail against common sense.
But my purpose isn’t to keep writing posts on doctors attacked. In fact, I’m getting tired of doing this. My purpose is to stop the attacks on doctors, and end the suffering of people in pain who now have a difficult time getting appropriate treatment because of the propaganda against opioids.
Understand this: NO DRUG CAUSES ADDICTION!!
I have the knowledge to combat this propaganda the government is using against us, and have an ecourse to teach others so that more people can fight the propaganda with the truth. We just have to get people interested in stopping the attacks. You can learn what the ecourse includes here: https://sevenpillarstotalhealth.com/bringing-medicine-to-the-21st-century-intro/. So if you are interested in learning the truth, send me a message that you want to take the ecourse. When I get enough interested, I will hold the ecourse. It is self-paced for 6 months. Also, it teaches people how to be their own physician, healing any chronic disease, and preparing for the day when medicine isn’t available except for what you can do for yourself, which I don’t think is too far off.
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 support Dr. Cheeks posting on exposing and revealing the truth of our corrupted system who has been weaponized to go after innocent medical professionals.
The reality of this system has chilling effects. By using the controlled substance act that wasn’t created to be used against doctors, they created the power to incarcerate and destroy innocent medical practitioners and ultimately the practice of good medicine by impacting the ability to prescribe narcotics to those who actually need them. This is the chilling effect! Just yesterday, while being seen in the ER, the hospital wanted me to sign an agreement to use a mild narcotic as a first step. I was there for stroke like symptoms only. So, now the hospitals are on board and has moved to not prescribe narcotics. What is that? The government pushed their agenda by going after innocent doctors to the point that physicians’ decisions on how to treat appropriately has negatively been impacted. Not to prescribe appropriately for legitimate pain and having people agreeing to try a mild narcotic, or non scheduled drug is not practicing good medicine! In other words, will doctors treat legitimate issues with their best decision, because they are licensed to do so, or are they going to precribe safely according to the persuasion of the feds? When will the truth of what is going on cause the physicians to push back and defeat this type of abuse?
A large local hospital sent my nurse friend home after a severe car accident that landed her with a broken xhiphoid process and two broken ribs with nothing more than Tylenol!! What a horrible thing to do! What a huge risk against her health!
What happened to the hippochratic Oath? Why aren’t other doctors pushing back?
Well, we are fighting that system with the hope of exposing the truth of their dark deeds. The Controlled Substance Act was designed to be used against the cartels, Instead, it is used against innocent doctors!! So many doctors are being arrested and facing this kind of system where they ignore the truth! Support writing representatives at the house of representatives. The following address is: Honorable Senator Learned Legislator -Ann Bera, Yadira, Larry Burshon, Scott Des Jarlais, Neal Dunn, Andy Harris, Sonny Jackson, John Joyce, Mariannette Miller Meeks, Gregory Murphy, Raul Ruiz, Kim Schrier, John Berasso, Bill Cassidy, Roger Marshall, Rand Paul, and Mark Green to, HONORABLE SENATOR DOCTOR -(NAME), UNITED STATES SENATE, WASHINGTON D.C., 20510
Additionally, find names of the people on the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Many groups are rising up but many more need their voices heard with action! WE HAVE TO STOP THE CRAZINESS OF ABUSE AGAINST DOCTORS AND OTHER MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS!
Thank you for your comment. I do have a reply, but it is too long and important for here, so I put it in a post. Here it is:https://doctorsofcourage.org/response-to-caroline-connors-comment/.
Dr Fletcher & Hanson were my Dr’s for over a decade. I almost died when given no warning about the indictment on the very day of my appt. I was in their top one percent of pain patients due to severe physical abuse & a 65mph head on crash to which I had been crushed and shouldn’t have survived. I had a very strict protocol w/them, was regularly tested, they also sent me to test me for depression before prescribing. The day will live w/me forever due to the damage this caused me permanently including 3 holes in my eyes during which I got during withdrawal sickness. My prayers are with my former Dr’s & every patient harmed.
Pray that people will get on board getting the CSA repealed so more people aren’t destroyed by government’s illegal use of the law. The answer is available if people would just be willing to learn.