Nearly 200 HCP are arrested or sanctioned every year Many are targeted based on how successful their practice is and the location of that practice 100% are in solo or small group practices and largely practicing in marginalized communities Currently around 300 are in federal or state prisons and around 3000 now have a criminal record whereas nearly 20,000 have been sanctioned and stripped of their hard-earned career
The criminalization of healthcare is two-fold:
- Faulty algorithms concocted by the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Task Force which allow the task force to investigate the assets, ethnicity, race, practice setting, and clientele before recommending them for persecution 100% have been in solo and small group practices and serving marginalized communities 20% are brown or black compared to well under 10% of practicing HCP
- Faulty laws causing drug prohibition which always leads to increasingly lethal street drugs The DEA is now arresting a record number of HCP for prescribing FDA approved medications under the guise that the HCP KNEW THEY WERENT NEEDED HCP are trained to always TRUST OUR PATIENTS! Even PI trained to detect liars, can only do so <50% of the time! PROHIBITION NEVER WORKS!! The only answer to remove medical tyranny is to DECRIMINALIZE ALL DRUGS! By providing a safe supply of all abused drugs it eliminates the market for lethal illicit drugs! So the proposed policy is to 1. Decriminalize all drugs
- REPEAL THE CSA
- Mandate MAT for true OUD- not for people benefiting from pure agonist opioids
- STOP ARRESTING AND INCARCERATING HCP WHO PRESCRIBE CONTROLLED MEDICATIONS
- RELEASE ALL HCP FROM PRISON- revoking their license and DEA would have been more than sufficient consequences but even that is excessive
- Release everyone convicted on non violent drug charges immediately!
The US has 5% of the world’s population but 25% of its prison population This needs to change immediately!