four days ago… there was a legal defense fund created for Dr Tennant  https://www.gofundme.com/dr-tennant-legal-defence-fund

Since it was created … FORTY EIGHT people have donated from $5.00 to $2,000.00 for a grand total of $6,555.00

Supposedly 100 million chronic pain pts… and so far 48 people have stepped up.. and a few that have stepped up contributed ANONYMOUSLY … and only ONE MEDICAL DOCTOR has contributed….out of abt 700,000 physicians… not counting the number of PA’s, ARNP’s, NP’s who also have DEA licenses and prescriptive authority.

If the DEA can successfully prosecute the most well know and honored chronic pain physician in this country.. then NO PRESCRIBER IS SAFE and no chronic painer can have any assurance that their ability to get pain management will not VANISH in the not too distant future.

When the DEA went after Kratom and wanted to make it a C-I and thus an ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE … those in the community that depend on Kratom STOOD UP.. and the DEA backed off.  They have only won the battle and not the war because now the FDA is “going after” Kratom…

Dr Tennant was caring for the sickest of the sick in the chronic pain community and thus many of his pts were taking HIGH DOSES OF OPIATES..

The DEA is like the SCHOOL YARD BULLY… no one stands up to him/them… they are embolden to keep on doing what they apparently like to do… kick the crap out of those who refuse to stand up and take their “lunch money”..  In this situation with the DEA it is not your “lunch money” that they are after… it is YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE… or LIFE ITSELF… how many are going to commit suicide when they lose their pain medication and exercise the only option that they have to permanently silence their pain ?

According to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Administration    the DEA has a TWO BILLION/yr budget, but it is claimed that we are spending 81 billion/yr fighting the war on drugs…  If all those people & companies that are being adversely affected by the DEA and the war on drugs contributed ONE TIME the cost of a fast food lunch ( $5 -$7.50)… there would be a legal defense fund of > ONE-HALF TRILLION DOLLARS…

Spending a few million to help keep a innocent prescriber out of jail and continuing to practice medicine … would be “pocket change” for a legal defense with such “deep pockets”.

The DEA “taking out” one doctor will mean that hundreds or thousands of chronic pain pt will go without appropriate care and no other practice will touch you… because you were a pt at that “bad practice”. You will have a BIG RED “A” on your forehead… as in ADDICT

A Texas county attorney is suing most pharmas that produce opiates and major wholesalers so that according to him 

Ryan said the lawsuit is seeking to prevent the group named in the lawsuit from selling opioids. He said it also seeks monetary damages and fines to be assessed.

   https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=23405

Apparently this attorney believes that stopping the selling of prescription opiates that will eliminate the demand/sale of ILLEGAL OPIATES… just like the 18th Amendment and alcohol prohibition stopped the use/abuse of liquor/alcohol..   It took us about 13 yrs to figure out how STUPID THAT WAS.. But no one died during those 13 yrs because they had a medical need for alcohol. 

We try a similar stun with pain management meds and the deaths/suicides will be HUGE … 

SO GET OFF YOUR ASS AND MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO:

https://www.gofundme.com/dr-tennant-legal-defence-fund

 

 

 

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