This bullshit with the DEA is getting totally out of hand! I had to go see my psychiatrist today and without me saying anything he brought up the fact that most of his peers are getting afraid to write for any controls and most definitely will not prescribe benzo’s anymore out of fear of the DEA coming down on them. He told me in his line of medicine benzo’s are a common medicine to use in conjunction with other medicines and he can’t believe his peers are stopping writing for them out of fear!

Jeff Walsh, DEA Asst. Special Agent, sits down with WESH 2’s Matt Grant to discuss issues patients are having getting legitimate prescriptions filled.

The above video is from Feb, 2015 and the reporter ( Matt Grant) from WESH TV in Orlando did a couple of dozen pieces on pharmacists in FL refusing to fill controlled med prescriptions.  Agent Walsh states that the DEA wants pts who have a legit medical need for being prescribed controlled substances that they should be able to get them.  Is there a DISCONNECT between those within the DEA who are in administration and those that are “out in the field” as to the real focus of the DEA ?

These physicians that has been treating pts for years or decades and all of a sudden decided that they are no longer going to prescribe control meds to their pts…

The Questions has to asked.. if a prescriber has been writing a particular medication for a pt for years/decades and now decides that the pt no longer needs that particular medication or any similar medication… Has the prescriber been guilty of malpractice and other issues for all those years the pt has been provided the medication or is the prescriber now walking down a path of malpractice by stopping prescribing the medication.

Was there NO CLINICAL PROOF for all those years the pt was taking the medication that it was really not needed ?  OR… is the prescriber now ignoring previous clinical evidence that the pt really had a valid medical necessity for the medication that they had been taking all that time and now refusing to treat the pt’s medical needs.  As we all know, chronic disease states typically don’t become “cured/improve” over time.

Those prescribers who are only reducing/eliminating controlled meds on pts that are/have been dealing with multiple disease issues … could be painting themselves into a corner for pt discrimination under the Americans with Disability Act, Civil Rights Act, pt abuse, medical battery for starters.  They are going to have trouble defending themselves in our court system with prefacing every statement with “in my professional opinion” to justify what they had done – or not done – for/to the pt.

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