Obama Floods US with Opioids; Kills DEA Enforcement Program
https://larouchepac.com/20161025/obama-floods-us-opioids-kills-dea-enforcement-program
Looks like all of these attorneys from Obama/Holder on down… are more interested in job security for the DEA than anything else. Remember, Holder left office being held in contempt of Congress… there has been THREE MEMBERS of the Obama administration and/or affiliated with the Democratic Party/Clinton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress that still have the charge of CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS against them and no legal actions taken against them.
But the information in this article along with what we know about all those chronic pain pts having their opiates cut back or discontinued and/or their prescribers being charged with fabricated charges and hundreds or thousands of pts being “thrown to the street”.. and some have committed suicide or started using “street drugs”… and now we have so many ODing because of Acetyl Fentanyl or Carfentanyl being mixed with street Heroin and the DEA does not seem to be capable of stop the importing of these very lethal drugs into our country and on to our streets.
If you read/listen to all the DEA press releases it FOCUSES on all the OD DEATHS… which it seems that they may be the root cause of people being forced to turn to “street drugs” ?
Americans are dying from overdoses of opioid-based pain killers at alarming rates, and Obama is to blame. Since assuming office, he has acted to protect the producers and distributers, by hand-cuffing the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in their enforcement efforts. An investigative report by the Washington Post over the weekend gives the details of how this happened.
Since 2000, deaths from opioids have increased steadily — overtaking those from drunk driving around 2010 — with over 14,000 people dying in 2014 (the last year which the CDC has posted statistics, which do not include deaths from heroin overdoses). The Post, as part of a series highlighting the human side of this new opium war, produced an investigative report on the take-down of enforcement efforts, begun shortly after Obama entered the White House. (In their coverage, the Post staff can’t bring themselves to actually name Obama, only mentioning (pot) Holder once, and this article, while appearing in print on Sunday, October 23, was not featured on the home page of their wider-circulation website.)
As the death-rate increased, in 2005 the DEA created the Office of Diversion Control (ODC), targeting the “diversion” of legally-produced drugs to the black market, focusing on the distributers, the middle-men between the producers and the pharmacies. After winning their first case against a small California distributer — eventually forcing it out of business — the ODC set its sights on two “biggies,” the Fortune 500 companies of McKesson and Cardinal Health. In 2008, the DEA won a $13 million conviction against McKesson, followed by a $34 million case against Cardinal Health. In 2010, according to court records, the agency had filed 115 “charging documents,” including 52 immediate suspension orders. That’s when the trouble began.
According to Joseph Rannazzisi, director of the ODC in 2011, the DEA was on the verge of going to court with what he called “the case of my dreams” — targeting Cardinal Health for huge over-shipments to four Florida pharmacies, including two CVS stores — when he received “an unexpected phone call” from James H. Dinan, then Eric Holder’s no. 2 man, chief of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces program at the DOJ (the official “parent” of the DEA). Eventually, Rannazzisi was summoned to a February 2012 meeting, where some of the administration’s highest enforcers — including Dinan; then-Deputy Attorney General James Cole; his chief of staff, Stuart Goldberg; and DEA chief counsel Wendy Goggin — just short of Obama, himself, tried to force him to cease and desist in his case against Cardinal Health.
While CVS was eventually forced to pay a $22 million fine in this case, Cardinal Health, although settling, has not been fined. For his tenacity, Rannazzisi lost his job in 2015. The Post says that court records have now identified 13 companies which “knew or should have known that hundreds of millions of pills were ending up on the black market.” Total filed cases began dropping immediately in 2011, and “surrender of licenses” which held steady through 2015, have dropped by 30% so far this year.
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We all could blame everyone in government from the President on down to the mayors of our home towns. We could blame the greed driven pharmaceutical industry for producing mass amounts of prescription opiates to fill the needs of medical needs as well as the illegal drug trade. The simple fact is that the entire war on drugs has been a total failure because law enforcement attention has been in the wrong place. The fact is, You can’t put a forest fire out with a squirtgun and that’s exactly what federal law enforcement has been trying to do for way too many years.
First, capturing and arresting low level street dealers won’t even put a dent in the illegal drug trade because for every one street dealer busted, there are 2 or 3 in the wings ready to replace them.
Next, the ones they do capture will never talk or turn on their suppliers and those that do won’t live long after they turn.
Third, the leadership of drug cartels are so far separated from the street level dealers and the smuggling illegals carrying backpacks full of drugs through the desert in the middle of the night that they don’t know who they work for anyway.
Finally, cutting off real patients access to their pain medications will only succeed in driving a very high percentage of pain sufferers to the streets to self medicate and further drive the profits of the drug cartels that the DEA has miserably failed to stop for years.
Here’s my opinion.
After WWII and the dropping of the Atomic bomb Twice, our government officials started to believe that no one would ever mess with the BIG DOG, (America) again. They actually believe that just by flexing the American Military muscle that opposition would bow to the feet of the world’s largest super power. Boy were they wrong. Since the end of WWII the US has failed at every conflict they have been in, including the War on Terror and the War on Drugs. Our veterans, or more to the point, OUR AMERICAN HERO’S have been left out to dry by ignorant law makers and flat out stupid intelligence agencies. We left Korea in a draw and Vietnam with our tail between our legs. So much for the Biggest Dog on the street.
It took 10 years to hunt down Bin Laden and kill him because our government went after the wrong country which turned Al-Qaeda into ISIS. Every country were we have had military action ill is now in Civil unrest and still our American Hero’s come home broken or dead. Now we have a division in our country that could be equaled to that of 1861 and no matter what anyone thinks, DJT is not the answer. The answer is to completely change the guard in Washington DC by voting all sitting representatives out and new ones in. It won’t change over night and a lot of us are going to suffer before it does change, but the fact is that it’s up to us to kick the career politicians out and bring real and honest representatives into office.
As Steve says, ” VOTE THE BUMS OUT “.
I I have read other articles also on this.From what I can understand,the problem is at the level of the distributors and middle men,in that they overship by the MILLIONS this medicine.There is clearly something wrong at the highest level of the supply chain.
As usual,the people that will be harmed the most are the ones obtaining the opioids illegally,and often overdosing.The other group that will be harmed,are the millions of legit pain patients,who need this medicine for medical conditions,and use it responsibly.It is not the fault of legitimate medically needful pain patients,that this corruption exists,yet that is the group that suffers from the political fallout.Depriving those in need of help the medicine they use lawfully,is not the way to solve this problem
If the reason for the unlawful abuse of this medicine can be traced to those at highest levels,then who can fix the problem? Apparantly no one can answer that,and until they do,it will continue,and people in need,with medical conditions, wil be made the scapegoats although they have nothing to do with the misuse and abuse of this medicine.
Everything with them is one sided. They live on the edge truth.
Keep those jobs in America.