Psychiatric Victims Of The War On Drugs DR SALERIAN

Psychiatric Victims Of The War On Drugs

    The war on drugs have many victims.

    Some of them are vulnerable psychiatric patients who prematurely and suddenly die

after their physicians become  targets for  prosecution. I know this personally, after the shutdown of my office I lost nine people in the first year. I also know my colleague Bill Hurwitz M.D. lost seven patients after he was taken down.

    Most doctors are privileged and relatively wealthy individuals. They are not the most ideal candidates to engage in drug trafficking the most common reason for prosecution. Let's say their chances of knowingly engaging in drug trafficking are as good as Trump or Rockefeller children engaging in the same business.

    So the real issue is the criminalization of medicine and irrational unconstitutional laws that allow the department of justice to  easily confiscate physician wealth for the war on drugs. More than $5 billion have been confiscated from physicians in the last 15 years. Doesn't matter whether the physician is eventually proven innocent . The money is forever gone.

     Yet the physician losses are miniscule relative to the devastation that strike many patients. A significant percentage of abandoned patients die prematurely and silently.

    When will this insanity stop?

    Not until we let our representatives and the Atty. Gen . know we know the truth.

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