Abuse of Medical Doctors ;dr salerian remarks

Prepared remarks of Alen J Salerian MD  before the US Congress , Committee On

Abuse of Medical Doctors on April 24, 2018

My Dear And Honorable Congressmen

I  speak to  you from  Athens Greece ,home  of Hippocrates.

My apologies for not appearing in person. I  thank you for the privilege  to share my observations about our war on drugs and doctors.

  A hurricane went through my life on Marche 2011 when a small army of armed men of my government  raided   my house in Bethesda Maryland and  office In Washington D.C.. They claimed I was a drug dealer.. The charges against me  were  dropped in April 2016.

   Until March 2011 I had enjoyed a privileged life as a psychiatrist , and  as the former director of MPERT- FBI. Over many decades I had taught at the George Washington University School of Medicine, treated some 10.000 patients  and  authored many scholarly  books  .

         In retrospect I was naive and foolish. For ,I thought my record as a conscientious physician would spare me from the   DEA.

Nether  my humanitarian work as the president of  Doctors For  People With

Physical And  Mental  Pain nor my credentials as an  expert reviewer for New

England Journal Of Medicine  on pain nor authoring an editorial for CNS

Spectrum a prestigious neuropsychiatric journal mattered.

Here comes the most painful part of my DEA journey including

 bankruptcy , imprisonment  solitary confinement and rape  in a federal prison

in Butner North Carolina .

12  sudden deaths  including  my attorney and many other innocent souls.

Yes 7 patients  died because the DC Department of Health shut down my

practice by a summary suspension of my DEA license in April 2012.

Emergency hearings were held in the summer of 2012. The honourable  DC

Administrative Judge  John Green never ruled on the lawfulness of the

summary suspension of my DEA Licence  which  shut down my

practice ,and led to my bankruptcy and the office  closure .

 My  dear congressmen ,

 may I now I  frankly share my observations and  and also raise    several

questions ?

In the spirit of honesty I  feel Judge Green , Dr Watson and other   members of the DC Board Of Medicine  are   morally responsible for  the  sudden deaths of Solange Macarthur, Deborah Sypert , Joseph Nasser, Philip Pruix ,Paul Mullins and two other patients of mine.

I also believe dirty tricks were responsible for the deaths of  my attorney Kevin

 Byers and  my  fellow board member Siobhan Reynolds and my colleague

Dr  John Mirczak ?

We  Americans have a major problem with  some 80 million  of us living with chronic pain ? Car accidents, wars, industrial accidents or  psychiatric disorders explain why so many of us are  in need of prescription pain medications .

I believe our ow war on drugs  have caused an epidemic of deaths from overdose and suicides.?

 I  believe our current laws that treat doctors  as  drug dealers are very wrong ,terribly wrong.

Are winds from Senator McCarthy era or  from  our tragic lynch mentality

past visiting us today ?

No American-patient or doctor -should   endure what my patients, associates

and family members have experienced.

Thank you

Alen J Salerian MD

An Open Letter To The Attorney General and The Members Of The House Of Representatives ,Washington D.C.

              Doctors For Equal Rights For Mental and Physical Pain

MARCH 2, 2017

An Open Letter To The Attorney General and The Members Of  The House Of Representatives ,Washington D.C.

·           My name is  Alen J Salerian MD.

I kindly request your assistance to end  the state sponsored persecution of pain physicians and people with chronic pain and mental disorders.

·           I am a physician,  the former  medical director of  the Mobile   Psychiatric Emergency Response Team at the FBI, the president and  the cofounder -of Doctors  Equal Rights For People With Mental And Physical Pain .

·           I practiced psychiatry  in Washington DC over 40 years . . I am proud of  my allegiance to the  Hippocratic oath and to the well being of my patients  regardless of any other external  influence .

·           For several decades I   taught psychiatry at  George Washington University School of Medicine  , made  scholarly contributions to  peer reviewed   medical journals ( The American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Research and Lancet, etc ) , authored  an editorial for CNS Spectrum , enjoyed the privilege of being a reviewer  on pain for New England Journal of Medicine and  published several books on mental health and brain function.

·           I was not a likely candidate to be a drug dealer or to recklessly endanger the lives of my patients  by excessively prescribing narcotics.

·           Seven years ago  on  March 3  2011, a small army of  armed men raided my home in Bethesda Maryland and  Washington DC.  My family  members, professional staff , patients and myself  endured  unspeakable indignities on that day.  Long  before  I faced any criminal charges of  drug trafficking , 12 people died ,  I became destitute and was forced to close my office without due process. .I also went to prison to have psychiatric evaluation where I endured torture, solitary confinement and rape.

·           Five years after the initial raid and after some $5 million in legal costs  the charges against me  were dropped in 2016.

·           All of the above horrors occurred because of our ill advised war on drugs that let DEA to persecute doctors for practicing Hippocratic medicine.

·           There is no other civilized country in the world where doctors are treated as drug dealers for practicing medicine.

·           HIDTA (High intensity drug trafficking administration) funds enable local police to harass drivers who take prescription pain medications .The same data is  covertly passed on to  the state medical boards to initiate computer generated investigations of  doctors  .

·           The high tech persecution of physicians and pain patients  are authorized  by the US Congress with HIDTA  funds.

Respectfully

Alen J Salerian MD