Nothing in the article cited in the header shows this doctor did anything but help people afflicted with severe chronic pain enjoy livable lives. Claims by drug enforcement thugs eager for scalps and gifted with a crippling absence of human empathy establish nothing. A sick and sorry history stretching back nearly a century provides ample demonstration.
That there are criminal doctors I do not doubt. I expect criminal beauticians, criminal plumbers, even criminal men of business can be found. In none of these walks of life are criminals found in so great a proportion as they are found among law enforcement officers. The worst are drug enforcement and customs agents, who have available more profitable corruptions than does your average traffic cop, over and above the usual spousal abuse and associated violence which law enforcement officers commit at greater rates than the general run of the populace.
The drug police bear a heavier burden. They create most of the anti-social behavior they point to as necessitating their valiant efforts against the scourge of drugs. Drug laws declare a great many otherwise peaceable citizens criminals, and habituate them to viewing themselves as outside the law. Enforcement of these laws, by confiscations and fear of prison, raises the price, with predictable consequences of increased crime to secure necessary funds, and privation's damage to health. It accomplishes less than nothing, it does not support the peaceable order most people want around them, it actively degrades it.
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