Healers or Dealers?: True Investigative Stories of Corrupt Doctors

by Richard P. Allison

Overview

Do no harm?

There is an innate trust built into us since childhood that our doctor spent years learning and studying how to help people. But what if that trust is broken? Are they all brought to justice for the confidences they’ve betrayed and the countless lives they’ve helped ruin?

In Healers or Dealers?, readers get a front-row seat to the jaw-dropping true accounts written by the retired investigator who experienced them and attempted to hold these doctors accountable. His stories show a direct correlation between doctors’ questionable conduct with illegal administrating, dispensing, and prescribing of opioids and the craze that plagues our nation today. Couple this with the addictions that unwaveringly rival those we see in the worst of America’s inner cities…

and a pharmaceutical opioid epidemic is born.  

"In these pages, Allison compiles 22 of his most compelling cases in a chilling narrative of medical and pharmaceutical corruption...His stories are as absorbing as a police procedural as he describes the work of undercover agents, sting operations, corrupt judges who refused to sign warrants against physicians they knew, and doctors and pharmacists who covered for colleagues. His attitudes are firmly grounded in law and procedure, but he also effectively reveals how he takes his mission to heart, offering respectful advice for a drug addict physician who confesses and cooperates and admitting lifelong regret regarding a pharmacist he was unable to indict...An engrossing look into the work of those who investigate flagrant medical malpractice." - Kirkus Reviews

"Absolutely maddening! Unbelievable. I knew some doctors were bad but I truly had no idea of the extent of the pill/drug trade some of them engage in. Richard Allison has written a truly engrossing book detailing his years as an investigator with Mississippi's state medical board. Readers will be absolutely shocked at what some doctors get away with and the lengths they go to keep their illegal drug use and overprescribing active...It is well worth the read." -Inkysreviews Blog

"Some doctors make mistakes which are totally accidental. A few other doctors are intentional in their mistakes; fueled by greed, they kneel at the altar of the almighty dollar. I call them "dragons". This is a book about slaying those "dragons". -Jones E. Allison Jr. "Pete", United States Secret Service, Special Agent - Retired

"Healers or Dealers? is a book that clearly reveals how bad doctors divert and/or overprescribe pharmaceutical opioids, thus fueling the current epidemic. " - Sammy Webb, Director of the Youth Drug Court, Desoto County, Mississippi, former Chief of Police, Senatobia, Mississippi, and former criminal investigator for the 17th Judicial District in Mississippi

"Richard's meticulous investigations described in this book point out the horrendous, widespread misuse of prescribing practices, allowing just a small percentage of licensed doctors to feed an opioid epidemic." -Steve Campbell, Author of Once We Were Aces. Captain, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, Retired; Captain, Harrison County Sheriff's Department, Professional Standards Supervisor, Retired

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164947149
Publisher:	Foundations Books Publishing Company
Publication date:	10/26/2021
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	798 KB

About the Author

Richard P. Allison was born on May 16, 1949, in Grenada, MS. Played football and baseball at John Rundle High and graduated in 1967. Graduated from Delta State Univ. in 1972 with a BBA in Business and minor in Criminal Justice. Initially employed by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics. Later hired by the MS Medical Board where I worked as Chief Investigator until retirement in 1998. After state retirement, I briefly served as the manager of the Fraud unit at a local, large health insurer. Subsequently, hired as a Loss Prevention Investigator for a nationwide shoe retailer. Later promoted to Director of Loss Prevention for the company. Completely retired in December of 2013.

Table of Contents

Preface i
The Pill Doctor - Special Preface 12
Chapter 1 - The Pill Doctor 15
Chapter 2 - Controlled Substances and Strippers Galore 42
Chapter 3 - Dr. Bridge and Dr. Blues 51
Chapter 4 - Overabundance of Probable Cause 67
Chapter 5 - Doctor Cann 78
Chapter 6 - Crayon Man 88
Chapter 7 - Dr. Elvis and Corrupt Cop 103
Chapter 8 - No License Required 114
Chapter 9 - Absent Practitioner 135
Chapter 10 - Motel Man 157
Chapter 11 - Doctor Warden and Gamer 167
Chapter 12 - Dr. Adams and Eve 177
Chapter 13 - Performance by Papaverine 186
Chapter 14 - Doctor SOP and The Informant 193
Chapter 15 - Dr. Excalibur and Benedict 206
Chapter 16 - Doctor Clark 214
Chapter 17 - The Red Ball Express 228
Chapter 18 - The Mobile Cure 241
Chapter 19 - Dr. Hamilton 249
Chapter 20 - Dr. Stavros and Dr. Avilla 255
Chapter 21 - Dr. Vern and Patient Gross 277
Chapter 22 - X-Rays and Diversion 283
Epilogue 292
Acknowledgments 298
Glossary 305
About the Author 315