Bitter Pills

Legal Docket

WORLD Radio

Government

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

America is in the midst of an opioid crisis. In this case, the government brought criminal charges against two physicians accused of running “pill mills.” The criminal charges arise under the Controlled Substances Act, a federal narcotics statute aimed at combatting drug abuse. The government argues the Act calls for an objective standard to determine if the physicians are guilty of writing illegitimate prescriptions: Would a hypothetical reasonable physician believe the prescription was illegitimate? The two doctors argue the Act imposes a subjective standard: Did they personally have the knowledge and intent to write illegitimate prescriptions?Legal Docket is made possible in part by Samaritan Ministries, a Biblical and affordable solution to health care, connecting more than 280,000 Christians across the nation who help pay one another’s medical bills. More at samaritanministries.org/worldpodcast (samaritanministries.org/worldpodcast).

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0:00.0	Doctor E lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:05.6	He keeps long work hours and says he's a tad OCD, especially when he's keenly interested
0:12.2	in a research project, like the human back.
0:16.0	So from the base of your skull down to your tailbone, your spinal cord runs.
0:21.2	Doctor E stuffs his brain full of facts.
0:24.5	It's a column, it's like a cord, but as it goes down your back, there are hundreds of
0:29.1	thousands of nerve fibers that come out of your spinal cord to make your body work.
0:35.4	And facts.
0:36.4	The spinal column is conducting all this information for your life, respiration, your blood pressure,
0:42.6	your organ function, your brainstem function, and more facts.
0:46.5	Your vertebrae are bones.
0:48.8	In between each vertebrae is a disc.
0:51.2	Think of a disc as a car tire on its side.
0:53.7	Instead of air, it's filled with a gelatinous material.
0:57.3	Doctor E isn't a medical doctor, by the way, he's a doctor of ministry.
1:02.6	His name is Michael Easley, and he's the pastor of Stonebridge Bible Church.
1:07.7	He's been married to his wife for over 40 years, raised four kids, and now has young grandkids.
1:14.2	He also hosts the podcast Ask Doctor E, where he feels theological questions about life
1:20.3	and death and faith.
1:22.5	So why the intense interest in the spinal column?
1:26.2	Well, he lives with chronic back pain.
1:30.0	50 million Americans live with some sort of chronic pain.
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