Why Is The DEA Hounding This Doctor?

Focuses on the United States Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) crack down on prescription drug abuse by doctors and pain specialists. Description of the ongoing DEA experience of Dr. Richard Nelson, a Billings, Montana neurologist; Investigation and trial of Dr. William Hurwitz, a Virginia internist, sentenced to 25 years in prison for drug trafficking; History of the use of opioids, including Oxycontin, for the control of pain; How celebrity abuser Rush Limbaugh and others called government attention to the problem; Criticism of the DEA's statistics on prescription drug abuse and its investigative criteria; Comments by DEA administrator, Karen Tandy.