Can we take a minute and kill the DEA boogyman?

One of the reasons given for why addiction treatment has to be so hard to access and so rigid in it's implementation is that if it's not, the DEA will swoop down and arrest everyone involved.

And yet, this is the typical case of who the DEA goes after....

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2024/01/19/doctor-convicted-trial-unlawfully-dispensing-controlled-substances

Watch this documentry, in the second half of the season they are trying to take down a pill mill which was operating much like the example above. Took them like a year to shut it down.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_pharmacist

And then the recent Supreme Court ruling. Even the guys who need to be shut down are not at that much risk it seems.

https://www.ormanagement.net/Feature/Article/07-22/Landmark-Supreme-Court-Ruling-Recognizes-Opioid-Prescriber-Good-Faith-Defense/67650#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Supreme%20Court%20has,medicine%20for%20years%20to%20come.

I am not speaking to what might happen if you have a bad outcome and you get sued. That is a different issue for sure.

I am not saying you should not or could not practice in a way you feel safe/comfortable. Take the precautions, have the boundaries.

Just don't blame your practice on the DEA.

Or am I wrong?