Case is dropped against maverick MD. (alternative medicine physician, Jonathan Wright)(adapted from a Seattle Times wire story in the Kansas City Star, September 26, 1995)

The Justice Department decided not to file charges against Jonathan Wright, MD, the Kent, Washington physician whose office was raided by the FDA in 1992. Wright, who is the former president of the American Quack Association and current president of the National Health Federation, was accused of smuggling unapproved drugs, among other things (for details see "Health foods industry backs `persecuted' doctor," Priorities, Winter, 1993). Alexander Schauss, who leads the health food industry lobbying group Citizens For Health (CFH) rallied …