This letter is a formal complaint regarding Jeffery Blake Copeland, a doctor employed from January 2021 through March 2021 and to the best of my knowledge at this time, by Arkansas Continued Care Hospital (ACCH) in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

My name is Stanley K. Lawrence. I was in the custody of ACCH for approximately 68 days (15 January 2021 - 28 March 2021). According to the records of my stay in that facility, Dr. Copeland was the physician responsible for my care.

The reason this letter is being sent more than two years after the fact is that only in the past few months, due to my degraded health caused by the doctor's actions, have I been able to do so. It is accompanied by two exhibits:

Exhibit A consists of records provided by the hospital after my discharge, showing the drugs being administered. Note that at the time of my release I was still being administered the dangerous and injurious psychotropic drugs without any demonstrated medical necessity.

It further shows that the attempts of my family to have me relocated to another facility were thwarted due to what the doctor alleged were 'behavioral problems' that were in fact caused by the drugs.

Due to the number of pages of repetitive information, the included records include only several typical days. They show the escalation of misapplied medications.

Exhibit B is a collection of notes, based on my experience and the accounts of family members who visited me. While they refer to unsafe and unprofessional conditions and behavior by hospital staff and the shameful state of the operation, Dr. Copeland knew or should have known it and taken action to protect the patient.

I was and remain unable to return to work, depriving me of years of income and retirement benefits. My employer (a company with multi-million dollar per year revenues) was deprived of a valuable employee of almost twenty years of service and in a significant way a part of the company's success.

Dr. Copeland, entrusted with the life and health of - except for a relatively minor and temporary injury - a healthy human being reduced that human being to a physical wreck. What a competent, prudent and ethical doctor would have accomplished in a matter of weeks caused me months of mental and physical torment and permanent pain and disability.

The reckless actions of Dr. Copeland reflect badly on an industry with a reputation already often sullied by the avarice and incompetence of many of its practitioners. He should be thoroughly ashamed of himself and the institution which employs him should be embarrassed for doing so.

He should not be permitted to continue to be a danger to helpless patients.

This letter was sent by certified mail.