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Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers: The DEA's War on Prescription Painkillers
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| JUNE 5, 2005
| Ronald T. Libby
Posted on 06/06/2005 8:17:01 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:17:41 PM PDT
by
CHARLITE
To: CHARLITE
Rush needs to respond to this.
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:19:58 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: CHARLITE
I guess those in pain are supposed to score Black Tar Heroin, or maybe the WOD trash just likes the idea of hundreds of thousands of people in constant excruciating pain.
No consequence of legalizing all drugs would be as bad for society as the consequences we suffer now from the WOD.
SO9
To: mikebake
ping
They wouldn't like the Opiate/Eskatrol cocktails for terminal cancer patients either.
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:22:32 PM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(John Kerry - When even your best still isn't good enough)
To: CHARLITE
In America 140 years ago there were no drug laws, and there were no meaningful drug problems. How bright does anybody need to be to figure that one out?
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:22:42 PM PDT
by
tahotdog
To: Servant of the 9
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:22:52 PM PDT
by
wingnutx
(Seabees Can Do!)
To: CHARLITE
I don't know why this is such a big deal. Those of us that take opiates regularly don't really have a problem. We can quit anytime we want...........
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:23:14 PM PDT
by
Jaysun
(No matter how hot she is, some man, somewhere, is tired of her sh*t)
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To: A CA Guy
There is a pain killer that is non-narcotic, non-addictive, and has never killed anyone by overdose. Oh, nevermind, the SC just voted to prosecute anybody using it.
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:32:24 PM PDT
by
Nachoman
To: CHARLITE
from the DEA agent's perspective and the federal prosecutors perspective..its an easy score..the doc does'nt shoot back, if he's any good at all there's some great local TV face time.......and usually some cash somewhere to clean out
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:35:02 PM PDT
by
mo
To: CHARLITE
The poor old MSM just doesn't get it.
Medical bills keep going up and is proportionate to the amount of government interference into how patients are treated.
Activists judges, crazy juries and exorbitant awards are the price that the general public is paying for runaway sue happy lawyers.
Go into the emergency room with an ingrown toenail and your liable to end up with bill out of this world.
Why because the doctor is trying to protect his butt from those people who are trying to make it to easy street through a large judgment.
Hospitals are running unnecessary test to protect themselves and that is driving up the cost of health for the average Joe.
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:35:48 PM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(LL THE)
To: Nachoman
That isn't much of a pain reliever, has connections to schitzophrenia and often gets mixed with other drugs as it's uses gets familiar.
Pain management is tough, and though people will get shorter lives with lots of prescribed pain medication, often doctors prescribe it because the alternative is they try and kill themselves form the pain.
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:39:17 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Servant of the 9
I agree it seems like sadism to keep painkillers away from people in pain.
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:41:59 PM PDT
by
ran15
To: CHARLITE
As a person that has severe chronic pain, and as anyone else that suffers from it will tell you that pain medication taken for a specific purpose is not habit forming. The DEA needs to study the problems of chronic pain. Just as with any medication. If it is not taken for the intended use, yes it becomes a illicit drug. The one thing that gives me some relief and helps make my medication more effective are injections in my back. Guess what, my insurance fights me on this, and it is just not worth the fight. The DEA uses the old canard that if you stop taking the medication you have increased pain, therefore you are addicted. My Doc tried me on Vicadan, but I can't tolerate the acetominophen (Tylanol).
My next thing is a nerve block.
I get sick of people that know nothing of chronic pain trying to make laws with regards to it's treatment.
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:42:30 PM PDT
by
marty60
To: CHARLITE
They should just merge the FDA and the DEA. At least it would be more honest, merging the scientific and propagandist with the propagandist and militarist.
To: A CA Guy
Doctors prescribe pain killers because thats all they know how to do. Too bad doctors don't know half as much as they think they do.
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posted on
06/06/2005 8:45:51 PM PDT
by
Nachoman
To: tahotdog
In America 140 years ago there were no drug laws, and there were no meaningful drug problems The Drug War dates to about the end of Prohibition. Can't disemploy the JBTs can we?
These people are enemies of the Constitution and of freedom. They deserve the fate of the Tories in the revolutionary times.
To: tahotdog
In America 140 years ago there were no drug laws, and there were no meaningful drug problems. How bright does anybody need to be to figure that one out? Good point. The brain washing in our society by our rulers in the vast government bureaucracies is nearly complete. 99% of Americans today have no idea of true Liberty of the government our Founders intended. Many Freepers are even taken in by the so called WOD. It is a colossal failure and an affront to our Liberties. The WOD is another cancer that is eating at the foundation of our Republic. What most people don't understand is that since these vast bureaucracies have been created they are expanded each year with added monies (usually obscene amounts) and added personnel. To maintain the stranglehold over such a significant amount of our income these so called "servants" must justify their existence to the citizens. They do this through finding so called bad seeds. Raids are highly publcized as "protecting the citizens." It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic. I know many in law enforcement and most, if they are honest, tell you the WOD is a waste. But, heck, it's a job! Many in law enforcement partake of illegal substances too, showing another hypocrisy of this WOD. If our country can survive the cancer of Liberalism, it will have to survive the other highly corrosive cancer attacking our freedoms -- the unwinnable WOD. Most of the problems associated with drugs is because of the very "illegality" of the drugs and not the drugs themselves. This has all be much better explained by the likes of Milton Friedman and other brilliant thinkers.
To: Nachoman
"There is a pain killer that is non-narcotic, non-addictive, and has never killed anyone by overdose. Oh, nevermind, the SC just voted to prosecute anybody using it. "
Ain't that the truth! Can you imagine the economic impact legalizing Pot would have.
To: Nachoman
For many, weight loss would help a bunch.
Some who have real spine damage really don't have lots of alternatives to drugs.
One of my friends is an orthopedic surgeon who was rather prominent here in California, then his back ended his career. Nothing can be done, he has severe spine damage from being required to help remove patients from the operating table.
It's a tortured life, and I don't envy people in that condition.
I had a broken neck once by a drunk driver that ruined me for several years of recovery, though I used no drugs, I am familiar with the pain.
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posted on
06/06/2005 9:02:57 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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