Posted on 04/21/2007 2:24:32 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
The only prescription drug EPIDEMIC I am aware by the of is the makeup one by the people with jobs because of the drug war. I don’t think I should be denied access to pain medication or cough syrup (without a $75 Doctor office visit) so that you can feel safe. I have to show an ID to purchase sudfad, and sick people are being denied needed pain medication because the DEA is looking over the Doctor’s shoulder. Do we live in a free country or a Stalinist a state? When it comes to prescription medication its a Stalinist state, with plenty of government checks to go around.
I go to one of those "licensed drug dealers" for chronic severe pain. What would you have me do in your perfect world. Suffer?
It was a molar and I wanted to keep the tooth if at all possible. But that would require a root canal and a crown, which was prohibitively expensive without insurance. I had saved up almost enough to at least get the root canal done, but the abscess flared up regularly.
What, suggesting that the drug he's about to prescribe me might be just as effective against bacteria if it didn't come under his aegis? My doctor is a pretty rational guy; I think he'd buy the idea. But I don't think he'd jeopardize his license by breaking ridiculous Prohibition-era drug regulations.
Paranoid psychobabble.
... said the lemming right before he plunged off the cliff.
I can't belive I'm spending good time answering this juvenile jerk-ff crakpot nonsense.
I can't believe you're answering with such juvenile, sophomoric insults. A man of your vast intelligence must have potholders to knit.
Feel free to have the last word.
Thanks. Feel free to try some of your own Haldol samples.
I don't go to the doc until I am beyond repair, and I've lived long enough to know whether the once-a-year infection is viral or bacterial.
When I go to the doc, tell and display my symptoms, I just want whatever it takes to knock it out.
I don't want a lecture about guns in the house, smoking or whatever, I just want whatever is bugging me to go away.
If I have to go to Mexico to buy a truckload of Keflex, so be it.
I'm just not in the mood at the time to put up with the crap when I know what is wrong.
Who cares?
All the majority of us know is that we now have to subjugate ourselves to some lackey, present a passport, and provide proof of our physical address in order to buy decongestants.
Then maybe we should take a small step to confine that problem to Mexico.
Classic.
You are confusing freedom with liberty. Liberty is a lot better than freedom.
I did, that's where I started and I went to several of them. After it was determined by the "real doctors" that the cyst inside of my brain(yes I DO have a brain) was stable and not growing but causing severe headaches, they referred me to a pain clinic for the pain symptoms they said will always remain.
I understand. I’ll put you on my prayer list.
no dems
Thank you very much! I need every prayer I can get!
You already can, those who are so inclined so so today.
In my area of Texas I have seen it detroy lives and families. I’ve been to more funerals for prescription overdoses in the last year than I have in my life. My town did not have one “Pain Management Clinic” a year ago.
If it wasn’t illegal to smoke a joint at home and these “moms” didn’t have to risk losing thier kids, maybe they wouldn’t have to turn to scripts that they can obtain legally.
Good point!
Ask a Dr. or Pharmacologist why we have drug resistant bacteria today. Regulation of Antiboitics has no effect and the ability to obtain them without a script would not have contributed as much as people think.
The reason is people stop taking the antibiotics when symptoms subside but the bateria are still in the person’s system. The few that survive by mutation begin are allowed to continue to multiply and the next person to catch the newer generation of the “bug” may do the same thing. After thousands of generations the bacterial strain now has a resistance. This has happened in a regulated, prescription only environment. We have the same thing happening in hospitals with particularly resistant strains of Staph Aerius, antibacterial cleansers have as much to do with it as oral antibiotics.
Any DR.s on here, tell me if I’m full of it.
You are right!
Because regular doctors are prevented by BATF rules from prescribing "too much" pain medication. In fear of their licenses, they tend to underprescribe for pain.
That's if you can even continue to buy them. One cold remedy that I found especially effective was Tylenol Cold Severe, which was a liquid cold remedy containing pseudoephedrine. Rather than moving it behind the counter, Tylenol just discontinued it, and the only one now available contains phenylephrine, which I have found to be less effective.
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