[coloradan]

The masses currently addicted to prescription painkillers have conveniently been able to manage their addiction and manage other aspects of their lives like job and family.

... so the harm is what, exactly? Besides being a jobs program for DEA agents, police officers, judges, and prison guards, that is.

[mosaicwolf]

Choices have consequences. I learned a long time ago never pay for someones else consequences

[svcw]

Just throwing this out there, as someone who has chronic pain because of injury. It is nearly impossible for me to get pain relief meds. If after practically begging the docs for a script, I'll get enough for 10 days. I if I push through make that last 20 days. Then its back to the doc. The scipts are not nearly as expensive as the doc visit.
For me I do not have an addiction problem I have a pain problem.
Maybe these people have pain problems that are not being dealt with.

[proxy_user]

HAMM:
Is it not time for my pain-killer?
CLOV:
Yes.
HAMM:
Ah! At last! Give it to me! Quick!
(Pause.)
CLOV:
There’s no more pain-killer.
(Pause.)
HAMM (appalled):
Good...!
(Pause.)
No more pain-killer!
CLOV:
No more pain-killer. You’ll never get any more pain-killer.
(Pause.)
HAMM:
But the little round box. It was full!
CLOV:
Yes. But now it’s empty.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

For Obama, failure of his economic measures of spending more money means we haven't spent enough money yet.

For War on Some Drugs zealots, failure of the War on Some Drugs means we haven't passed enough laws yet.

[trumandogz]

Not all Junkies jam a needle in their arm.

[Don Corleone]

In the Soviet Union when the masses wanted to forget their oppression they turned to VODKA. Here in the USA the way to forget an Obamanation seems to be pills.

[lacrew]

Divisive topic. For those who have trouble getting pain meds, and wonder how this could be....do not under-estimate the power of a combination of questionable doctors, disability fraud, and street sales of oxy. I don’t think this article is about genuine chronic pain sufferers (who have spoken up on this thread), instead its plain old drug abuse by the liesure class.

[grumpygresh]

Prescription opioid will only continue to increase as access to curative treatment decreases with 0bamacare and the unfotunate intended consequences.

[tacticalogic]

You do understand that SAMSHA is a a bunch of federal bureaucrats, looking for problems that need to be solved, and producing reports that will be used to argue for increasing federal regulation and funding for the bureaucrats and bureaucracies that will write and enforce those regulations, right?