Posted on 07/21/2005 8:52:38 AM PDT by Born Conservative
boy talk about a slap on the wrist!
Meanwhile three ounces of another product from a different type of plant netted someone 31 years in prison.
This guy has been known for YEARS as the pill doctor. Just about every person in Pittston knew about him and were surprised at how long it took authorities to notice him.
Compare this with the 30-year sentence given out for a dealer with 3 oz. of cocaine, just yesterday. Double-standard city!
I had Tylenol 3 prescribed once, for bursitis. It still hurt just as much, I just didn't care. Or couldn't, which is the same thing. A very strange feeling, that.
There were rumors of several of my high school classmates going to his office in a pregnant state, and leaving in an unpregnant state.
cost him all of maybe two days profits.
when this thing is treated like inner city crug dealing, we simply arent' serious about narcotics.
"I had Tylenol 3 prescribed once, for bursitis. It still hurt just as much, I just didn't care. Or couldn't, which is the same thing. A very strange feeling, that."
That's what I like about these new NSAIDs. The pain actually abates or disappears, and there's no high and no addiction.
Drawback: they're hard on the liver.
The real crime here is that what he was doing was considered 'illegal', and the friggin DEA, not the doctor, gets to decide the proper 'scope of treatment principles'.
The DEA is a unconstitutional organization that should be immediately abolished, and all of its agents reassigned to investigate terrorism and enforce immigration laws.
How can we be serious about narcotics when the Controlled Substances Act is such a joke?
"My son was one of his victims," the mother said."
Um, no, your son was an accomplice, perhaps, but not a victim.
I do not excuse the doctor's violation of the law and his position, but I can't let this woman absolve her son of any responsibility for his own actions.
Actually, NSAIDS are more toxic to the kidneys; Tylenol is more toxic to the liver.
You're right about Tylenol. Tylenol with alcohol can actually cause liver failure.
Having had Hep C, I keep an eye on such things. I don't know about the relative toxicity of NSAIDs vis a vis kidneys and liver, but the fact that they're hard on the liver is what concerns me most.
NSAIDs are hard on the liver...and the liver is kinda essential...
People generally consider over the counter meds as totally harmless e.g. if 2 aspirin help my headache then 4 aspirin are even better. Unfortunately, some realize too late that they have irreversible organ damage. My mother had an underlying undiagnosed kidney problem, and was popping aspirin like crazy for severe ankle pain (numerous surgeries; this was back in the mid 70's). She was on dialysis at the age of 35. Although she would have had to eventually go on dialysis, I'm sure that her aspirin use hastened the process by several years.
"She was on dialysis at the age of 35."
That's a real shame. Sometimes there just isn't any good choice.
I'm kind of between a cow and a flat rock my own self.
Got the liver damage, and need to take NSAIDs for osteoarthritis of the spine.
I wonder how far medicine is from developing a full-body transplant.
I'd settle for them being able to develop individual organs for transplant from adult stem cells.
Tylenol 3?? Jeez, I'd get a better high from Nyquil. If you are going to get an illegal script, do it for something decent.
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