Posted on 11/06/2005 10:05:52 PM PST by JTN
A House-Senate conference committee yesterday dropped a controversial provision that gave the Drug Enforcement Administration authority to review, and potentially block, the sale of all new prescription narcotics.
The legislation, promoted by Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) and attached to a multi-department appropriations bill, passed last year with little notice. But this year the Food and Drug Administration, many drug makers and doctors who treat pain patients objected to renewing it, and the provision was stripped from the bill.
Opponents said the provision was an unwarranted intrusion by a law enforcement agency into the FDA's drug-review system. Pain specialists also said the DEA reviews could jeopardize development of new drugs needed by patients with chronic pain.
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This Stalinist government beauracracy has inserted itself into medical decisions that it has no business sticking its hairy, wart-covered nose into. They imprison patients for trying to relieve their own pain and physicians for trying to help them. Screw them.
Next step - Free Richard Paey.
Also read this.
take that DEA. Now all we have to do is figure out a way to get rid of them. I say we transfer all the agents over to ICE and put them at the border!
Good. The DEA got pwnt.
Two days old and this is breaking news?
Hmmmm just a question but was their task not a seperate look at a "new" prescription drug getting on the market if it was unsafe vs anything to do with enforcement ? Seemed like they were a safety valve or seperate review agency of what the FDA let on the market vs anything any more or less evil in the manner which the new law removes their responsibility ?
The little WOD warriors are still gonna play their games but this seemed to be the safety portion of DEA vs enforcement side..... just a question of course.....
Maybe the DEA commies just want the old folks to suffer.
Did that ever occur to you?
Given the FDA's war on doctors and patients (click the links in comment #1), I find it hard to believe that their motives are altruistic. It looks much more like empire building. Regardless, I would like to see the government take a much lighter hand in both enforcement and safety regulation.
Richard Paey has three kids at home who need their dad. He is a paraplegic who was sent to prison for trying to relieve his own pain, and any attempt to trivialize the injustice he has suffered is morally repugnant.
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Then he should think of his three kids before conducting behavior that keeps him in jail. Have you looked at those cartoons he's done?
He should be in jail because of cartoons?
I think the cartoons reflect the attitude that got him in jail and is keeping him there. I think he's right where he wants to be, and getting the attention he craves.
"Richard Paey seems to like the attention he's getting in prison"
At least he's finally getting the drugs that were illegal for him on the outside.
For once, something relatively good for the American people happened. Amazing.
Yeah, can you believe it? Every now and then they get something right. Or at least fix something they screwed up.
Are you still posting articles?
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