Posted on 08/15/2016 6:58:24 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Edited on 08/15/2016 7:12:26 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
If we are going to hold street corner drug dealers responsible customer’s deaths, we should also hold doctors responsible for their patients who overdose.
The analogy here would be more like a doctor lying to a patient about what his prescription was going to be filled to be.
But Obama said it was a victim less crime. That is why he just let out a bunch of them out of prison.
If someone sold you a gun and it was a lousy gun and it blew up in your face, that would justify cracking down on all firearms sales?
“we should also hold doctors responsible for their patients who overdose.”
A couple who ran a pill mill in Tampa Bay just got sentenced to 20+ years for just that.
I drive by a “Pain Management” clinic almost every day, and the loitering around that place look no different than junkies in a dark alley.
Lash the users, kill the dealers.
Simple.
Anybody who wants Federal or State money for less is just blowing smoke.
The person responsible is dead. The buyer/user.
That's patently false. Not all addicts behave like that, nor do they "want as much of it as they can get". Whether its alcohol (hands down the worst drug on earth), nicotine, weed, pharmaceuticals, or what have you, many addicts maintain a consistent level of use for years, and never OD, simply because they know what they're dealing with, or they have a measure of self control, etc.
Grossly oversimplifying the issue is not the answer.
One thing I'm completely convinced of. Since I know at least something about addiction, and I also know something about Tyranny, and it will never be legitimate to attempt to solve the former with the latter.
Authoritarian shortcuts are never the answer. When everybody starts using the State to impose their own petty Tyrannical "solutions" to societal ills, we end up with a very screwed up culture, and not constantly shrinking Freedom.
Sound familiar?
I've watched the phony and Tyrannical War on Drugs fail miserably for half a century, and I prefer actual Freedom with all of its challenges and inconveniences. I reject the "least common denominator" approach to Liberty, which, of course, requires an ever-expanding state apparatus to enforce its ever-expanding edicts.
It's impossible to advocate for both minimal government and embrace the expanding nanny state. They're fundamentally incompatible. Choose one or the other.
You need to find a root for the imperative, and 10 gets you 100 any day that the only root you can find is shot clear through with hypocrisy.
Even in a sanely libertarian regime, one expects honest dealing. The bible condemns false weights and measures.
A case like that in the lead article could be conscientiously prosecuted. Mockers like “Lurker” are just being silly in opposing this.
But the trend to try to encase society in a rubber room is, in the end, even self defeating. Because pretty soon, only the rubber room keepers will have weapons (be they guns or chemicals), and will use them upon those they just jolly don’t like.
That has been obvious for several years now ;^)
What you did there. I see it.
You are correct. The WOD is really a war on our freedoms.
26 Heroin Overdoses in Huntington (West Virginia) on Monday
http://www.tristateupdate.com/story/32764747/update-26-heroin-overdoses-in-huntington-on-monday
That does not even take into account drugs like ZANNAX, Lyrica, Neurontin is generic for gabapentin, Cymbalta all highly addictive.
Estranged DIL is a Xannax addict along with POT, stays strung out. Doctor shops and draws Disability to support her habits.
My only Brother is an ALKY drinking himself to death, he too draws disability due to bad health from the Ever Clear....both mentally prone to addiction.
I on the other hand get hassled by the Feds and State for the 20 MG of Valium per day, that controls my Fibromyalgia and am forced to see my STUPID, USELESS Primary every 3 months for blood work, not a pee test. Even after 8 yrs, I can stop on a dime, if I want the level 10 muscle pain. 20 mg only brings the pain down to level 5. Add in the totally degenerative back and you are always in High level PAIN. Getting a script for a opioid is nearly impossible now unless the pain drives me to the ER with my BP in heart attack zone and chest pain.
A Muslim, or a Muslim’s child, is waiting to take his place at his jobsite. They’re already going to outbreed Americans, while otherwise healthy Americans take and overdose on drugs. The WOD was more important than we thought.
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