Of course they want government to run everything. Being responsible for one's well being and actions is so, so demeaning. (sarcasm)
The answer is simple:
Just make it a Felony for ANY Medical Provider to prescribe, o0ffer to prescribe, or give any opiate of any kind to any Public Employee, Public Servant, or Government Official.
Problem Solved, LET THEM SUFFER FIRST!!!
We should put these guys in charge of absolutely everything.
Food most especially.
That way, the next time we elect someone that they don’t prefer, they can just starve us all to death.
Instead of running all the things we put these children in charge of, they can just stand there and stomp their feet like their doing right now, and we’ll get exactly what we deserve for being so stupid.
“The management of acute and chronic pain—as well as substance use disorder—is not in law enforcement’s wheelhouse”
Don’t tell the Overseer class that.
They think you should just suck it up, enjoy the pain.
For the Fatherland and all that.
Having endured an industrial accident overseas I can safely tell you that European pain management is far better then American medicine. They don’t act like there’s a guy looking over their shoulder with a gun.
So I have a little proposal. Let’s mandate that all DEA agents forego drug treatment for pain. I mean, isn’t that that what they want for the rest of us? Let’s set an example here!
If a few of them go down writhing in agony as their doctor sits helplessly nearby, hands tied, well...it’s for the good of the Republic, the body politic. Let them lead by example.
And if not, and if they are terrified by that prospect, then they can get out of the doctor’s offices. There are a tiny few who “overprescribe” and the state medical boards can handle them on complaint.
“Highly rigorous and respected Cochrane systematic studies in 2010 and 2012 of chronic pain patients found addiction rates in the 1 percent range, and a report on over 568,000 patients in the Aetna database who were prescribed opioids for acute postoperative pain between 2008 and 2016 found a total “misuse” rate of 0.6 percent. “
According to AMA, a person who is completely “dependent” upon opioids, to the point they risk death upon cold turkey withdraw, is not addicted.
As long as the meds are prescribed by a doc.
Semantics of the worst sort accompanied by a brand new definition.
beats the heck outta getting shot at by drug-runners!!
Why do we need the DEA? I though the job of the FDA was to verify the effectiveness of medicine, drugs and the purity of food. What does the DEA actually do that actually benefits the American People?
This is the same mentality as “Gun Control.” Blame the guns, blame the pills, but never prosecute the real criminal abusers. The result is persecution of the legal purchaser, while the criminals are protected as prospective Democrat voters.