The first step should be to BAN All Opioids from ALL Public Employee’s and Government Retiree’s Nationwide, make it a FELONY to even Try to receive them.
Then we can talk about restricting the citizenry
Abuse of Opioids is a legitimate question, but the medical usage needs to be left to doctors. Opioids have a role to play in medical treatments.
So, a qualified doctor writes a prescription for a life-changing opioid, which, unfortunately has an addiction potential, and you would have someone, (I'm assuming you mean the Feds) swoop in and arrest them.
Then we can talk about restricting the citizenry
Read the US Constitution much?
Granted, the drug has addiction properties.
So does booze.
They tried banning that once, too, remember?
And booze has a lot less "medicinal" value than properly issued and consumed opioid, particularly when the opioid is issued and the use of it monitored by a qualified MD.
I just don't see your point.
I have personal knowledge of what opioids can do for a terminal patient that still wants some sort of awareness, and even in my own life, when, if not for opioids, I probably would not be walking today.
Should I have just kept my late wife drunk while she died, in a silly stupor, not knowing where she was or who she was...or was it better to have her pain assuaged by a drug that allowed her to sit and converse with me while her life ebbed away?
I still just don't see your point.
There is a place for opioids in medical practice.
A heavy-handed, knee-jerking bunch of politicians have destroyed the ability of doctors to manage the pain of their patients.
It's a damned shame and we need to start over with this issue and take a very close look at it.
And get the damned DEA out of the role of practicing medicine.
They aren't very good at it.
>>The first step should be to BAN All Opioids from ALL Public Employee’s and Government Retiree’s Nationwide, make it a FELONY to even Try to receive them.
Then we can talk about restricting the citizenry<<
So much for a quality of life for people suffering from cancers, muscular dystrophy and other painful debilitating ailments.
If a crooked doctor padding his pockets by prescribing to the general public, thereby feeding addictions...yea, I can see poppin the guy.
But to have this dogmatic approach to opioids is absolute lunacy.
My dad and also my FnL both suffered from enormously painful conditions and w/o these types of pain killing treatments, they were reduced from strong manly men to whimpering children.
Horrible to watch what they went through. The difference in their quality of life was significant when they would have opioids on board as opposed to not.
So..no, I’m 110% against this broad brush ban on opioids. Incidentally, in case folks are not aware, the U.S. government has the largest stockpile of opiates in the world...stored at non other than Fort Knox.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19930916&slug=1721425
“The first step should be to BAN All Opioids from ALL Public Employee’s and Government Retiree’s Nationwide,”
I’m on a state retirement medical plan (combo Medicare/state plan). Are you saying I shouldn’t have been given oxycodone and hydrocodone after my hemorrhoid and shoulder operations?
Great idea. None of those wounded veterans need that crap.
Yes. That’s sarcasm.
Idiot.
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They can enjoy getting dental implants without half a dozen Vicodin for the first few days.