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Police chief sought pain pills
2theAdvocate.Com ^ | Jan 4. 2008 | DEBRA LEMOINE

Posted on 01/04/2008 11:23:24 AM PST by microgood

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I feel for this guy and his wife as it is too hard to get the pain medication needed by many in this country since the DEA and states have declared war on doctors and pain prescribers.
1 posted on 01/04/2008 11:23:25 AM PST by microgood
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It sounds to me like she has a drug habit.


2 posted on 01/04/2008 11:24:34 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Didn’t he think anyone would catch on? Especially when the police force had no more guns?


3 posted on 01/04/2008 11:29:20 AM PST by telebob
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Nice to know that the drug problem is fully under control and that there are no more drug dealers. We even have to have federal agents pretend to be drug dealers to make arrests.


4 posted on 01/04/2008 11:30:13 AM PST by FreePaul
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Sounds like another victim of the failed war on drugs...when doctors cannot prescribe the proper amount and kind of pain medicine for fear of a federal investigation, it has gone too far...I have been denied pain medication from doctors and told exactly this....If my wife (or myself for that matter) was in extreme pain, i would go anywhere and do anything to get pain relief drugs, even if i had to buy them on the streets.....again, it is a travesty that this war on drugs has gone this far.....


5 posted on 01/04/2008 11:33:57 AM PST by joe fonebone (When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout)
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The government should get out of the business of telling chronic pain sufferers that they can’t have pills. I’ll bet he’s sorry that he participated in the failed war on drugs only to be bitten in the ass by it.


6 posted on 01/04/2008 11:35:23 AM PST by mysterio
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Most likely that is the case, but it is hard to know without really knowing why she has this pain. A man sworn to uphold the law and breaking the law in order to get her the narcotics, is most likely subsidizing a drug habit. In a nation of prescription pain medication zombies, most likely you are right about this.


7 posted on 01/04/2008 11:36:44 AM PST by WildcatClan (Vote Hunter for President)
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Failure to provide sufficient pain relief to the badly injured and those in chronic pain is the biggest scandal in medicine today.


8 posted on 01/04/2008 11:36:50 AM PST by pabianice
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It sounds to me like she has a drug habit.

I'm not sure what in the article led you to believe that, but coming from a family with two doctors (both retired), their biggest fear in life was being harrassed by the DEA over prescribing pain medication, and they commonly underprescribed as a result.
9 posted on 01/04/2008 11:37:13 AM PST by microgood
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What you said.


10 posted on 01/04/2008 11:41:45 AM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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I am 100% with you joe. I know from my own experience.

FMCDH(BITS)

11 posted on 01/04/2008 11:43:26 AM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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It’s terrible that doctors are afraid to prescribe pain medications because of the DEA. By the way for those experiencing nerve pain, Lyrica is a God send. My heart goes out to those in chronic pain.


12 posted on 01/04/2008 11:43:34 AM PST by Vicki (Washington State where anyone can vote .... illegals, non-residents, dead people, dogs, felons)
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I'm with you 100% pabianice.

FMCDH(BITS)

13 posted on 01/04/2008 11:44:55 AM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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That’s because some doctors tend to overprescribe pain medicine. The pain medicine starts to lose its effectiveness at the same time people get hooked. The doctors are then liable for making junkies out of their patients. I know a doctor that is fighting the feds now. She basically became the Oxy dealer. She even had her nurses forging documents to keep people in Oxy. She was VERY popular and made quite a bit of money doling out Oxy.

Oxy is not a good long-term solution for pain.


14 posted on 01/04/2008 11:48:36 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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She was VERY popular and made quite a bit of money doling out Oxy.

How does a doctor make money doling it out? All they can do is write a prescription. A doctor cannot make money off that, except the cost of the office visit, which barely covers their expenses.

Oxy is not a good long-term solution for pain.

What other alternatives are there?
15 posted on 01/04/2008 11:55:09 AM PST by microgood
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Oxy is not a good long-term solution for pain.

Is there a good (non-toxic, non-addictive, and effective) long-term solution for pain?

16 posted on 01/04/2008 11:55:18 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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A Short Pain Journal
17 posted on 01/04/2008 11:56:24 AM PST by pabianice
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He’s gone beyond funding people he believed to be drug dealers, he went far enough to supply them with guns. Those watching the gun grabbers should take note of this corruption on the inside of “enforcement”.


18 posted on 01/04/2008 11:59:22 AM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy in 2008.)
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There are some other options. Drugs don't always do the job.

Jerry Lewis, the comedian, was suicidal and almost pulled the trigger before he learned of a new technology:

http://www.medtronic.com/neuro/ttp/treatment_pacemaker.html

How does the Medtronic Pain Pacemaker relieve pain? For the treatment of chronic pain, neurostimulation includes the stimulation of the spinal cord or peripheral nerve by tiny electrical impulses. An implanted lead (a flexible insulated wire), which is powered by an implanted battery or by a receiver, is placed near the spinal cord. This lead and an implanted neurostimulator send electrical impulses that block the pain messages to the brain.

The stimulation can be adjusted in terms of strength and area of coverage via an external programming device. It may be felt as a small bulge under the skin, but does not normally show through clothing


19 posted on 01/04/2008 12:04:27 PM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy in 2008.)
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You have to have an appointment to get a renewal


20 posted on 01/04/2008 12:12:03 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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