The war on drugs is preventing many Americans from getting desperately needed pain medicine.

Salon.com ^ | April 4, 2002 | Damien Cave

[Flipper4]

After three decades of chronic, searing pain, Marie Dabrowski was finally able to sleep. She was able to think. And sometimes, thanks to her new pills, she could almost forget about her fibromyalgia, a mysterious nerve disorder characterized by fatigue, migraine headaches and full-body aches.

But Dabrowski's respite did not last. The medication responsible for her two-year break from daily misery was OxyContin. And about a month ago, Dabrowski's doctor cut her off. The move had nothing to do with callousness or lack of concern, says Dabrowski, who asked that her doctor remain anonymous. Instead, the doctor was spooked by a proposed Virginia law designed to intensify scrutiny of physicians who prescribe the drug. In the end, says Dabrowski, it was the prospect of police interrogation that pushed her doctor over the edge.

[A CA Guy]

Did they just stop the drug for everybody or did they go after doctors who prescribed left and right like they were giving out candy? That would be the issue.

They shouldn't just shelve the drug, but the doctor should think twice before writing prescriptions.

[ruoflaw]

They did not stop the drug. My sister just had surgery and they gave her Oxycontin for two weeks and it really helped she had a long and serious surgery...they sent her home on it for two weeks and explained that it was only to be used short term. If all doctors would be that responsible, the rest of the doctors wouldn't have to worry about the DEA.. Yes, I believe that some doctors hand it out like candy and that is what has caused this big problem...I am also sorry to hear that people are losing their hearing because of it.

[Grenada]

The doctor that told you to live with the pain is a putz. NO ONE should have to live with that degree of pain!!! I have also been told to see a shrink, that I had a need in me to be weak.

I imagine they will someday see the error of their ways. Even if it is when they are consigned to He!!

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[reflecting]

I'm told you can get it any day of the week at the local High School.... about $5 a pill.....

[tacticalogic]

It is well known in the NORMAL COMMUNITY that there are tons of drugs that are legal out there that can better help than the illegal ones that seem to get used mostly for liesure.

The article is about oxycontin, a legal drug. It makes no reference to illegal drugs at all. If the "normal community" is people like you, I'm staying wierd, thank you very much.

[dead]

Are you high? The article is about a legal drug.

[A CA Guy]

A legal drug that people are claiming is being taken away from them due to a drug war!

This issue is more likely that since it is cheap heroin and there has been foul play regarding perscriptions, doctors are at risk for prescribing this without a real reason.
The liberal thinkers probably gave prescriptions out like candy and are now being looked at real close now.
If your doctor is afraid to prescribe anything when you have a real disease, then he has been or is probably on probation for behaviors unfitting of a doctor.

[A CA Guy]

I figured like you that the reason for the cracking down on these doctors was they were acting like drug pedlers.

Pro-drug folks here though look for anything out of desperation to get acceptance for their vice.

[A CA Guy]

This seems to have the tag of a typical Addicted Drug Warrior title:

The war on drugs is preventing many Americans from getting desperately needed pain medicine.

This was more about Doctors passing out Hillbilly Heroin to people who are not that sick and perhaps having the law putting pressure on them not to do that.

[A CA Guy]

What does the Title of this article suggest water boy? You have the typical liberal speak protecting Salon.com a liberal magazine with your vast verbal skills.

Doctors passing out Hillbilly Heroin out like candy in prescriptions is the source of this grief. Not any drug war.

**BUNK ALERT**

[A CA Guy]

You are in a percentage of .0003% of the vote based on how many Libertarians voted in my state.
That makes you part of a fringe group who don't even outnumber hotdog venders in the states you vote in.
Probably most are unemployable as well based on how they post.

[BlackbirdSST]

I'm told you can get it any day of the week at the local High School.... about $5 a pill..... The "real" side effect of the WOsD's. Drug warriors are clueless punks. They are the scurge of our society. It is their fault that drugs are so prevalent. If you are a person, as some have stated here, that the medical community has turned their backs on ( I can relate to this as a matter of FACT not speculation), because of the WOsD's, then I would recommend getting relief anywhere you can find it. Screw 'em. Wonder if, the elites suffer? Not likely. Pain and suffering is for the sheep to endure. Blackbird.

[BlackbirdSST]

You are in a percentage of .0003% of the vote based on how many Libertarians voted in my state. Coming from someone who lives in CA., you are really stupid to hold that out as a badge of honor. Look what your left with, the liberal bastion that is CA. I'll take a hardcore libertarian anyday, over a fake conservative who'll pick and choose what parts of the Constitution they'll support. Geez, what idiots you drug warriors are. You're next! Let's presume for a moment, the Drug War is over, victory is declared, eutopia reigns in the streets of Amerika. "OK" say's one DW to the other, "now what"? Hundreds of thousands of Drug Warriors with nothing to do. Do you think we'll find them standing in the unemployment line? More likely they'll produce another "Evil" to combat. Perhaps they can find reason to raid your vehicle while sitting in the drive thru waiting for your fatty hamburger. Who knows, maybe they'll shoot your kids face off, quite by accident of course. Regardless, to ensure total victory, we should allow cameras in every house to make sure the scurge of drugs never resurfaces. This is more of a prediction than speculation, care to wager? Tighten your boot straps. Blackbird.

[tacticalogic]

This was more about Doctors passing out Hillbilly Heroin to people who are not that sick and perhaps having the law putting pressure on them not to do that.

I'm not really in the habit of letting some flake-job from La-La Land in Kalifornia read stuff for me. Left coast wackos have done quite enough damage trying to tell us what the Constitution means.

[verity]

"It is not the proper role of government to condemn this woman to a lifetime of pain because there is a chance that somewhere down the line she might lose her hearing"

Absolutely flawless logic. Bwahahaha.

[A CA Guy]

Your are right, stick to your .0003% fringe group want-to-be party!

At least you have enough class to not imposter a Founding Father's name like the more pathetic folks on these threads. I'll give you that at least.

[dcwusmc]

I see you hollered foul at my post, which does not surprise me one bit. A coward AND a cretin. But go ahead, statist boy, just keep on. One day you will learn for yourself what the FedGov Leviathan REALLY wants, but by then it will be too late. The libertarians and the Constitutionalists will be history if you have YOUR way, then who will be left to speak for YOU? You'll be on your own AND disarmed... Drugs? Nah, that's a red herring... It's about POWER AND CONTROL OVER OTHER PEOPLE, simple but hardly pure. Are you deluding yourself that YOU will be one of the ones in control? Remember that the dupes and "useful idiots" are among the first to go in front of the firing squads when they take power. Sadly, I find that you may not even be a USEFUL idiot...

[A CA Guy]

"Hundreds of thousands of Drug Warriors"

We barely have a hundred thousand if that in our whole USA armed forces. Where are several hundred thousand Drug Warriors at? Under YOUR bed reading articles You wrote in Soldiers of Fortune magazine? LOL