[headsonpikes]

Unspeakable.

[headsonpikes]

Very rough justice ping.

(but Federal-compliant!)

[mysterio]

Drug laws are insane. We conduct no knock searches to make sure that someone isn't hiding a plant that grows naturally in America. We are willing to trade the Bill of Rights to make sure someone doesn't grow that plant.

[Sirc_Valence]

Can you post the rest of this article for those of us that don't care to register at the NYSlimes site?

[frogjerk]

Whether these efforts have done any good is debatable (and a topic for another column), but the harm is clear to the millions of patients who aren't getting enough medicine for their pain.

So millions of patients are in the same condition and predicament as this man? I don't think so.

The real problem in this particular case is the lack of common sense on the part of the police, DA and judge.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I worked for Mallinckrodt, Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri for quite a few years as a chemist. At the time, Mallinckrodt was one of only two legal manufacturers of bulk medicinal narcotics (codeine, morphine, fentanyl, cocaine, etc.) All dosage form manfacturers obtained their bulk narcotics from these two sources.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s Mallinckrodt multiplied their prices by a fact of four (400%) each year because the DEA wanted them to raise the price of MEDICINAL narcotics to the street price to discourage diversion.

In other words, the prices of these drugs are now thousands of percent higher than necessary.

Health care costs have risen from 1.5% of GDP in the 1950s to 15% of GDP today because of the monopoly on health care granted to the federal government by the controlled substance laws.

[nmh]

Something smells here:

"What followed was a legal saga pitting Mr. Paey against his longtime doctor (and a former friend of the Paeys), who denied at the trial that he had given Mr. Paey some of the prescriptions. Mr. Paey maintains that the doctor did approve the disputed prescriptions, and several pharmacists backed him up at the trial. Mr. Paey was convicted of forging prescriptions."

If a doctor DOES prescribe pain medication there is no rational reason to deny to a friend and patient in pain. It doesn't make sense. With all the emphasis on "pain" I suspect the handwriting test for the scripts didn't match the doctor and a pharmacist isn't going to notice the difference.

The man also refused a plea bargain that would have kept him OUT OF JAIL. NO doctor is going to refuse to write a pain prescription but WOULD be leery of a patient that FORGES prescriptions.