Car 54 where are you....
Posted on 08/08/2005 11:15:30 PM PDT by neverdem
Edited on 08/09/2005 9:41:55 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The current zeal for sending doctors to jail for writing painkiller prescriptions may seem baffling, especially to the patients who relied on the doctors for pain relief. But if you consider it from the perspective of the agents raiding the doctors
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Car 54 where are you....
Hey, I was on Demerol pills for at least three months after a motorcycle accident that almost chopped off my arm.
I still have steel plates which set off airport metal detectors.
The doctor's nasty old nurse gave me a hard time every time I refilled my prescription, but I took myself off the stuff when I realized my brain was taking it, not my pain.
I might have more brain and will power than most, but it's a personal choice. I didn't want the drug to own me.
It helped me through rehab and I had 90% use of the arm, wrist, and hand again.
I'm not out robbing pharmacies looking for drugs.
LOL... They have a sense of humor, the black & white is car number 054.
Car 54 where are you???
"I don't need the problems" is a pretty accurate nutshell of what I was told.
The Feds have absolutely no business getting between doctors and patients in terms of prescribing medications.
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Recall that the US got along fine for 150 to 180 years without drug laws. Think Coca-Cola. In the 20s on could go down the the local drug store and buy morphine and cocaine. Yet, we were not a nation of addicts. Think about it.
"The Feds have absolutely no business getting between doctors and patients in terms of prescribing medications."
Agreed, it's a complete disgrace.
I used to be a potato chip addict, until I decided to stop. Some people will always find something to abuse.
Wow...
What if parents don't want their adult children using drugs? ;-)
That is a concept I could get behind. Unfortunately, freedom is a threat to the powers that be.
In principle I agree, but in practice, dismantling the welfare state is a prerequisite to this step. As things stand now, people who abuse drugs and end up unemployed, sick, and totally dysfunctional, are automatically entitled to have some of MY hard-earned money on the grounds that they "need" it. Until we're willing to leave addicts to their own devices, we need some drug laws (though not necessarily the ones we have now, nor the methods of enforcement we have now).
Once the welfare state is dismantled, there would still be a need for a few drug laws. E.g. controls on antibiotics so idiots don't create superbugs that endandge OTHER people. And controls on drugs which are prone to being abused by giving them to people without their knowledge, such as certain "date rape" drugs. Laws are needed to protect society, but shouldn't be used to protect individuals from their own stupidity.
Yet wastrels can be rich or poor. But not middle class. The middle class cannot afford to become wastrels - if caught up in it it is not long before it makes them poor. The cures for wastrelism in the poor come from therapies and therapists, social systems and techniques developed for the middle class. Something like physical therapy clinics found in shopping centers nationwide. The cures for the rich pretty much stay with the rich.
You will NOT have a real cures, individual therapies and social adaptations, for drug abuse from what are now the illegal drugs, the schedule 3s, cocaine and marijuana, UNTIL freedom is freed, until drugs are made legal -- maybe limited, maybe licensed, but legal to all adults upon demand and payment.
Finding "cures" is not the goal, IMO. What's important is to develop a culture where few people ever try this garbage, and where drunkenness and drug-induced stupors are not treated as a big joke. The easiest, cheapest way to do this, and ultimately save a lot of lives, is let the idiots who do try it and get addicted die without society spending money and other resources on them. People should get the loud and clear message that if they play Russian roulette with recreational drugs, no one will feel sorry for them and help them. Avoiding the disease is much more important than finding a cure.
When I said "cure" in the above, I was generalizing that term. I included all the social taboos and social wisdoms that, to give a bunch of crazy yet apt examples, today stop people from eating dog meat, from drinking whiskey for breakfast, from setting great bonfires in the middle of the house for heat and cooking.
Hell I just went dow to stock up on "over the counter" allergy meds for hayfever season and I have to tell ya I have purchased homes, firearms and automobiles faster than what it took to by 15 tablets of Corcidan (sp) D 24hr allergy tablets.
Once again we all pay the WOD tab for the criminals. I say give these little turdpolishers all the chemicals and dangerous drugs they want. When they OD and die or try an take my property to pay for their habit they die from lead poisoning then so be it.....we evolve as a society vs the BS we put up with.
Just my opinion of course..........:o)
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