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Posted on 03/01/2008 8:42:36 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
President Bush is asking Congress to work with his administration to end illegal sales of highly addictive prescription drugs on the Internet to stem a rising number of people dying of overdoses.
Bush used his weekly radio address to highlight his administration's 2008 national drug control strategy, which the White House is releasing Saturday.
The president said that while an estimated 860,000 fewer young people are using drugs today than in 2001, the abuse of prescription drugs is a growing problem.
"Unfortunately, many young Americans do not understand how dangerous abusing medication can be, and in recent years, the number of Americans who have died from prescription drug overdoses has increased," Bush said.
One factor behind the trend is the availability of highly addictive prescription drugs on the Internet, he said.
"The Internet has brought about tremendous benefits for those who cannot easily get to a pharmacy in person," Bush said. "However, it has also created an opportunity for unscrupulous doctors and pharmacists to profit from addiction."
Bush's drug policy adviser, John Walters, said the governor is now focusing its "supply, demand and prevention policies with the goal of seeing the same reductions that we have achieved for illegal `street' drugs."
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Although as a conservative, I can understand the idea that a country full of drug addicts would ruin our Republic. Freedom for the sake of freedom itself.
I dunno. Thank God I don't have to make real policy decisions. I can just sit here in my pajamas and criticize people.
Nothing like the nanny state fixing something I never heard of. Where are the links to all these stories about prescription drugs bought over the Internet killing people.
Kill it. Should it be killed? ask later.
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Just tell the rats it involves steroids and baseball.
It's sad that your opinion of your fellow countrymen is so poor that you think everyone would become a drug addict if given the chance, which is why internet pharmacies need to be closed. Well, those pharmacies are open now, and not everyone is an addict.
Restricting one's way to utopia hasn't work so well for others and isn't likely to work well for us either.
I forgot!
Jorge we all know for sure that ten's of thousands of Americans have been killed by illegals and you haven't done jack about that! How about addressing the worst problem first.
How did I ever vote for that bum!
Good point. I could probably buy Oxycontin or Percoset online right now...but I'm not interested.
You don’t have to talk to yourself. I’m here. I’ll listen.
Nonsense, as if there is some great difference between Rite Aid as a brick and mortar store and an internet pharmacy.
To be blunt, Drug Companies are not maximizing profits due to lost sales to internet stores overseas and Canada.
As a Conservative, I say “Trust the People to make the right choice” we don’t need more Nanny Statism when it comes to people’s personal medicine choices.
I can’t believe you can get addictive drugs over the Internet. And if you can, no new laws are needed. Just arrest the people who are selling them without prescriptions.
Don’t get me started on the baseball steroid thing. In fairness to the feds, they have no interest in prosecuting professional athletes for personal HGH or steroid use.
That’s a step in the right direction.
One regulation leads to another. Stay away from my internet.
I thought the idea of Conservatism was that you couldn't trust people to make the right choice when it came to drugs, pornography, and the World's Oldest Profession, which is why those things needed to be illegal.
You mean running our country don’t you.
I suppose next we’ll have S.W.I.T. teams.
That’s why I love this place. Where else can I find like minded people who only want to be left alone and don’t want Gubmint interference?
Arrest everyone. It will accomplish nothing, but from a selfish personal standpoint, if everyone was in jail, it would mean less traffic for me on the roads.
The internet is such a great thing. We’re regulated at work, school, churches, public places.
Is the internet the last refuge for free speech?
LOL. Maybe having all of the cops sit at computers wouldn't be such a bad thing either ;)
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