Anti Federalist
04-28-2011, 07:26 PM
God help you if you are chronic pain sufferer in the United States.
You think maybe, at some point in time, "the people" will tire of being "cracked down" on?
Yah, didn't think so either...
Getchya some of this Doc!!!!
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Drug Control vs. Pain Control
A crackdown on opioid prescriptions will hurt patients.
Jacob Sullum | April 27, 2011
http://reason.com/archives/2011/04/27/drug-control-vs-pain-control
Last week, unveiling a plan to curtail "diversion" of opioid painkillers, Obama administration officials said they aim to "strike a balance between our desire to minimize abuse of prescription drugs and the need to ensure access for their legitimate use." This balance will never be achieved because the two goals are fundamentally irreconcilable.
Since pain cannot be verified objectively, there is only so much a conscientious doctor can do to make sure a patient is not a malingerer, an addict, or a drug dealer. At a certain point, he has to choose between trusting his patients and helping the government enforce its arbitrary dictates regarding psychoactive chemicals. If he sides with his patients, he risks his license, his livelihood, and his liberty. If he sides with the government, it is inevitable that some patients will suffer needlessly.
Doctors are less inclined to prescribe opioids, even to legitimate patients in horrible pain, when they worry that regulators, police, and federal drug agents are looking over their shoulders, ready to second-guess every decision and transform honest mistakes or medical disagreements into felonies. Every additional layer of scrutiny only compounds the drug war's chilling effect on pain treatment.
You think maybe, at some point in time, "the people" will tire of being "cracked down" on?
Yah, didn't think so either...
Getchya some of this Doc!!!!
http://mnchange.org/images/82.jpg
Drug Control vs. Pain Control
A crackdown on opioid prescriptions will hurt patients.
Jacob Sullum | April 27, 2011
http://reason.com/archives/2011/04/27/drug-control-vs-pain-control
Last week, unveiling a plan to curtail "diversion" of opioid painkillers, Obama administration officials said they aim to "strike a balance between our desire to minimize abuse of prescription drugs and the need to ensure access for their legitimate use." This balance will never be achieved because the two goals are fundamentally irreconcilable.
Since pain cannot be verified objectively, there is only so much a conscientious doctor can do to make sure a patient is not a malingerer, an addict, or a drug dealer. At a certain point, he has to choose between trusting his patients and helping the government enforce its arbitrary dictates regarding psychoactive chemicals. If he sides with his patients, he risks his license, his livelihood, and his liberty. If he sides with the government, it is inevitable that some patients will suffer needlessly.
Doctors are less inclined to prescribe opioids, even to legitimate patients in horrible pain, when they worry that regulators, police, and federal drug agents are looking over their shoulders, ready to second-guess every decision and transform honest mistakes or medical disagreements into felonies. Every additional layer of scrutiny only compounds the drug war's chilling effect on pain treatment.