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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.

sailingaway
04-28-2011, 07:29 PM
They want a centralized database of every time you buy allergy medicine already, what sort of violation of privacy is it going to boil down to this time?

Anti Federalist
04-28-2011, 07:32 PM
They want a centralized database of every time you buy allergy medicine already, what sort of violation of privacy is it going to boil down to this time?

Pr - eye - va - see???

Wut?

Anti Federalist
04-29-2011, 04:48 PM
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Sola_Fide
04-29-2011, 04:56 PM
Do these idiots know that there is nothing they can do to stop people from finding opiates if they want or need them? All this is going to do is criminalize innocent people and doctors.

Lets really make those chronic pain sufferers suffer!

Matthew Zak
04-29-2011, 05:00 PM
The Last time the government got involved in this affair I lost someone close to me. this person's doctor was no longer allowed to prescribe the amount that they had been taking for 25 years. The pain was too much and they ended their own life.

Just what we need, more government. :(

Anti Federalist
04-29-2011, 05:04 PM
The Last time the government got involved in this affair I lost someone close to me. this person's doctor was no longer allowed to prescribe the amount that they had been taking for 25 years. The pain was too much and they ended their own life.

Just what we need, more government. :(

The state is evil.