NJ_Hoss
(Enthusiast)
02/04/04 01:26 AM
Re: what is this?

If he confiscated or destroyed your property without cause, of course the law affords you a remedy. However, I would again advise you to carefully consider the ramifications, including the likelihood of succes, and what you may or may not have been able to do since then to mitigate the outcome.

If you have a valid need for the medication, then your first action would realistically be to contact your physician and find a means for resuming your interrupted therapy. Your health should be your overwhelming priority.

From a layman's perspective, I suppose you could pursue the cost of the medication and perhaps any additional fee required for a replacement prescription. In the end, however, I have to believe that you would have a hard time demonstrating pain and suffering under the pretense that if your condition is so severe that the abrupt absence of your medication causes you pain and suffering, this fact would be readily apparent to healthcare providers and you should have no difficulty obtaining another prescription in its place.

As much as I advocate self-empowerment, I also recommend choosing one's battles wisely; and not even all moral victories are worth winning. Yes, the officer may have violated your rights. At the very least, you may have been bullied. It may have created a king-sized pain in the backside that may even be very stressful for you until you resume your treatment. However, in the end, and in your shoes as you've described them, I would certainly be pi*sed, but I would also probably decide that it wasn't likely to be worth the additional time and trouble it would take to pursue.

Sometimes it's best to let Karma take care of things; it usually does.

I'm sorry this happened.



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