Clifford Bernstein, medical director of the Waismann Institute, a Beverly Hills, Calif., facility that specializes in rapid detox, said an increasing number of patients tell him online pharmacies were their principal source for drugs.

"Four years ago my practice was almost all heroin; now it's 70 percent prescription drugs. I attribute that largely to the ease of obtaining these drugs on the Internet. With the Internet it is easier and, legally, it is safer," Bernstein said.

Addicts who use Internet pharmacies are often middle-aged professionals who can afford the high costs of buying drugs online, Bernstein said.

Bernstein -- who, as a pain physician, prescribes narcotics to patients -- said patients become dependent on drugs as the pain subsides. As addiction takes hold, tolerance develops and the drugs are needed for users to function and to avoid withdrawal.

"Once they are clean, these people do just as well off the drugs as they do on the drugs," Bernstein said.

The above quote by Bernstien sounds like he too is talking out of both sides of his mouth. If perscription narcotics and other controlled drugs are of no use , why does this 'doctor' prescribe them in the first place?????

Silly me, I just answered my own question. This guy prescribes the additicting drugs and then sends his patients to his rehab center for cleaning up.

This person is no doctor, he is a quack.