To anyone reading Miss EttiKit's post... Yes!!! What she said! For a free society to truly be free the Gov't must get out of personal concerns such as these. The Govt's only resposibility is to inform. The reponsibility for oneself must rest on each adult individual's shoulders. We have been moving yet farhter and farther away from this. Case in point. Recent disclosures obout Ozzie. He is an adult and NO stranger to drug taking. So it was his Doctors fault about a pattern of over prescribing? Lol. Yes granted that in a Doc/ patient relationship ya wanna give th Doc some trust and do what he says, but gimme a break. After maonths and months of walkin like a zombie ya gotta ultimately take the reins yourself. With more "Big Brother" intervention it will be actually harder to do just that as we are (the Govt) removing yet one more item/sense of resposibilityfrom the individual. Past a certain point it was not the Docs fault, Ozzie could have simply stated, "Hey Doc, these bloody scripts o' yours have me bumpin roun' me house like a bloody zombie!" Did he interact with his Doc that way. I don't know but would guess ... No! To get to my point, in atruly free society you must keep personal responsibility. That means bearing the consequences of ones actions both beneficial and detrimental. In a free society to be free you must keep intact not only the freedom to succeed buut the fredom to fail. Without the freedom to lose there is no freedom to win!
Ummmm, oops. The soapbox is closed.