mihammer
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Reged: 07/19/03
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http://www.woodtv.com/Global/category.asp?C=2274&nav=0Rcd
under 'todays top news videos' 'online drugs put to the test'. this segment is borderline scare hysteria reporting
in my opinion.
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Marcus123
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Reged: 10/29/03
Posts: 22
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It's good advertising for the companies in a way at least until the legislation gets passed. I'm going to be honest. I saw a story like this one. I said to myself, "Huh, you mean, I can get something I want and need without begging my dr. for it." Why not? Now, I'm here and happy. People will see the news program and then business will go up temporarily for OP.
the piece was so sensational and idiotic. So they lead you to believe that some of these drugs are unsafe. But basically, all the piece did is advertise that it is possible to get real quality vicodin without a presciption. They even say "Our kids can figure it out" - well, yes, they can because you are advertising on the public news exactly how to do it.
I mean, sure, eventually, sensationalized media portrayals like this one will get OPS closed but for now, they are defeating their alleged purpose.
Wow! What a tragedy! People can buy vicodin without a prescription. that's more important than the 20 young men who died this week alone in Irag, right.
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LordHawHaw
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Reged: 10/27/03
Posts: 73
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I know my first IOP order, way back in 1995 or 96, was right after watching an ABC News report by Peter Jennings regarding the ease of obtaining prescription meds over the internet. He held up a package of xanax and a package of some pain pills, and said he was able to buy them 'with just a credit card' from a place called pharmacy-internatonal.com . I, of course, jumped right onto the computer to verify such a claim, and voila there it was. I placed my first order and the rest is history. I have no clue about pharma-international now as it's been many years since I used them, so don't take this as an indorsement of them currently. But yes, these scare stories have at least turned on several folks to the whole online OP community.
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redhill
Banned. Flames, offending others
Reged: 06/02/03
Posts: 278
Loc: Hell on Earth, for now
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I watched this sensationalistic piece of garbage. It's absolutely sickening that it is deemed appropriate by the powers-that-be, the pharmacists, the ever so corrupt FDA, and legislators that we cannot decide for ourselves when we are in pain.
I agree with the poster who said that "I can get something I need without begging my dr for it". What's more, in a lot of cases you can beg all you want, and still be ignored, called a drugseeker, and left suffering.
It is for our own protection that these bastards want to make it impossible for us to obtain medications that doctors dangle in front of us like a carrot.
I heard this so-called doctor in the interview talk about how inappropriate it is for people to prescribe or buy their own drugs. Oh really, and why the hell would that be? Freedom? What a bloody fallacy that is. Do we live and die by the government's decisions?
Controlled substances...it's enough to make me vomit, the notion that any one person or organization CONTROLS what I buy with MY money and put in MY body. It's chemicals, and someone I don't know decides what I get to do with my life?
Any independent thinking person, anyone with a will of their own should be fundamentally against this kind of regulation.
Another thing. They wrap the paranoia in some fear that what you might be getting is some sort of rip-off, not the real Vicodin ES in this case. What bullshit. No other country in the world even makes, or KNOWS Vicodin. It's a US drug. Hell of a lot of effort to fake those. It'd be easier to make fake capsules with generic Hydro.
My point is that reporters, legislators and enforcers are disingenuous. They give us the appearance that they are worried for our safety, and that is the reason they don't want you or I to have Vicodin. Think... Is that really the reason? They don't give a flying Best if kept off the board, honestly. As long as there's been governments and religious groups trying to screw us out of chemicals, public safety has NOT been the reason. Yes, those joints are really dangerous too..
edited for typos sun 2:23pm EST
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Tred
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Reged: 10/18/03
Posts: 260
Loc: USA
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Totally agree with ya' Redhill!! I'll say it till the day I die.. I should be able to do what I want to my own body, even if it may be harming it. Now if I pose a threat or danger to others, then that's another story, but pain medication that enables me to function like a normal human being and actually take part in society, isn't a risk in my book.......
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Marcus123
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Reged: 10/29/03
Posts: 22
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Amen Redhill!
"I heard this so-called doctor in the interview talk about how inappropriate it is for people to prescribe or buy their own drugs. Oh really, and why the hell would that be? Freedom?"
AMEN!
I have high anxiety. benzos help. I know my body. If I tell some dr. now I want benzos for my anxiety, they will try to push zoloft or paxil on me because the drug companies are pushing them on them.
I don't want to change my brain chemistry. I want to calm myself down. I know what I need to make my life better. I don't need some pompous Best if kept off the board with a God complex telling me what's best for me after talking to me for ten minutes.
I have been in this body for 30 years. I take very good care of it. I am really careful about what I put it into it and if I want to put benzos into it knowing the risks, then how am I different than the people who choose to put alcohol into their bodies or even french fries. I choose not to consume the latter because I think it's harmful. I support every other Americans right to choose whatever they want to put in their body but I don't see how substances that relieve pain or quell anxiety are any different.
Tylenol is dangerous. It destroys your liver. Don't even get my started on cigarettes. Are hydro and benzos worse? I don't think so. If you disagree, don't take them. You have the right to choose cigarettes, alcohol, donuts.
Let me make my own choice for my body.
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kjb595
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Reged: 10/14/03
Posts: 37
Loc: Michigan
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First let me say thank you for posting this as I was looking online at both woodtv and wzzm this morning trying to figure out who had done the story cause I wasn't home to see the report and I was very curious after the first report when the bought them and said they were having them tested to see if they were legit meds or not!!
Did anyone that seen this video clip or the actual news notice that when they showed the refill reminder email that it was Buymeds that they bought from?? I hope this doesn't have a horrible effect on them now!! In my opinion it might actually help with people now knowing that the medicine tested to be legitimate Vicodin!! Well I'll quit rambling now but I had to say THANK YOU very much for posting this! I tried searching all over both of those sites today and never thought to look in the video archives!! 
Kelly
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