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I could be wrong, but I think that Big Brother is trying to take out the pharmacies and docs and make it impossible for people to order from these places. It's much easier to take out a relatively handful of OPs than it is to prosecute millions of Americans. I read somewhere on this board that 25 million Americans have purchased meds online. Our jails are stuffed to the max as it is.
If they take out the OPs, they have accomplished their goal. Most CP patients I know are not going to go buying their pain meds from some street dealer, so problem (in their eyes) solved.

As someone else stated, look at the bad PR this would cause as well. Hauling old ladies with RA, middle aged housewives with colitis, men and women with herniated disks, young mothers with endometriosis, people with blinding migraines, those on crutches and wheelchairs into court would not look very compassionate...and this is supposed to be "compassionate conservatism", isn't it? What a joke.

The pain march in Washington this year seems to be a waste of time in light of recent events. I do know this....if this crusade keeps up, the suicide rate is going to go up as well. I personally know of three people last year who took their own lives because they could not stand their pain anymore. One woman I am thinking of was an older lady with fibromyalgia. She was on Oxycontin prescribed by her doctor and was able to start enjoying life again. Playing with her grandchildren, doing her gardening, getting around to do her shopping....well the doctor got in trouble by the powers that be for prescribing too much oxycontin to his patients. She was cut off and was put on non narcotic meds. Within a year, she decided to go in to her garage, close the door, start the car engine and end it. As she was friends with someone in my family, her daughter came to tell him what had happened and why she had passed away. She left a note and said she could not stand to live the rest of her life where every day was filled with pain and more pain.

When they prosecute these physicians because maybe two or three people do something stupid, like overdose, take a medication without knowing how they will react and get into a car and kill themselves...do they even think of the hundreds of patients these doctors are treating that are now faced with a choice of living a life of excrutiating pain or committing suicide? Something is very immoral here.

How many people die each year from tobacco? how many from alcohol addiction or DWIs? How many people die from complications due to obesity? What's next? Criminally prosecute the people who make twinkies? After all, they are contributing to the obesity of Americans, which by the way, effects more people than prescription drugs abuse.

Here we have a terror warning from the DOJ. Says all Americans should be on alert because these scumbags are 90% ready to wage a massive attack on American soil. They say it could happen this summer. These people are in the US already. Maybe they should be turning their collective energies into fighting this very real and very scary threat. 3000 people died on 9-11-01 because of those animals that somehow got by the feds. Where are the priorities in this country? How about going after the people who are out to hurt others instead of bothering some poor person in pain, trying to live a productive life?

Again, I am on the soapbox. This just makes me so angry. Thanks for allowing me to vent on here.

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