Another Victim in the War on Some Drugs

[Jeeper]

Mr. Jeeper,

Are you in the illness management profession?

Pain management?

How many prescriptions is too many?

How bad does it hurt?

Do you get to decide how much someone else hurts?

What difference does it make?

So let's say he needs (or thinks he needs) 100 pills a day. So lets say he has 1000 pills. (a lot of pills)

So he has a 10 day supply.

10,000 pills would be a 100 day supply. I get my prescriptions 90 days at a time.

Everybody admits that he is not selling them. So why does it matter? He is buying the pills. Even if he is using the pills as fertilizer, he is not selling them.

Please tell me again why it matters.

Even if you take off the trafficking charge he was still guilty of 14 other charges. People from 2 juries couldn't find him not-guilty. It probably was for a reason.

This case is nothing more than armchair quarterbacking by people who truly know nothing about the case more than what a 1-page article says. I am fine with arguing that the law was wrong. It is hard to argue that the result is wrong when you really don't know the true facts, of course when did that ever stop the omnipotent users of any bulletin board. Writing false prescriptions for yourself is and should be illegal. If it wasn't then the drug companies could get sued for allowing people to kill themselves with medicine. Doctors are there for a reason. I am not saying the doctor was right or anything but allowing anyone to self medicate isnt really a good idea.

 

[Mad Man]

So, let's transmorgrify the pain pills into ammunition.

So, he has 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

So, he has a pickup load of ammunition.

So, he has a steamship load of ammunition.

So, he has an underground cavern full of ammuniton.

So, he is an avid shooter.

Or just worried about his ability to get ________ in the future, so he's stocking up now.

This case is nothing more than armchair quarterbacking by people who truly know nothing about the case more than what a 1-page article says. I am fine with arguing that the law was wrong. It is hard to argue that the result is wrong when you really don't know the true facts, of course when did that ever stop the omnipotent users of any bulletin board.

Fortunately, only one side of the argument does that.

There is a group of people who would never engage in that type of behavior, and they -- and the rest of us -- know who they are.

 

[Byron Quick]

I am not saying the doctor was right or anything but allowing anyone to self medicate isnt really a good idea.

One problem with this. The reasons that the doctor would not prescribe more pain medicine directly leads to the reason that any severe, chronic pain sufferer has to self medicate. The laws governing pain medications, and the ways in which they are enforced-lead physicians to be scared out adequately treating severe, chronic pain.

I have both personal experience with this and professional experience with this.

There's a new medical specialty-pain control. It's a direct response to this law 'enforcemtent.' Depending on where you live, it's very possible to live more than a hundred miles from the closest one.

For the last twenty eight years of his life, my father was on narcotics for pain after ten or so back surgeries. There was maybe a month during that time that his pain was controlled. He spent about four nights out of every week, sitting on the side of his bed while massaging his legs. Unable to sleep because of pain.

Not only did he have problems with doctors over his medicine, he had problems with the law over his medicine.

 

[Lupinus]

When we moved here from PA my mothers pain medication was cut from eight pills a day to four of the primary and of another secondary one she was cut from six to four.

Granted down here she doesn't feel as bad because the weather helps considerably but to get pain meds is like pulling teeth down here, even with her two previous doctors talking with the ones she has found down here saying that she needs it. They all want to send her to pain managment down here. Do they care she has tried pain managment plenty and it doesn't work? No course not.

Same thing with me when I had knee problems. Everytime I went to the Dr told him the anti inflamitory crap wasn't working. What do I get? Another anti inflamitory under a different name. Went through five the last finaly gave me a bleed somewhere in my digestive system...he wanted to give me a weaker one and something to strengthin my stomache. I told him he could shove both where the sun dont shine I want REAL pain meds or Im finding another dr. Finally got ultram out of him and ironicly enough a real pain med got rid of my pain. Imagine that