Comments on: Behind The Scenes Of Rx Drug Dealing

Prescription Drug Dealers Can Be Both Users And Doctors

[why_not_nar]

Simple answers, give abusers lifetime sentances, get them all off of the street. If we want to follow that argument, the first thing we need to do is to ban all mind altering drugs. Alcohol, caffience, ban them. Alcohol is probably one of the worst mind altering drugs around. Lets start by banning that.
The only problem with this approach is the scope. Alcoholics comprise 10-20% of the population...add in other illicit dugs and we are at 30+% of the adult population.
I wish that there were simple answers. There aren''t.

[bosco1237]

Precription drugs - 100,000 per year.
Marijuana - 0
Scorecard on deaths caused per year.

CBS News lumps marijuana together with crack and heroin in evening broadcast, then I count 12 commercials in half hour from drug companies. Absolutely shameful. Marijuana should be legal for any responsible adult over 18. If your deemed responsible enough to be handed a weapon and told to snuff out another human''s life in the name of oil, then I think you are responsible enough to make the decision to consume a more benign recreational drug than alchohol or tobacco, both of which cause thousands of deaths per year. Tell the people the truth, please!!! Stop the propaganda! Space aliens aren''t going to swoop down and lure your girl away. Your not going to turn homosexual. You won''t go insane. These are all absolute lies that our government has spewed out for decades.

[scorchpc]

For those speaking of "pot", I suggest relegalization will be VERY profitable for the Big Pharm and Tobacco companies, and well anyone who can mass distribute good quality product.

I have been wondering lately if we ought to have some "relegalization" ballot initiatives. 2008 may be a good year for that...(think about it)

[scorchpc]

The problem is not the drug industry. The problem, as I see it, is making things crimes where no party is harmed against their own will.

If people want to take drugs, buy them, sell them, or whatever. That''s fine with me.

So long as they don''t harm me, my property or my rights, or anyone elses for that matter, what they choose to do to themselves is none of my business. And outlawing these things only complicates the problem. Putting these people in jail hurts them much more than in helps them, in most cases. Which in turn, hurts society more as well.

Again, if people want to use drugs. That''s their choice. They own their body. Not anyone else, government''s included.

The debate/discussion needs to be about this. Not about putting people in jail, most of whom are harmless to society. Those that are harmful would still go to jail, but only when a true crime is committed, a crime against someone''s being, rights and/or property.

Putting something in your own body is not a crime. And we should have the freedom of choice to do it.

Let''s stop treating drug users like 2nd class citizens.

But God help you if you decide to self medicate with POT....it s the Bayer Asprin type of help to so many different things. All the people driving around under the influence of perscription drugs, but POT is SOOOOOO bad for you...not one case in history has turned up blaming POT for anything negative, except one...its against the law. But doctors can prescribe diet pills to kids under 18, Lortabs to people already having an addiction problem with other pain medications, it just makes me sick, because like a lot of other people posting on here, its all about the Giant Pharm companies and how much money they can get......

Big Pharma wants everyone on the Prescription Bandwagon.
There is so much profit for Big Pharma and the Doctors let the money wheel roll. A very wise physician, my father, always told me, "Drugs are for Prescribing, not taking."
Side effects are not mention by the prescribing doctors of today, they address them with another prescription when the patients complains. Our system is a travesty.

[gramto7]

Drug use is not all the drug company, drug dealer, doctors or users fault. People turn to drug to relive pain or to get something they like form the drug. There is not much I like from the side effects of drugs and never have talked to anyone that liked the whole package. They just tolerated to get by what ever pain or demon was eating on them.

gc.
Posted by gcouger

Thank you for this... Most people here seem to think that anyone taking pills do it for the jollies. I haven''t been able to get any pain pills in over 8 months because of people like those in this article. They are causing doctors to lose their licenses, and many docs are now not writing prescriptions for meds for chronic pain. I have fibromyalgia and psoriatic arthritis and am having to just ''deal with it'' thanks to the jerks out there.

[runningralph]

slim1h2o,
Whatta man! My kinda guy. If everyone did like you we wouldn''t be reading headlines about prescription drug epidemics.

[gordon.couger]

What are all the people taking drugs to get away from? Is it 24 a day news of nothing but bad news that tries to advance the reporters or publishers agenda by killing and eating the other view point? Is it mothers an fathers working 50 and 60 hour weeks never seeing the kids long enough to teach them any better? Are we all so out of shape our back hurt from carrying around a 50 or 60 pound gut with no exercise? Is it the pain of too much month at the end of the money?

However trivial there are reasons people turn to drugs to relive their physical or mental pain. Put an end to the pain an much of the drug use will go away.

Drug use is not all the drug company, drug dealer, doctors or users fault. People turn to drug to relive pain or to get something they like form the drug. There is not much I like from the side effects of drugs and never have talked to anyone that liked the whole package. They just tolerated to get by what ever pain or demon was eating on them.

gc.

[slim1h2o]

And there is way too many doctors out there that hve no scruples, and are in it just for the money. And care little for the patients that unknowingly walks thru their door.

I have refused pills from these people, cause I knew they wouldn''t help, and the docs. just became miffed, I told him he wasn''t doing a very good job on my case, and walked out. I''m not the only one that''s been in this situation, and had to fire a doctor.