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That may have been true in the past but the situation has rapidly changed over the last decade. Amphetamine and opioid abuse stemming from over-prescription is

That may have been true in the past but the situation has rapidly changed over the last decade. Amphetamine and opioid abuse stemming from over-prescription is becoming far too common and doctors are now experiencing the full spectrum from people genuinely in pain to high-risk heroin addicts. When the latest public health scare is a drug abuse epidemic attributed to the medical system instead of the black market, it's far harder to ignore the futility of the war on drugs.

icantdrive55 10y ago
I'm not so sure amphetamine, and opioid abuse are the result of over-prescribing. I honestly think people are genuinely misserable. They are given a drug that makes them feel just better. Some just want to feel better. Of course, it's easy to blame it on a medication, but if it's not that prescribed pain killer, it will be something else. We need to stop saying we are "The greatest nation on earth." For some, it might ring true, but for the vast majority of us it isn't. It's just a country, with a lot of laws, and becomming very hard to make a living. We are thrown into a society, and just expected to "make it". We were brought up being told; you can do anything if you work hard enough. So many of us are just completely dissalusioned. I won't get into all the reasons. Oh, the reasons. No, we aren't starving to death, but the pressure to live up to the success of past generations is stiffling. We got some hope with the invention of heterocyclic drugs. (Prozac, etc). They failed spectacularly. Doctors went from "The boy geniuses--to mechanics." I look at the average Doctor, as just a luckey guy who got accepted to med. school, and slightly more ethical than the typical lawyer. Hell--I never had a mechanic say this while under my vechicle, "It's an art too?" Yea, I'm no fan of the golden boys. So now, on so many levels Doctors shouldn't be the ones deciding policy. They are just too tied to the money their profession that extorts from us. Extortion might be harsh? It's more like being held hostage? We need to pay them in order to prevent disease, or feel better? (The AMA is basically a huge lobby group. They don't want patients doing anything other than making a office visit, and getting a script.) Do I have a better system? No. That's the problem. That said, I would like to take the power away from doctors. I would like to see a Federal Statute put into place. It would be this: If any patient has been on a drug(maintance drugs mainly--blood pressure drugs, drugs that control diabetes, many psychiatric medications, pain meds, etc) for longer than five years; that person should be able to obtain the same dose of medication without seeing a doctor. Of course antibiotics would be off limits to everyone. And patients would have to provide any required blood work their medication requires. I would further like to see all street drugs decriminalized. Something on the lines of what Portugal did. Thats it. Will it happen? Probally never. We will go on spending a fortune on locking people up for just wanting to feel better, or have more energy. I would rather see that money go into free education, free housing, and free medical care.
ajb 10y ago
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- kefka 10y ago
  That's hellbanning for you. It's also a good reason to look at your user page via a private session in your browser every so often, esp if you have no comments to you.

icantdrive55 10y ago

I'm not so sure amphetamine, and opioid abuse are the result of over-prescribing. I honestly think people are genuinely misserable. They are given a drug that makes them feel just better. Some just want to feel better. Of course, it's easy to blame it on a medication, but if it's not that prescribed pain killer, it will be something else. We need to stop saying we are "The greatest nation on earth." For some, it might ring true, but for the vast majority of us it isn't. It's just a country, with a lot of laws, and becomming very hard to make a living. We are thrown into a society, and just expected to "make it". We were brought up being told; you can do anything if you work hard enough. So many of us are just completely dissalusioned. I won't get into all the reasons. Oh, the reasons. No, we aren't starving to death, but the pressure to live up to the success of past generations is stiffling. We got some hope with the invention of heterocyclic drugs. (Prozac, etc). They failed spectacularly. Doctors went from "The boy geniuses--to mechanics." I look at the average Doctor, as just a luckey guy who got accepted to med. school, and slightly more ethical than the typical lawyer. Hell--I never had a mechanic say this while under my vechicle, "It's an art too?" Yea, I'm no fan of the golden boys. So now, on so many levels Doctors shouldn't be the ones deciding policy. They are just too tied to the money their profession that extorts from us. Extortion might be harsh? It's more like being held hostage? We need to pay them in order to prevent disease, or feel better? (The AMA is basically a huge lobby group. They don't want patients doing anything other than making a office visit, and getting a script.) Do I have a better system? No. That's the problem. That said, I would like to take the power away from doctors. I would like to see a Federal Statute put into place. It would be this: If any patient has been on a drug(maintance drugs mainly--blood pressure drugs, drugs that control diabetes, many psychiatric medications, pain meds, etc) for longer than five years; that person should be able to obtain the same dose of medication without seeing a doctor. Of course antibiotics would be off limits to everyone. And patients would have to provide any required blood work their medication requires. I would further like to see all street drugs decriminalized. Something on the lines of what Portugal did. Thats it. Will it happen? Probally never. We will go on spending a fortune on locking people up for just wanting to feel better, or have more energy. I would rather see that money go into free education, free housing, and free medical care.

ajb 10y ago

Mods: sibling comment by 'icantdrive55' is 'dead' for no clear reason.

kefka 10y ago
That's hellbanning for you. It's also a good reason to look at your user page via a private session in your browser every so often, esp if you have no comments to you.