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POPSWelcome to the World, Baby Palin (Oops, I Mean Johnston) I don't generally take any pleasure in the misfortune of others, but these people seem to revel in their trashiness. Somehow, Sarah wants to convince America that her family is the quintessential American family, and everyone else is just plain un-American. Thank you John McCain for putting "Country First" and losing this last presidential election and sparing the country such illustrious role models of how not to live our lives.
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POPSParkinson's Medicinal Treatment Turns Men Gay? I really have no particular opinion on this story as my knowledge of these matters is rather limited. But frankly, this is the first I ever heard of such a reaction from this kind of medication. Does anyone have any further information of a personal or clinical nature?
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POPSWar On Drugs Gets Crazier and Crazier It is remarkable that there are states who still look to prosecute pregnant women who happen to be drug addicts. Addiction is an illness; a treatable illness. I have never met a drug addict who is happy to be such. Instead of financing the phony war on drugs by locking up and prosecuting addicts, why not use some of that enormous amount of money on building more treatment centres and financing research into additional treatment measures for this illness? It's the perfect blame the victim mentality that some members of our society seems to thrive on.
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POPSWhite Collar Drug Pushers vs Street Corner Pushers. The U.S. government has a very skewed take on the drug problem in its midst. The prisons are filled with small time corner drug dealers, or people who were caught with a couple of joints in the pockets etc. But when a big pharmaceutical company is found guilty of illegally marketing and selling a dangerous drug via deliberate misrepresentation, there are all kinds of legal loop holes that will keep the perpetrators well away from prison bars, while permitting them to continue selling their wares after paying a relatively small fine. Is this justice? If the government is on such a war against drugs, they should really be throwing the book at this criminals in white colours and thousand dollar suits. This article in well worth reading in its entirety because it gives far more information about this outrage than I could fit in the limited clip. But once again, we are facing huge hypocrisy.
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POPSAn Important Article About Overzealous Drug Enforcement
This is a very serious issue. As a chronic pain patient, I have all too often been treated like a street addict due to my requirement of narcotic analgesic treatment for my pain. For the past several years I have been enrolled at a pain management clinic in their methadone program which affords me excellent pain relief on a reliable and constant basis. But there are many people who are not as fortunate as I am, and have to suffer needlessly with their pain because doctor's who want to help them cannot due to the overzealous DEA agents the Bush administration has instructed to crack down on physicians prescribing narcotic analgesics. This is not to say that there are no unscrupulous doctor's out there, who make money illegally selling prescriptions. But they are in vast minority of the millions of honest doctors whose only concerns are their patients well being. Patients should never be made to feel as if being sick is a crime and their docs should be able to help them.
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POPSA Hope For Clemency This story hits me especially hard. I am a chronic pain patient who went through years of surgery, rehab and tortuous treatments before I was finally able to hook-up with a pain clinic who is able to dispense the medication I require in what for a "normal" person would be an excessive dose. I admit that I live in Canada where the "war on drugs" has not become a totally out of control and paranoid crusade by the government. In the U.S. however, many doctors are fearful or writing prescriptions for narcotic medication because of government interference. There are any number of cases of doctors treating chronic pain patients with the medicine they need, only to lose their licenses due to overzealous federal drug agents. The real crime is when legitimate chronic pain patients, whose lives are miserable enough to begin with, are treated like junkies trying to hustle drugs in order to get their medical needs met. And that the doctors who try to treat them are so often harassed.
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