It should be a Federal Felony to obtain and Opioid Prescription if not in Pain

Define "pain".

Personal Responsibility? wrote:

I keep reading people blaming distributors, pharmacists, politicians and

doctors for Opiod problem. The addicts should be imprisoned for 10 years

minimum hard labor and all personal assets seized and auctioned off.

No kidding. Every person on the database should be arrested and tested by DEA doctors for pain. If no pain, then they should be arrested, cars, homes, abd boats impounded and sold, and the person should be charged with a felony.

Are you saying it should be illegal to willingly ingest something into your own body?

Yes, because the war on drugs has worked so well in this country.

But don't worry, this time it's a lot of white people too, so instead of criminalizing the addicts there will be lots of programs to help them.

But that makes non-prescrip opies, OK?

Aren’t the vast majority of people who are addicted to pain meds in need of them to control chronic severe pain? You know chronic pain from musculoskeletal injuries steming from accidents, assaults, etc....and degenerative diseases plaguing the middle-age & elderly as we live longer. Perhaps the medical system could figure out better & safer ways to effectively control pain instead of highly-addictive dangerous pharmaceuticals 🤔

Pain don't hurt

J Dalton wrote:

Pain don't hurt

That's a corney scene from "Road House" where Swayze is trying to impress Kelly Lynch (the ER doc) with his shirt off while he gets stapled at the hospital. When I saw that film at the theatre, my date got so excited during the scene that I thought she was going to have an organism. 😅. And it didn't help that the rest of the evening all she talked about was Swayze. 😕

This is a horrible idea because pro-government forces (especially progressive Democrats) will engage in pain denialism. That is, they will impose burdens of proof that pain patients cannot reasonably meet for financial reasons and then say that these people are not in pain when in reality they are in excruciating pain.

yep

I still think Tom Marino would have made a great drug tsar. The failing fake news media made him withdraw from consideration.

Tom did his best to get America hooked on opioids. Isn’t the prime responsibility of a drug tsar to promote drug use?

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Personal Responsibility? wrote:

I keep reading people blaming distributors, pharmacists, politicians and

doctors for Opiod problem. The addicts should be imprisoned for 10 years

minimum hard labor and all personal assets seized and auctioned off.

Imprisoning addicts is a really stupid and expensive thing to do.

But let's accept your premise: How do you prove someone is not in pain? Think about a really hard run you did where you felt like you were going to die. How would you prove that to someone.

A good number of people become addicted to opioids from simple procedures. They are given Vicodin (or something) for the pain and take a few and are hooked. Others can take the same amount and walk away without an issue.

I think pharmacists are the least culpable here as they often end up being the ones that recognize and report doctors who are writing prescriptions.

If you really are interested in learning more rather than just spouting off on a message board, check out an interview on EconTalk about this subject. The really irritating part is how people on Medicaid/Medicare get the scripts and pay very little for the pills and then resell them for big bucks. Essentially the taxpayer is funding the epidemic.

A Nation in Pain wrote:

Aren’t the vast majority of people who are addicted to pain meds in need of them to control chronic severe pain? You know chronic pain from musculoskeletal injuries steming from accidents, assaults, etc....and degenerative diseases plaguing the middle-age & elderly as we live longer. Perhaps the medical system could figure out better & safer ways to effectively control pain instead of highly-addictive dangerous pharmaceuticals 🤔

I do not know the breakdown, but a good number get addicted following simple procedures where they are given Vicodin. They get hooked maybe because their brain chemistry is susceptible to the drug.

Lock up the addicts and throw away the key.

The best part is millions of new jobs are created by making Opioids a crime.

I was considering listing all of the ways in which this proposal makes no sense, but it just wore me out because the list was so damn long.