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|8.20.04 @ 12:50PM|#
It sounds like the DEA is offering sound medical advice---which is not too surprising because they used real doctors to write it---about how to tell the difference between patients who are legitimately in pain and patients who are drug addicts.
The problem is that the DEA is threating to jail the doctors if they guess wrong too many times in the same way.
Well, the real problem is that a law enforcement agency is giving medical advice to doctors; as if drug enforcement was more important than medical treatment. Doctors don't need the DEA to give them an incentive to discourage patients' addiction to pain killers. They already have experience balancing the pros and cons of medical treatments. What the DEA should be doing is observing the practices of medical pain management and then crafting their enforcement policies so as not to interfere.
|8.22.04 @ 2:25AM|#
What the DEA should do is disband.
In a free society, why should the government tell me what to put in my own body, let alone jail my doctor for telling me. Lets hope the brownshirts don't take a dislike to antibiotics.
I especially liked the image of them bursting into the doctor's office with guns drawn. Reminded me of a scene from Brazil where the gov. battles an unlicensed repairman.