http://www.wfla.com/story/27788004/tampa-doctor-and-wife-indicted
“It is unusual to be able to directly link a prescription that has gone to someone that has contributed to their death,” said Michele Phillips from the NOPE Task Force. http://www.nopetaskforce.org/
Imagine that… this TV station asks the opinion of a representative of a group seems to appear to be against the use of any opiates for legit medical need so that NO ONE will be able to get their hands on some opiate doses and do themselves harm.. most likely because them and/or their immediate family are in denial that they have a mental health issue and turn a blind eye to mental health therapy that the person needs.. and when the person starts accelerating their abuse of various substances until they reach a point of no return..
So then they have to find someone/thing to blame other than their own defective gene pool and their failure to help their loved one from going down the path they did… so they join group(s) with others that are dealing with same self-guilt.
Also note that the quote said that they are even concerned about a prescription medications that MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED to a person’s death. So I guess that you can disregard the alcohol, Heroin and untold other illegal substances that toxicology results states was in their system. All the while.. our system never/seldom tried to determine if the death by drug overdose was in fact accidental or a suicide. More denial of mental health issues.
Of course, it would cost resources to investigate the illegal act of committing suicide… where as claiming that a death was a accidental overdose does not require an investigation and serves the DEA’s agenda of the war on drugs much more.
While the identities of the victims in Feldman’s case are only identified by their initials, Phillips knows the feeling of losing someone from a prescription drug overdose. Phillips lost her son several years ago.
“There are times when I wake up in the morning and I have to remind myself to breathe,” said Phillips.
Imagine that.. a orthopedic doctor.. making enough money on his practice to buy a million dollar home and office bldg…
Have you ever seen Gov. Rich Scott’s home .. beach front homes in the Naples area – aren’t cheap..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott
at age 34, he co-founded Columbia Hospital Corporation with two business partners; this merged with Hospital Corporation of America in 1989 to form Columbia/HCA and eventually became the largest private for-profit health care company in the U.S.[citation needed]
He resigned as Chief Executive of Columbia/HCA in 1997 amid a controversy over the company’s business and Medicare billing practices; the company ultimately admitted to fourteen felonies and agreed to pay the federal government over $600 million, which was the largest fraud settlement in US history. Scott was not implicated and no charges were raised against him personally.[3][4][5][6][7] Scott later became a venture capitalist.
Of course, if you follow the history of our Federal Government.. when it comes to public corporation violating various laws and/or defrauding the Medicare/Medicaid .. they never go after anyone at the corporate level.. they just fine the corp and allow them to go back to business as usual.. So Rick Scott made no profits from his association with Columbia/HCA to help him eventually buy his multi-million dollar beach front home ?
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I still think that the issue of if the medication is off the street or legal should be important in all cases. Criminal or need.
Sadly as you know needing help with pain caused by a disease should not be a crime. Over the years I have sunk into poverty, being denied enough pain medication to allow fun with my grandchildren and make to feel like I have committed a crime.
I am wearing down with just the need to get my medication each month and have that to look forward to every 30 days for the rest of my life. And so correct that going to the hospital is usually a useless trip for anyone on certain medication. Not sick is the first words in most E.R. anymore even if you have glass in your feet. It’s a scary life knowing help isn’t available until my wonderful primary care is. I have wondered if I would be better of in jail with some rights.
Painkills2.. you are entirely correct.. no gene pools are perfect..but if you have a parent that has a mental health issue.. it is a 50/50 chance of having some mental health issues as well.. not necessary the same as the parent… nearly all of us are predisposed to some sort of disease. I have seldom heard of a disease state that was cured by ignoring the symptoms. Some cancers cannot be cured or put into remission.. some with addictive personalities may never become a “recovering addict”… but those who believe that prohibition will solve all of issues in our society.. is just – IMO – another sort of denial of how basic human psychology works.
I was told that my maternal grandfather was an alcoholic (and a policeman). One of my sisters (out of 5) was an alcoholic (still living, but no longer an alcoholic). I came from a big Catholic family, so maybe the DNA odds were against me?
Since I have suffered from constant pain for most of my life, I have also had drug abuse problems. And after all that time on one drug or another, plus multiple drugs, I am finally free of all prescription drugs — and I have no desire to return to them…
Except to treat the unmanaged, unrelieved, and debilitating constant pain. But even for that, I’m not (currently) willing to debase myself through the current procedures to access those drugs. As a terminal cancer patient said, I’d rather suffer. (Can pride overcome pain? Only for a short time…)
Now, with my DNA and medical history, am I a drug addict or not? It doesn’t really matter what the truth is, because the DEA and the medical industry (along with my medical records) have given me that label. It is one of the reasons I ended up in a mental hospital for unrelieved pain (which has happened to other pain patients too).
The last time I was in the hospital for surgery, I had to fight for my pain medication. I have to wonder if the next time I am unlucky enough to find myself in a hospital, will I have access to any pain medication at all? Seriously, in that case, what would be the point of going to the hospital?
“So then they have to find someone/thing to blame other than their own defective gene pool and their failure to help their loved one from going down the path they did… so they join group(s) with others that are dealing with same self-guilt.”
Survivor’s guilt is not uncommon — but I think recognizing it may be. Our whole justice system is set up to blame someone when things go wrong. In the past, doctors who treated drug addicts with drugs were criminalized and jailed — now it’s doctors treating both drug addicts and pain patients (of course to the government, they are one and the same).
But I’m going to have to object to your assumption that family and friends can stop drug addicts from their negative pathways. In fact, I’ve seen cases where all that “help” has actually done more harm than good.
When parents see their kids getting into drugs, there’s usually consequences. Usually strict and punishing consequences. And when the result of those consequences is more drug abuse or an overdose, parents feel guilty. Maybe I should have done this? Or this? Maybe if I had done this instead of that, it would have made a difference…
And then there are those parents who ostracize their kids for doing drugs, and those that give up after years and years of trying to help… The guilt from these parents is quite raw, although it’s usually these kinds of people who need to blame the death of their child on anything — and I mean, anything — else to keep from looking at the role they played.
I’m sorry for the long post, but it’s these guilt-ridden, middle class, white parents who are whispering in every politician’s ear, corralling more victims into their tragedy, causing more suffering in the lives of pain patients.
What’s also tragic is that many of these people cannot see the forest for the trees — they have been unable to connect their personal tragedies to the decades-long tragedy that is America’s drug war. Instead, they are making things worse, making the drug war last longer, creating even more victims…
And c’mon, you can’t blame DNA — no one’s DNA is perfect.
(And Rick Scott is slime.)
“…when it comes to pubic…”
Sometimes, typos are funny 🙂