Dear Friends in Pain,

As long as the "lie continues" there is no truth or justice for those
in nonmalignant intractable pain (NIP). Again the media strikes hot fueling
the DEA who continually badgers, and subjects those suffering pain which
is often at suicide levels over the common denominator:

"An addict is an addict and breaking the law is a crime."

That statement is simple but why is it law enforcement agencies are now
becoming "higher" than physicians trained in all areas of the human body
and mind; why is it the truth is denied time and time again?

You see this young man would have known it were "ibuprofen" if he
bought a bottle of the same and took (3) out. If the (3) Oxycontin were
found undigested what was it that killed this young man; did he have
other opioids in his system, legal or illegal. In short for him to steal
Oxycontin from a man terminally ill should include:

1. Felony drug charge
2. Theft
3. Suicide
4. Damages

In some states "suicide" is a crime and the damages; well was this
terminally ill man without medication due to this? Does this boy have
a history of criminal charges, and certainly has he used drugs in the past?
Did he have a history of depression did he want to die? The damages is
a misnomer for NO ONE BUT NO ONE know the damages done to
NIP clients as a group throughout the United States today, not to mention
the physicians still strong enough to support this need.

They term this "accidental overdose" and to what benefit how does it
help those who suffer PAIN and the criminals who are continuing to get
away with the theft, abuse, and addiction of our medications?

Thanks to Cyn from OCPM for this link....

Peace,

Karen G.





Teen's death shows dangers of prescription-pill misuse

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050619/LIVING/506190383/1
007/LIVING


MINNEAPOLIS -- It was a mistake, a fatal mistake, said Dan Kaschner.

His 17-year-old son, who couldn't sleep and had a bad headache,
snatched a handful of pills off of a friend's kitchen table and took
at least three.

The pills were OxyContin, a powerful pain medication. On May 1, Chris
Kaschner died from the accidental overdose in his Eagan, Minn., home.

It's the kind of tragedy experts say reflects a culture that is all
too cavalier about prescription drugs.

While use of marijuana and some other illicit drugs has declined
among teenagers and young adults, abuse and misuse of prescription
drugs such as sleeping pills, painkillers and amphetamines, while
still low, has risen nationally.

Like 'fast-food craze'

Experts say it is the inevitable result of a pill-popping society.
Teens and young adults today are the first generation to be raised in
a culture of relentless drug advertising and wide acceptance of pills
for everything from tendinitis to mood swings.

"It's becoming sort of like the fast-food craze," said Chris Johnson,
19, of Chanhassen, Minn. He is a recovering alcoholic who is a senior
at Sobriety High in Edina, Minn., a high school for students
recovering from addiction. "There is something for everything now."

Kids are misusing prescription drugs not just to get high, but to
relieve stress, anxiety and sleeplessness, experts say.

Pill abuse is growing

National rates of prescription drug abuse among young adults are
high, according to the federal government's National Survey on Drug
Use and Health.

In 2003, the survey found that nearly a fourth of 18- to 25-year-olds
had used a prescription drug, including methamphetamine, for
nonmedical reasons in the previous year. That was slightly higher
than the 2002 rate. About 5 million of the approximately 60 million
school-age kids in the United States use medications prescribed by a
doctor, said Carol Falkowski, director of research communications at
the Hazelden Foundation in Center City, Minn.

"The kids learn from an early age that taking a pill produces a mood
change," she said. The majority of prescriptions are for attention
deficit disorder, she said. But many are for anxiety, depression and
other mood disorders.

Compared with their parents, young people are more exposed to
prescription drugs than to illicit ones, said Linda Simoni-Wastila,
an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of
Pharmacy in Baltimore, who studies drug-abuse trends.

As a result, some teenagers think nothing of taking prescription
drugs from their friends -- a stimulant to study for the big test, an
anxiety pill before the big party, a sleeping pill when they can't
sleep, experts said.

Dan Kaschner, 51, the father of the Eagan teenager who died from the
accidental overdose of OxyContin, said he believes his son, Chris,
took the pills because he was anxious and feeling poorly. He said he
doubts Chris even knew what they were.

OxyContin, a powerful narcotic that induces a euphoric high, is
primarily prescribed for people who have severe and chronic pain.
Chris took them from a friend's father who has terminal cancer,
Kaschner said.

By the time he got home that night about 10:30, he had taken at least
three, his father said. The coroner found three undigested pills in
Chris' stomach, and there were traces of more in his blood. According
to the drug's label, a common dose is one pill every 12 hours.

"He must have thought it was like ibuprofen," Dan Kaschner said,
though he added that Chris probably also knew he shouldn't have taken
the pills.

Chris died in his sleep that night, and was found by his twin brother
the next afternoon. The medical examiner ruled his death an
accidental overdose.















Karen Hallenbeck-Sikorsky-George BS,RN,UM,QC

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