Dear Friends in Pain,

So we cross the line.

So we determine the issue is NOT the ADDICT or even the
person who suffers CIP.

We determine the issue is the way the DEA, and government
handle the ADDICT.

We determine the issue is:

1. Stricter penalties for the addict.
2. Forced treatment centers (jail inhouse) and longer
terms of UAs.
3. Stiff FEDERAL penalties for addicts found to use or
sell prescription medications.

But what we see is the economics that exist, meaning in short
driving up the price of Class 1 drugs (those not concerned medically
useable), and this too will raise the price of Class 2's abused.

So it is up to you, your local and state representatives, and US as
a group in CIP to push harder for the stricter penalties, let the
push be on the criminal not the client, the list goes on and on...

Don't say "it's not me, not my physician, I'm safe..." For as long as
any ADDICT is out there stealing your medication, selling it or
shooting it, as long as YOU do not advocate and see pain management
and never go "on the street" to kill your pain, then all you do, is
SUPPORT the abuse of medications developed to help those in
serious pain LIVE...

Peace,
Karen

A New Kind of Drug War
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2005/nf20050228_1996_db013.htm

EXERPT

REMEMBER PROHIBITION. Here's how Harvard University economist and
BusinessWeek commentator Robert J. Barro summed up the record of the
war on drugs in his paper Getting It Right: Markets and Choices in a
Free Society: "The experience with drug enforcement shows that
prohibitions of recreational drugs drive up prices, stimulate illegal
activity, have only a moderate negative effect on consumption, and
impose unacceptable costs in terms of high crime, expansion of prison
populations, and deterioration of relations with the foreign
countries that supply the outlawed products."

It's time to consider a dramatic shift in policy. Instead of the
battle cry "war on drugs," let's try the mantra "legalization,
regulation, and taxation." We should regulate narcotics just as we do
cigarettes and alcohol, restricting sales to minors and imposing
steep excise taxes.



Karen Hallenbeck~Sikorsky~George BS,RN,UM,QC
Owner-Moderator
"AnGeLsInPain"
"OneVoiceInPain"

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AnGeLsInPain

Interqual Certified
Published Psychiatric Researcher
Advocate for those in CIP, HIV, Psychologic Pain
"A Higher Power is necessary to find the ability to withstand self
destruction.."


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