In a recent RJ article, the chairwoman of the Assembly committee on health and human services stated that she was shocked at the abuse of prescription painkillers and was working with the attorney general to craft legislation to stop that abuse. Yes...and how well did that prohibition experiment go again? The only people such legislation would inconvenience are those individuals who currently obey the law. Drug pushers would love to see such a law passed, they could raise their prices. Rather than make medication that injured and suffering people need to even function more expensive and harder to obtain, why don't we simply enforce the existing laws?
What's that, madam chairwoman? Oh, I see, if we do that you can't posture before the media and grab a few more seconds of fame.
Prescription painkillers such as oxycontin, fentanyl, lortabs and the others all have one thing in common...they reduce pain and suffering. That reduction allows human beings to funtion in society, and on the job. If we go the nanny government route and meddle in peoples' lives yet again, we will be, in essence, the dungeon master torturing these people 24 hours a day. If you have ever experienced pain that an over-the-counter painkiller couldn't deal with, you might have an inkling of what I'm talking about. The people our good chairwoman wants to harm are those people who have been injured in an auto accident and damaged discs in their spine, people suffering from the ravages of cancer, people who have been badly burned, people who have been injured in combat and now have to deal with civilian life as an invalid...these are her victims, not the drug pusher.
He's cheering her on.
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