Johno02 wrote:
And what does a law restricting prescribed medicine to persons needing it have to do with stopping illegal trade in those drugs??
The reasoning is that there are many "pain clinics" where they are actually store fronts for legal prescription pain medications. You go in see a Dr, get a script and then go to another clinic down the street and do the same thing over and over. A significant portion of the street drugs are procured in this manner.
And the medical purists and DEA maintain that there is over-prescribing of pain killers and a group of addicts being created through legal prescriptions.
All that may be true, but it really seems the burden is being placed on those individuals who really need the medications rather that dealing with the drug problem in a less onerous way.
Having lived with a person with severe, chronic pain, I see the issues here. It's not a situation anyone would like to live with.
