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YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!

Our government is spending BILLIONS OF DOLLARS for the War on Drugs, and drugs are both cheaper and more widely available than ever.

What’s a good bureaucracy to do? Divert attention from failure, obviously. How is that done?
PICK AN EASIER TARGET! Reports of arrests and convictions make enforcement agencies look good, thus justifying budgets. So, attention was diverted to…....physicians!

As quarry for D.E.A. agents, doctors offered several advantages over crack dealers. They were not armed. They were listed in the phone book. They kept office hours and records of their transactions. And unlike the typical crack dealer living with his mother, they had valuable assets that could be seized and shared by the federal, state and local agencies fighting the drug war.

Now, you may figure that this doesn’t concern you….and it may not—now. But,

If enough doctors are jailed or scared into not writing prescriptions, it’s conceivable that this drug war could have more impact than the ones against heroin and cocaine - doctors, after all, are harder to replace than crack dealers. But even if there’s less OxyContin on the street, is that worth the suffering of patients who can’t get the painkillers they need?

When you have your knee (or back) operation, and can’t get the best analgesics that are available because your doctor is afraid of going to jail, what will you think THEN?

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