Prescription drug abuse on the rise, easy accessibility blaimed

[emazur]

3 minute audio clip:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/cce8b69b-3159-4a49-b79c-8ceeed23f0f9/drugs

cliff notes:
- prescription drugs are increasingly the drug of choice
- more death from drugs than car accidents reported in 16 states
- youths aged 19 - 24 from 1999-2006, usage increased annually
- youths can get any drug in short period of time, internet and social networking is making things even easier

Your thoughts? The libertarian position (which I hold to) is to legalize all drugs, and deregulate prescription drugs. Most people who will use drugs will use drugs regardless of the legality, and the theory is that with softer drugs like marijuana being easily available, people won't turn to the more dangerous drugs.

 

[constituent]

Sounds like people perceive a need that is not being met by the usual black market suppliers. A good thing, all-in-all.

 

[cheapseats]

Sounds like people perceive a need that is not being met by the usual black market suppliers. A good thing, all-in-all.

Is there no END to the rooting for Free Market optimization?

NO, it is NOT a good thing when an increasing percentage of a population increasingly feels the need for chemicals just to DEAL, just to feel OKAY. Maybe perchance to feel Good.

 

[constituent]

NO, it is NOT a good thing when an increasing percentage of a population increasingly feels the need for chemicals just to DEAL, just to feel OKAY. Maybe perchance to feel Good.

I do not believe that conclusion can be drawn from the study. What it lead me to believe was that people are increasingly going to prescriptions as the "drug of choice."

Maybe you should calm down...

 

[cheapseats]

I do not believe that conclusion can be drawn from the study. What it lead me to believe was that people are increasingly going to prescriptions as the "drug of choice."

Maybe you should calm down...

Ya think?

It seems to me that the CALMNESS, some might say COWARDICE, with which the once fiercely free American people are rolling over and ACCEPTING all manner of knavery, thievery and brutality and, FURTHER, the timidity with which they are EMBRACING American Mediocrity as the trade-off for fueling a "recovery" (read that, return of stability to an economy predicated on war, regulation, taxation and incarceration), by entering other-serving alliances that will help the globe's billions of "deserving" people "catch up" with our erstwhile level of Conspicuous Consumption, is very much PART OF THE PROBLEM.

I sense that the Great Not Silent But Not Strong Majority of internet activists are prepared to do the toxic Get It Off Your Chest While Bending Over shuffle for the rest of their lives. I am not.

Maybe I need BETTER drugs.

 

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They SQUANDER national resources on a War On Drugs, decade after bloody profitable decade, WHILE relentlessly pimping other DRUGS on teevee, jacking up the prices of prescriptions.

Marijuana -- which NO sane, intelligent and objective person can argue comes even CLOSE to the toxicity and downside of alcohol -- is kept capriciously illegal while MONSANTO snaps up prime arable land from small farmers. As part of the TRAVESTY OF COMMERCE, they incarcerate your fellow countrymen by the MILLIONS, feeding ANOTHER profit structure that is predicated on degradation of Humanity . . . all to serve this one diabolical agenda, namely that a HANDFUL OF INVITATION-ONLY ASSHOLES AND THEIR POSTERITY shall wield unparalleled power and live in unparalleled splendor.

I feel certain that CALMNESS is not the appropriate response.

 

[ScoutsHonor]

+100+

 

[constituent]

Maybe I need BETTER drugs.

or different ones... altogether...


maybe...

 

[btalex1990]

This is my thought

I wouldn't blame drugs dealers anymore or the fact that we don't have enough stupid anti-drug laws. It is not the drug users fault why they are addicted, it is because they are putting stuff in the drugs to make it more addictive!

I blame Big Pharma for all this junk going on!

 

[Printo]

Im a pharmacist and yes prescription drug abuse is a problem. So is alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use. Cracking down with a police state mentality wont work. Prohibition didnt work as we saw back in the day & they will not work today & they will not work in the future either.

Personally, even as a pharmacist, I believe the WoD is a failed war. I believe alcohol and tobacco are just fine as they are. I believe the illegal street drugs should be made legal or decriminalized. I believe that prescription drugs should be available for all people to buy (but since many of them are of danger to the people, I believe a pharmacist, like myself, should have the right to use discretion in dispensing these medicines). As free marketers, I believe you all could support that. Im the pharmacist, theyre my drugs & its my pharmacy, I'll sell to who I damn well please.