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In the Old Doctor's Desk
After my grandfather died and we were going through the stuff that he left in his desk, we saw a prescription he had made out for marijuana. Then somebody screwed that up -- I think Dupont.
Carl Peter
posted by
cpklapper
on January 11, 2007 at 2:02 PM
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It is always the very few that mess it up for everyone.
It is a damn shame. It is a patriarchal attitude. Excuse me but I am a grown up now and I really resent big daddy always taking this attitude!
posted by
mysteria
on January 10, 2007 at 11:57 PM
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Julia
It's the big if, and it's a no. I wrote on Crime and law enforcement for most of my writing career. Criminals don't really follow the rules. That's why they're criminals.
Teens don't follow rules either. And I guarantee you, the black market in schools for this stuff is just as popular as scalping concert tickets was when I went to school.
You jumped to what the masses jump to ...if it helps. In with those painkillers, I've had a spell at the beginning where I was on oxycontin. Again, I felt like a criminal. Teens got it (from a multitude of sources), crushed it and snorted it to get high. So I had to deal with my family thinking I would. They just read the latest findings of what teens do. All of a sudden, doctors were given the 3rd degree for prescribing.
People who are in pain take painkillers to relieve pain. If you get looped on it, you're not in enough pain, take something lighter. What the stuff did for me was allow me to function. When it stopped doing that, I used something else. If I got better, I stopped taking it. The rationale was if I had to go to a hospital injured, what would they give me that would work.
The point is, I'm a responsible, law abiding citizen and the rules really, really hurt me. Do you honestly thing oxy use went down in those who abused it. The answer is no.
I'm on Myspace. I was looking up crazy pages, literally. There are pages devoted to executed serial killers. That's an article I'll be doing. Well, in the comment section was a smiling boy...who is now dead. His mom had made a page in honor of him.
1)The mother was stomping mad threatening death to all of those who killed her son, a mere innocent in life.
2)He had just gotten out of rehab for oxycontin abuse (about age 19) when a good buddy gave him a handful.
3)this guy killed her son, mom cried because he had gone through detox so his normal illegal abusive dose was way too high. how could he give that to her son. Um..he became an addict somehow. At what point is he responsible and when is she responsible. (I'm including her for reasons that will come through as I go through this.)
4) She cursed, giving the big MFers who created oxycontin and they must die to. Why because they couldn't control the kid, and he couldn't control himself. As with cold meds, with me and Talion's wife, WHY should the people who use it correctly suffer (Talion's wife has asthma, as do I and my son. We can die from this, and quickly.)
5)Mom's photo array of her son showed what she called his one finger wave. There were two photos the proud mama put up of her son giving the finger to people. One looked like it was prom night. She seemed pretty proud.
6)Yes, this is a big part her fault for the goofy behavior allowed above, and Did you get the part where mom was commenting (good comments) on a dead serial killer's site. Are we getting that she's pretty low rent?
I'm terribly disgusted with having to worry with what a drug addict will do. I have family members who were/are serious crack addicts. One is dead, shot in the head. He turned my deceased aunt's house in to a crack house as she was dying on the main floor. Putting cold meds behind a counter has little bearing on the lives of these people. It only affects normal people who will step up and give their licenses. Criminals won't be doing that.
It's shooting a rifle in the air in the hopes of a bullet coming down and hitting a target. I resent paying for the mistakes of idiots and scum on a daily basis.
posted by
terpgirl30
on January 10, 2007 at 11:47 PM
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talion
I'm so sorry. That's sort of the point that I want to make to Julia. You have a reason to take what you take, and you feel like a criminal. Do you think it will make a big dent in meth activity? This stuff hurts people who follow the rules.
posted by
terpgirl30
on January 10, 2007 at 11:34 PM
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It is really very difficult when you have to face such situations.
posted by
afzal50
on January 10, 2007 at 5:46 PM
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well, they can't make meth from a painkiller (at least I don't think so)...
so if keeping those cold meds behind the counter helps fight that war, I think it's worth the inconvenience and the scrutiny. Of course that's a big IF...
posted by
Julia.
on January 10, 2007 at 11:58 AM
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terpgirl30
My wife has asthma and bad allergies (especially to cats and we have three) so a plethora of sinus medication used to be a staple in out medicine cabinent. Not anymore. Now she has to forego a needed dose or two in order to make her limited supply last. She doesn't want our names appearing in the great book of potential felonies.
posted by
Talion
on January 10, 2007 at 11:40 AM
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Can't you just smoke a big fattie?
It's just as green as Nyquil and...well, it won't do shit for your cough, but that's not really the point.
posted by
mark2556
on January 10, 2007 at 11:20 AM
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