Sorry everyone, something happened to this the first time I tried to post it and I thought well odd, maybe someone didn't like this being put here....trying again

Here's the article link don't know if you ever watch Nightline, but my roommate recorded this on Tivo and then said you HAVE to see this. The article summary from the Nightline site is at this link: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainMa...d=749207&page=1 (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=749207&page=1)

You probably do this already but when you visit if you are taking any pain meds or for that matter any other meds for you, do not bring them in with you when you visit and being the loved one of someone who is in prison make sure you only keep the minimum prudent amount of meds on you, only have a prudent reserve at home and so on cause the DEA is now starting to come after patients with legally prescribed legal pain Rx's :eek: that are in the DEA's feeble little brain "excessive". I was on an amount they would have considered "excessive" at home for weeks following my abdominal surgery in December. It seems that the next targets in the bid to make prison be big business in America are sick people who are in pain. (A recent Frontline broadcast already demonstrated prison is the new home of the mentally ill)

People are getting 25 YEARS in Florida and some other places for legal Rx's for medically necessary higher doses of pain medicine that allow them to live normal lives and in the case of one poor guy in the Prison they have put him on a morphene pump. He never sold his pain meds, never took them to get high or anything but the DEA seems to feel that being a pain patient is now a reason to be locked up. And dig this, though there was no real evidence for a case against the poor victim at all, they would have allowed him to avoid any time in prison if he'd made a plea deal (for using too many prescription pain pills as prescribed), I know it is hard to believe but I watched the entire episode with my own eyes. What nearly made me cry is the patient/victim said he now wishes he'd just pled guilty to the charges, because at least he'd be home with his wife and kids and on a morphene pump. :angry: I wish I could have sent you the entire program and not just the summary from their site.

What is WRONG with everybody????

:cry: OMG this is unbelievable. Sabrena

Well it really shocks me that these people that are trying to enforce all this. Havent any of them had a loved one who needed this medication or needed it themselves ever ? They should realize that not everyone abuses drugs. Pain medications are only abused when they are no longer needed but still used. If they are needed to function and have a better quality of life then who the heck are they to get in a patients face about it. If someone needs pain meds, they are already under stress and dont need that. I will be the first to admit that some patients abuse meds, but what about the doctors that give it to them, aren't they the actually abusers ? What about the drug companies that put pressure on doctors to hand out their drugs like candy. Maybe they should be going after the doctors that abuse their prescribing rights and not the patients and then the doctors might finally make a stand against the drug companies who manufacture these drugs.

I couldn't agree with you more, the real spin doctors in this mess are for sure drug companies. They will do anything to get people to consume MORE drugs.

Pain medications aside, I have an extremely rare disorder (dates back to Ancient Eygpt) for oh 3500 YEARS no one did anything and virtually everyone who had it died miserable slow excrutiating deaths while being blamed for putting on the typical extra 20% over usual weight without any bad habits.

Something odd began to happen with the advent of a class of HIV drugs called Protease Inhibitors which inhibit protease an enzyme crucial in proper digestion of protein and therefore many other aspects of health. While the Protease Inhibitors did well at slowing the progression of HIV they also caused many of the patients to get the aforementioned equally deadly disease that I have.

Doctors had told me my condition was "hopeless". "Well we just can't help everybody" is basically what I was told. Well I didn't take that well and went looking for my own answers. I wondered if inhibiting protease caused the condition I had, was it possible that I was not producing enough Protease? That turned out to be right and boy were they annoyed with me at the Drug companies, I got a few really scathing emails when I first started telling this story on various health sites. The drug companies were mad because I was dising their wonderfully profitable, though evidently harmful, very pricey miracle AIDS drugs. They didn't like the protease solution, you see protease is available from nutritional supplement companies WITHOUT a prescription for about $6 for a 30 day supply.

Drug companies follow doctors around with salesmen with samples (roughly comparable to the lobbyists in congress really) pushing their drugs, and it's considered totally legal :blah:

Just look at the recent incidents with all the arthritis drugs that were killing patients, but no one goes after these companies (so far) I hope one of these days the people from the pharmeceuticals industries who lie and push harmful drugs on people end up sitting in cells right next to heroin dealers and people from Enron!