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To: puborectalis who wrote (749878)	10/28/2013 12:28:26 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575154

>> not in favor of OTC narcotic meds......too many Americans already Rx for pain including the burgeoning area of PainMed specialists who own their own MR machines and self-refer. But it is really the same sort of problem. To be sure, while I support marijuana legalization (not for medical use, but just generally), the abuse of drugs like Oxycontin, Fentanyl, and even Methadone prescribed for pain are rampant. The well-run interventional pain clinics serve a useful purpose, but I've seen a number of them that were out of control (one of my former customers, after I quit doing business with him, had an office manager who refilled some poor guy's pump in a Walmart parking lot and the guy died; the last time I was in that office it looked like a high-rent flop house, complete with week-old pizza on the floor). But I know of FP docs here who have prescribed unconscionable quantities of these drugs for extended periods of time. I'm sensitive to this topic because I have been to several funerals of kids who abused this crap over the years. The point of the question, though, is I don't know where you draw the line because the epidemic of abuse cycles through different drugs over time and the same argument that is made about prohibition of marijuana and alcohol can, at times, be made about Rx drugs.