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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (129618)	2/2/2017 5:19:23 PM
From: bart13	Respond to of 219905

Yes, California is such a moral and ethical state, they must truly love graduating drug abusers, as well as so many illiterates. /sarc Their pride in the LA Unified School District educational system even provides the example for the failed US Dept. of Education.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (129618)	2/2/2017 6:53:50 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 219905

Doctors and nurses have the highest degree of drug addiction of any profession. Easy access as your article notes. The AMA and other medical associations sell a fairy tale of 15%... Anyone who works in a hospital knows this is BS. ====================== An incredible 46% of anesthesiologists have been through the California drug diversion program after they were caught using the drugs they have access to. This is the result of two factors. 1.) The drugs they have access to are very pleasant and physically addictive; 2.) The drugs they use are tightly monitored with used and unused vials checked back into the pharmacy after each surgery along with real-time record-keeping of the amount administered during each procedure. Infrequent quantitative tests of used vials to determine if the the liquid remaining in a used vial is pure Fentanyl or has been diluted is all it takes to determine if the anesthesiologist or pharmacist is using. A 2008 study states, "Fifteen years after the original article, 'Opioid Addiction in Anesthesiology', was published, addiction still remains a major issue in the anesthesia workplace. Between 1991–2001, 80% of U.S. anesthesiology residency programs reported experience with impaired residents, and 19% reported at least one pretreatment fatality." - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Ultimately a large, but poorly documented, percentage of anest