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07-26-2010, 08:23 AM

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CrackQuack

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Originally Posted by Angelic17

Geez,

this is so hard to make people understand. Maybe if they had a child that was using these drugs, or GOD FORBID a child or a loved one who has died because of this, they would be singing a different tune about these pain clinics, and Mickey Mouse doctors that are there prescribing this garbage to our kids.

Why try to MAKE other people see your point? You do know you cannot MAKE anyone do anything, and this is including the understanding of where you are coming from. Sure, it would be wonderful if we could all see where each other are coming from but the problem is often it's extremely hard to do and hense why so many arguments and disagreements happen. It's not a perfect world.
And for the unethical people, why are you not reporting them? Why aren't there people reporting them? Demanding an investigation to be done. If your son is TRULY healthy other than addiction, why are you not demanding that his doctor be investigated? THERE ARE LAWS out there for weeding out the bad doctors. There are laws designed to punish the mickey mouse doctors. They are there. You've just got to make enough noise.
I would personally, still not sing a different tune about how I feel toward yet another law against the normal law-abiding majority, in another feeble attempt to control the minority. People who want to do illegal things do not care about the law. Plain and simple.
And while neither of my children are addicts, my Father was an alcoholic who died by suicide in 2004. Both of my uncles are addicts. One shot himself when I was 13. He was the cocaine addict. My heroin addict uncle has AIDS. My pill addict Aunt is still alive and will steal anything she can from you. And she'll break into your safe to get it. But did that deter me? Oh no. I went on a crack cocaine rampage like the junk was going out of style.
We still need to start with kids when they are young. Quit letting the media teach them that drugs are bad, but are they depressed? Can't sleep? Can't get a hard-on? Can't consentrate? Can't pee? Can't do this, can't do that? Well, take this pill. Pill ads don't need to be on TV. Legit medication should always be a suggestion/prescription/discussion/ANYTHING between doctor and patient (and patient's parent's if under 18). NEVER by the television. No wonder we're so screwed up. I mean, really.. We banned cigarette ads and cigarette sponsorships, but the kids still get to see viagra ads, lunesta ads, anti-depressant ads... What sense is that?
And to be clear, I don't approve of censorship either. But since I don't like those ads, I don't allow my youngest son to watch TV during certain times of the day when I know they are more likely to show the ads. And if we see one, we discuss it. He knows Mom is a "crackhead" and knows what she is talking about.
It starts with us. I am not saying you went wrong with your son. Please do not think that, as sometimes, even when we do everything right our kids can still go wrong, but MANY parents leave life's instructions up to the school, peers, TV, and computer. ALL WAY WRONG. Parents are the first line of defense against drugs, violence, sex, and all of that.
Our government should never have stepped in to do our work for us. It's muddied the waters way too much.
And the reason we're debating this so hotly, most of us anyway, is because of the passion we feel towards the subject and how badly we ALL wish the other could see our POV. That's human nature. And if you really want to get your view across, use more than just the one mickey mouse doctor and your son as an example. ONE person, ONE clinic, ONE problem doesn't represent the entire nation. Of course it's on a totally personal level for you and I completely understand that, but we're not facing an epidemic of mickey mouse doctors and unethical practioners. We're facing more and more Big Brother Government making more and more laws that our police, courts, AND corrections cannot possibly handle. We have to look elsewhere to solve the problems.
I regret many things, but writing that 10 page paper was not one of them. Really opened my eyes up to how poor of a job our government is doing and how rapidly they are enslaving us behind concrete walls and steal cages.
Did you know that 1 in 25 adults gets at least ONE visit to jail a year, in the United States (Department of Justice Statistics)? And people are still breaking the law. People are still becoming addicted. People are still abusing drugs. Something to think about. Almost seems as if the more laws we make and the harder we try to push, the harder they push back in effort to prove some thought-provoking point they think they have.....