Re: reason on Opiophobia

In article <1182967514.869715.84580@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<sadhant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://reason.com/blog/show/121087.html

Thanks, Sadhant. I posted this as a response:

Interesting in this discussion of "rights" is the absence of anyone
discussing where doctors get the positive right to dictate people's
choices to them via the prescription pad. It's not just about getting
law enforcement off of doctor's backs, it's about getting doctors off
our backs, too. Having to pay to be some malignant narcissist's
punching bag isn't exactly my idea of "liberty," particularly as I can
obtain abuse off the streets for free.

By requiring patients to get a permission slip before they can purchase
what they need to relieve their torture, doctors can not only charge
monopoly rents but can exploit patients in a hundred other ways as
well. They are hardly the innocent victims of a vendetta, but active
players in the hell people with chronic pain have to endure in this
system.This system was, after all, set up to benefit doctors by robbing
people of the ability to treat themselves, and it is only now that the
monster they created has turned around to bite a few of them in the ass
that they are scurrying like frightened rabbits to distance themselves
from it.

Then there are the drug companies, who get monopoly rents for opiate
medications that drive the costs through the roof, whereas in any truly
"free" market a month's worth of the most powerful opiates would cost
less than a bottle of aspirin.

Doctors should be free to recommend or not recommend any particular
treatment, and we should be free to tell them where to stick it when we
disagree with their recommendations.

--Sean C
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