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States Finally Begin to Control Painkillers

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A growing number of states, alarmed by the rising death toll from prescription painkillers and frustrated by a lack of federal action, are moving to limit how these drugs are prescribed. On Thursday, Massachusetts lawmakers passed a bill expected to be signed next week that would sharply restrict the number of pain pills a doctor can prescribe after surgery or an injury to a seven-day supply.

Finally! A whole culture has developed of doctors dispensing this vicious garbage like candy and people happily guzzling it like it’s a normal thing to do. There is not even a vague suspicion visiting anybody that pain can be addressed in any other way than mindless pill popping.

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    Finally! A whole culture has developed of doctors dispensing this vicious garbage like candy and people happily guzzling it like it’s a normal thing to do. There is not even a vague suspicion visiting anybody that pain can be addressed in any other way than mindless pill popping.

    I think this mentality has been around for longer than many people think. A lot of prescriptions/drug taking arises from the fact that other methods of addressing pain take time, money and patience. When my mother gave birth to me, she hung out in the hospital for a week.

    Before there were widely advertised prescription drugs, there was the drug culture in the 1960s and 1970s. Prior to that there was a lot of alcoholism that was tacitly accepted. All sorts of drugs were over the counter in ways that would be shocking today.

    People with access to doctors self medicate with prescriptions. People who don’t self medicate in other ways.

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