Why can doctors prescribe highly addictive drugs, yet drug dealers serve years in jail for selling them?

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Hi Icant.........,

it's just a question of who paid the highest bribe to get the "license" to sell them.

The pharmaconglomerate paid the "Danegeld". The official Mafia went the independent route.

Clear now?

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Karma Singh

Wowie there now,

this needs a large update with all the sycophantic nonsense being preached:

Firstly, Jack,

doctors are forbidden to help you in any way which reduces profits for the pharmaconglomerate. Truly helping you can lead to revocation of their medical license.

Paul,

to the contrary, they will be called before a disciplinary tribunal if they prescribe too little.

Potent,

please do the research BEFORE you publish the results. There are many who have become mental cripples and long-term residents of psychiatric institutes by using weed.

rDug,

same answer as to Potent. Doctors are denied access to this information. The medical associations instruct them on what to prescribe upon pain of license revocation. The decision about which drugs are compulsory and which are forbidden lies entirely upon the size of the "donation" from the pharmaconglomerate to the medical association.

Ally,

you really have swallowed the propaganda hook, line and sinker haven't you? Pharmaceutical medicine is, in fact, far and away the number one cause of death and maiming throughout the First World. Pharmaceutical prescriptions kill more people each year than heart attacks and cancer combined.

Black cat,

doctors are denied access to basic information about biophysics and how the human body truly functions. There sole purpose is to be the "front line" outlet for the pharmaconglomerate. That is what they are primarily trained to do.

Sami H,

to the contrary, available evidence shows that 90% of pharmaceuticals are useless, ineffective and irrelevant. Almost all pharmaceuticals have extremely debilitating "side effects", i.e. they cause direct (often irreversible) damage to the body's organs. The decisions are based upon highly suspect "tests" and the size of the bribe.

Katie,

see my responses above. Generally, doctors are forbidden to give you the help you actually need. This is why daily growing numbers are leaving the pharmaceutical sickness industry and setting up as independent health workers. In Germany this has now reached the proportion that more conscientious doctors are leaving the sickness industry than are being trained! This is what the people who really know, i.e. those on the inside are telling you with their actions.

Medical professionals prescribe drugs to be used in such a way that they help the patient deal with their pain. If they are misused by the patient - or illegally sold by a drug dealer, there is no control, no direction and no way of knowing for sure what drug you ingest. Drug dealers are breaking the laws that are in place to protect all citizens from obtaining substances that when improperly consumed can cause death. You can't stop someone from overdosing on a prescription, but when it comes from a doctor at least they were given instruction and if they choose to ignore it - it is on them.

Because doctors go through years of training to do so.

What I suspect you may be getting at is why can doctors get away with prescribing them for seemingly recreational use. And that is something to which I do not have an answer. I find it hard to imagine it would happen as readily over here in the UK compared to the US. I'm on pretty heavy duty painkillers, that can be used as a recreational drug, and they're well controlled. If I suddenly started asking for stronger and more frequent doses my docs would know something was wrong and most likely say no.

The difference is that Doctors pay thousands of dollars to go to school for 8 year plus more on top. They know what drug do and its there call to balance out the good effects with the bad. Drug dealers don't care, there in it for the money and deal it till there at, while doctor cut of peoples meds. if addiction is there.

According to the law it is because the doctor has gone to college and knows what the drugs are going to do and when they are needed etcetera

Personally I am against the current drug laws but that is a whole other question all together

As Deepak Chopra said: "Police focus on street drug dealers when more people become addicted to prescription drugs through their doctor. Many expensive Hollywood doctors are just drug dealers with medical degrees."

Drugs are tested and rated based on many different factors. While some medication may be addictive, its tendency to negative side effects may be very low. Illegal drugs have been made illegal because they have been deemed unsafe.

Although these decisions are highly subjective, they are based on hard evidence and research.

The drug dealers don't have M.D. licenses. Doctors can go to jail for prescribing them too much - the doctors have limits on how much and how often they can give them out too.

When I lived in Canada, I saw these pill distributing doctors overtly using this practice on Native Americans in particular. They gave them 7 days worth of pain killers, and had them come in every week to obtain another prescription so that they could keep billing the government for these office visits. It was extremely unethical, and led to suicides, health issues, etc. for the victims.

But there are legitimate doctors that exist and do a good job monitoring patients on these highly addictive drugs who need it to survive or maintain some comfortable quality of life. With medical advances in this day and age, folks are living when they would not have survived 20 years ago, so their quality of life needs to be addressed and dealt with. Keeping someone alive, and asking them to live in enormous amounts of pain is ridiculous.

Drug dealers on the streets are out for their own profit and do not maintain the level of liability licensed MD's do. Carroll O'Connor sued a drug dealer years ago for the death of his son, but this is relatively rare and he was able to do so with his finances and elevated celebrity status. I appreciated what he did in bringing this to our attention, but it seems that the point he was trying to make did not stick.

Doctors, by virtue of their title, have an elevated status in this world. I have found in the States lately that we, as patients, have no right to an opinion of our medical needs. I don't recall it being this bad 25-30 years ago. All of the advice we hear is to "take charge" of your health, go into your visits with questions in hand, but the majority, not all, of health providers I have encountered have some level of resentment that we somehow "know better" than they.

I have been fighting for a diagnosis of Lyme disease, with positive test after positive test, but I cannot get traditional doctors to acknowledge I have it and cannot get proper treatment, it is such a ridiculous battle. I have been accused of doing drugs, being depressed, showing symptoms of "stress", but I know my own body and stress levels. There is no middle ground, there is only "right" or "wrong" in the standards.

Another example : The typical human's body temperature is 98.6 degrees. If my temperature is above 98, I am sick (which is rare), but I cannot convince a doctor of this. I take my kids to their pediatrician every year for check ups, but I don't run in everytime they have a sniffle, I let their bodies fight things off and initially use homeopathic methods and nutrition, we rarely use antibiotics. But when I go in for the annual visits, I take criticism that they have not seen the kids for a year - could it be possible that they were healthy? On the rare occasion that I have to call on antibiotics, I get the lecture on overuse, and often initially get turned down for my request. I have to force them to open the file and see that the child had not been on antibiotics for years, then they reluctantly believe me.

Medical providers have also had to become very defensive because of the over involvement of lawyers in the medical field. The frivolous law suits have driven up our costs all over the health industry, and we all have been victims of these unethical legal practices. Of course there are legitimate law suits, but more often than not, it's the frivolous ones that make it in front of a judge. The majority of the settlements, especially class action suits, end up in the pockets of the lawyers.

I feel badly for good caring medical providers that have to fight these stereotypes and work within this system.

Then there are the for-profit pharmaceutical companies who are far more worried about the value of their stock, than the patients taking these meds!

Because doctors supply these drugs to ppl who need them and they are assessed on why they need them... if anyone could just sell wahtever street drugs they like there would be alot more troubled ppl in this world.... drugs harm ppl and they harm the families of such ppl.