Government Wants to Track Patients' Use of Prescription Medicines

[Paradise]

"Updated: 12:35 PM EST
Bush's Anti-Drug Plan Targets Painkillers, Stimulants
Government Wants to Track Patients' Use of Prescription Medicines
By JENNIFER C. KERR, AP

WASHINGTON (March 1) - President Bush's national anti-drug strategy will for the first time target the use of pain relievers, sedatives and stimulants for non-medical purposes, a problem that has exploded in the last decade."

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does this feel uncomfortable to anyone else? i only take hypertension medication. btw, the repugs and * gave
me this condition starting with the impeachment thru today,
and into my nightmares...

[rfranklin]

1. Exactly why is this a problem that requires...

the incresingly scarce resources of our government?


I don't see any problem. Rush Limbaugh was high on Oxycontin for years and no one even noticed. Why the fuck is this a problem?

[el_gato]

2. because the fascists want to spy on your every move

don't worry I'm sure some apologist will come along and say it's for your own good.

[indepat]

3. A fascist-like police state in which everything relevant about a citizen

is at the finger-tips of a Poindexter/Otto Reich-type brown-shirt?

[mac2]

7. He seems to be on something besides his ego to me...

[Skittles]

4. is this the same government that approves of nictotine use?

just curious

[boobooday]

5. Start with Rush Limbaugh

He can be the official Spokesmodel.

Don't get hooked like I did, Dittoheads, because you ain't got the lawyers and the money and the connections to get out of it like me.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[mac2]

6. He doesn't go to jail but other citizens will...