Surprise-not, Same crime as LIMBOsevic nets 25 yrs

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The item I saw today was less agenda-ridden than this link. It was from Chuck SHEPARD's News of the Weird, that focused just on the disparity of the outcomes, not whether the drug laws are just. But this PAEY fellow refused rehab because he was a legitimate pain patient. & this topic is scarcely news to anybody here, but when a reminder of LIMBOsevic's Democratic lawyer's sweet deal for him is in the paper, well...here 'tis.

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Richard Paey and Rush Limbaugh 7/9/04

Common Sense for Drug Policy highlights the disparity between pain patient Richard Paey, sentenced to decades for seeking pain medication to treat severe, chronic pain, and Rush Limbaugh, whose illegal seeking and use of much larger quantities of the same types of drugs earned him only rehab.

http://www.csdp.org/ads/just4all.htm

Justice For All?

As Richard Paey sits in his cell, wheelchair bound, a subdermal pump delivers a steady flow of morphine to kill the back pain from a 1985 car crash. The 45-year-old father of three used to handle the pain with prescription narcotics, but when he moved to Florida he couldn't find a doctor willing to prescribe the appropriate amount of medication. They feared a loss of license or even prison. Like so many others, Paey was forced to use questionable prescriptions and got arrested. He refused to be forced into treatment for addiction because he's a legitimate pain patient. Now the state is providing his narcotics, along with room and board, at a cost to the taxpayers of perhaps $80,000 a year.

When Florida narcotics officers busted talk show host Rush Limbaugh for buying large quantities of OxyContin and other narcotics on the black market, he checked himself into a treatment center. After five weeks of rehab, he is back on the air. Mr. Limbaugh's illegal drug buys, over 90 pills a day at one point, make Richard Paey's pale by comparison. And while Mr. Limbaugh's use of narcotics began with severe back pain, he continued using long after the pain was gone. To catch addicts like Mr. Limbaugh, the government is targeting doctors, and the doctors are becoming so gun-shy they don't want to risk dealing with chronic pain patients at all.


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1. I'm sure Rush would be glad to use his public forum to help this man.

Now where's that sarcasm icon?

[originalpckelly]

2. I remember hearing about this guy on 60 minutes...

I thought about Rush (of drugs to the brain) when I heard it. Rush has no where near the problems of the fella in the wheelchair, yet he gets off easier. Fucker!

[DELUSIONAL]

3. Doctors are refusing to prescribe enough pain meds

and a friend of mine just died -- suicide by starvation because of this.

She couldn't live with the pain and took the only option she had to end the pain -- death.

[Greyhound]

4. What's wrong with you?!? Don't you realize that this is amerika

where you get all the justice (and health-care) you can afford? What are you some kind of PinkComSymp? :sarcasm:

[UTUSN]

5. LIMBOsevic just got through whining about the ACLU suing NSC

over the wiretapping on the grounds of "privacy". This would be the same ACLU that backed LIMBOsevic up on the grounds of "privacy". chenee-ing INGRATE!