For Equal
Rights For Physical And Mental Pain
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RUN KIDS RUN DEA IS COMING
Alen J Salerian MD
January 24, 2015
We all wish to live
in a crime free society. We all wish to reduce crime. We also appreciate that
every action may trigger an action and this is also true for fighting
drug trafficking in America.
For some time our culture made us
believe the illegal use of drugs is our number national priority. From
elementary school to high school to college we teach the dangers of drugs . And
understandably healthcare providers have become very sensitized to the adverse
influences of illegal use of drugs.
Is it possible that
our national obsession with prevention of substance abuse has harmed people
with mental and physical pain? And who defends the rights of millions of
Americans with chronic pain?
Institute of Medicine
says over hundred million people are victimized by chronic pain in America. CDC
tells us some 40,000 people commit suicide annually.
Who is defending the people with imperfect
brains?
And who suffers when the Department of Justice
puts undercover agents in doctors offices?
And who is victimized
when a loving parent is imprisoned for smoking pot?
Or when a young male is incarcerated for years for selling
Ritalin?
Who suffers when we lock up thousands of pain
doctors by flooding them with DEA
trained fake patients.
We have reached a
low point , where regardless of why or what reason, for every problem we face,”
drugs” is the first blame . Doesn't matter what challenge. Whether it's death ,murder,
suicide, homicide or insanity. Any abnormal act must first prove that it's not
because of drugs. Our blind obsession to
blame every societal problem on drugs has decreased our intelligence to find rational solutions
for many societal menaces including the ravages of
mental illness ,poverty or economic ills.
The good news is
our man-made problem is fixable.Let us trust
science and medicine. Keep policemen out of doctors offices. And never forget
Hippocrates.
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