Jesus Implicated in ‘Prescription Drug Addiction’
Jesus Implicated in ‘Prescription Drug-Addiction’; Alexander DeLuca; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis; 2007-05-22.
Jesus died for somebody’s sins; but not mine - Patti Smith
From: “Ascension Demonstrates the Possibility Now“; ReformedCatholic; 2007-05-21.
- Jesus… stands in solidarity with our humaity (sic)… waits in breadlines… is spat upon… sinks into the darkness of mental illness. [Jesus] was gassed in Auschwitz, slaughtered in Armenia, raped in Rwanda… Jesus is present within the prescription drug-addiction of middle-class suburban banality.
Gee, I’m sorry to interrupt, but what in gods name (whoops, sorry again) is “the prescription drug-addiction of middle-class suburban banality”?
Wow. “Drug addiction” must be as bad as being “gassed at Aushwitz (sic), slaughtered in Armenia, raped in Rwanda.” Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But. It. Isn’t.
Oh how we love to dramatize “addiction.” Everybody is an expert - and exactly to that extent the word and concept have become meaningless. (Which doesn’t stop drug war prosecutors putting juries with no medical training in the position of deciding life and death, literally, on the basis of a distinction no one, not even medical experts, can make with assurance: the difference between a ‘drug seeker’ and a ‘pain patient.’) [See every last damn case in: War on Pain Sufferers]
Truth is, “addiction” is not as bad as being gassed at Auschwitz, or slaughtered in Armenia, or raped in Rwanda. Most people that at sometime in their life meet criteria for “substance abuse” or “addiction” grow to become either non-problematic users or abstinent - without medical or even self-help support. And most people in ‘the throes of addiction’ are working, and have families.
“Prescription Drug Abuse” (ohh, ahh, gasp) is simply this years ‘Moral Panic.’ It’s only purpose is to get you to cough up the 15 odd BILLION dollars a year for the drug war (ONDCP’s annual budget for a decade).
As the old priest said to the young priest in the movie, The Exorcist: “Don’t listen to them; They lie.”
See also:
Flash Trash: The Arrest of Dr. William Stack; Alex DeLuca; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis; 2007.
The Challenge of Prescription Drug Misuse; William Hurwitz; 2005
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Tags: author=deluca, opiophobia, prescription drug abuse, public health, statistics, substance abuse, trash journalism
Comment by That_SOB
Just so my position is up front and in plain site, I feel the war on drugs and the people who take them is total B.S. If you wonder why, ask Michael Moore at least there are some sane people left in this country. I don’t wish to start a war on semantics but, the use of the words addict and dependant to describe the same thing causes nothing but grief in this society and to justifiable pain patients. I pass no judgment here but an addict takes drugs that can cause a dependency for recreation, for purposes other then they were made, or distributed. The continued use of these drugs for recreation causes a dependence that arises from the continued self-medication and abuse of drugs that have the potential for habituation . Dependence arises when a person takes drugs which can create a dependence for the reasons they are manufactured. A dependence arises from the need to abate pain and the continued use of a drug that can create a habituation. In both cases these people need help, but to often the legal system mixes the two people up under one definition and the pain patient suffers for the behavior of the recreational user. 90% of the people who go to see a MD go for the treatment of pain*, yet not 5% of US Med schools teach a class in Pain Management– ah yes students do take extensive chemistry classes –so what ? — Today MD’s are sorrowfully lacking in pain management knowledge and skills learned from Med school. *(Time: June 2006) That_SOB
GET THE DEA OUT OF MEDICINE !!