(05-26-2016, 11:03 PM)Shmokey Wrote: I have family members who have been prescribed hydros for many years...needless to say they are not happy with this new "push" to curb opiate addiction. I'd advise all people to avoid opiates if possible, but there are quite a few people who actually NEED it, and those are the people being hurt.
I wonder if this will backfire, and cause more people to obtain their medication in a different method other than the doc.
Agreed, and good point Shmokey. The government instituted alcohol "Prohibition" from 1920 from 1920 to 1933, and the result were social innovations that spread from the birth of stock car racing, to the rise of the "Mob". Bathtub gin, rum runners, white lightning, and "speak easies" proliferated--we being basically a "speak easy", anyway, as the name implies. The harder the clamp down, the more glue will squeeze from the edges and cracks to meet the need. I don't know if the government remembers Prohibition. They obviously don't remember Viet Nam, so I doubt it. I see the growth of clandestine efforts that will boggle the policing mind if the government doesn't rethink their direction.
Spanky