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OverPrescriptionAsNormalcy 11 - 05 Apr 2012 - Main.HarryKhanna
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< | The Attorney General’s I-STOP bill, proposing the institution of a computer system that would track the medical history of patients to prevent against drug abuse, is facing backlash from some members of the medical community. As the article notes, New York “ranks 11th in the nation for admissions to chemical dependence programs for abuse of opioids other than heroin.” | >
> | The Attorney General’s I-STOP bill, proposing the institution of a computer system that would track the medical history of patients to prevent against drug abuse, is facing backlash from some members of the medical community. As this Forbes article notes, New York “ranks 11th in the nation for admissions to chemical dependence programs for abuse of opioids other than heroin.” | | | The article’s discussion of the dangers inherent in over-prescription retains a focus on “crooked doctors, street-level drug dealers, and doctor-shopping addicts”. Little attention is paid to the addiction that rages within the employed upper-middle class. This focus perpetuates the stereotype that drug problems are confined to a particular subset of society that doesn’t include. ‘us’ | | | What most interests me about this problem is why exactly it happens and who it happens to. I completely agree that the problem is rampant among the upper echelons, a reality often ignored in our society. In Black's "Behavior of the Law" article, he stresses how poor and disenfranchised people have less law, and that the law disfavors. It is undeniably true that wealthier people, and those with close family and friends, tend to receive more sympathy when facing legal troubles. Maybe, for this reason, wealthy, privileged people believe they have immunity from the law, making it an even weaker form of social control than it already is. Thus, they use drugs, thinking the law won't, in fact can't, touch them. Additionally, though some people seem well-integrated on the surface, their psychological make-up puts them at the fringes, mentally apart from society, disenfranchised. A person less integrated in society is more likely to lose protection under the law. Ultimately, people will ignore the law as opposed to social, mental, and biological forces. For this reason, I regrettably doubt the I-STOP Bill could have any drastic impact (besides pissing off hard-working doctors).
That being said....can you put the link to the article you refer to on the Wiki? | |
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> | -- AbbyCoster 4 Apr 2012 |
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