Reason Magazine reminds us that nonviolent users of illegal drugs aren’t the only victims of America’s War on (some) Drugs. A number of physicians and patients suffering from incurable neurogenic diseases have been sent to prison all because your congressmen and congresswoman insist that they (and not physicians) should be making decisions about prescribing pain medications.
Thanks to Radley Balko over at The Agitator for the link. For more information on this issue, please visit Radley’s Pain Treatment archives as well as the Cato Institute’s report on the subject.
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