Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
CIA Retiree Arrested, Dragged Off Violently, Brutalized, Handcuffed, and Jailed After Standing And Turning his Back During Hillary Speech (HT to David Henderson, who has since backtracked here.)
Fake Doctors’ Notes Being Handed Out at Wisconsin Gov. Union Rally
Woman Falls Ill In Philly Airport Terminal, Dies After Waiting 40 Minutes For Help…
Heart Disease is the Number One Killer of Male Gorillas in North American Zoos. They were fed vitamin-rich, high-sugar and high-starch foods for decades.
CDC: Prescription painkiller overdose deaths exceed cocaine and heroin deaths combined.
No reason for Henderson to say “mea culpa.” Handcuffed, beaten and thrown in jail? What did the man do to justify that?
Fake doctor notes? I guess that’s the health care angle to the Wisconsin story.
Unpredictably, it took Hillary Clinton to make me long for the days of Donald Rumsfeld.
That’s really ironic: the drugs that are controlled are the ones that are killing us?
I suppose one could say that the war on drugs is working and that now we have to crack down on prescription drugs. You could also argue that people are OD’ing on drugs, no matter what (even if they are regulated).
Here is a great article about the failure of the War on Drugs. http://www.alternet.org/drugs/149895/the_disastrous_war_on_drugs_turns_40:_how_do_we_stop_the_madness?page=entire
The CDC report combines overdose deaths from legal and illegal users. It then spins the fact that there are rising deaths from “non-medical” users into a public health threat that can only be solved by more federal control of painkiller prescriptions.
In other words, because some people abuse pain relieving drugs, you should have more bureaucrats between you and your physician.
The biggest source of non-prescription use of prescription pain killers was reported to friends’ prescriptions. Right. Never mind that gray market diversion of legal drugs into illegal markets is a big problem or that thieves are lately targeting pharmaceutical manufacturers’ warehouses and have so terrorized pharmacies that some refuse to stock things like OxyContin.