Arizona health official: Doctors skirting medical marijuana standards

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• wdgnas posted at 6:07 am on Sat, Aug 20, 2011.

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  are doctors that prescribe oxycontin being treated the same way?

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• PeacefulCat posted at 8:43 am on Sat, Aug 20, 2011.

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  wdgnas Exactly they are not-we we would not have so many pill mills!! On top of the AZ Health department being accused of pushing pharmaceuticals.

  What is this their third try at trying to circumvent the law....afraid they will have to function without the the drug was money???

  Do they not have better things to do with their time and money? Look at where we stand at nationally on health, education, etc.

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• AZIraqVeteran posted at 10:51 pm on Sat, Aug 20, 2011.

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  To the 2 above posters @wdnas and @PeacefulCat : Do you have first hand knowledge of a person getting an OxyContin prescription who doesn't need it. If so why haven't you reported the physician to the AZ Board of Medical Examiners? No? Hearsay you say. Could it be the heavily regulated Schedule of narcotics requiring doctors to use special triplicate pads to write the prescriptions for Schedule II and III narcotics. These pads are submitted to the DEA by the doctors. Hmm.... OxyContin just gets your tongues wagging. Morphine, Fentynl, Hydrocodone, Vicodin, Duiladid, hydromorphone, Methadone, are just the same and for some reason it is all about OxyContin.

  I pray that you are left in extreme chronic pain from a horrible tragic injury and the only treatment that is effective is OxyContin and the doctors you get are so scared to write a prescription to relive your pain so you can suffer like so many hundreds of thousands suffer in the USA because so many doctors are being terrorized by the DEA because of idiots like you two. I can only hope as a Veteran from OIF who suffered a through an IED attack of his HMMWV resulting in a broken back and crushed ankle and hope that a-holes like you lose your fight to terrorize Veterans who can not get proper treatment because of your ignorance. Enjoy Freedom? Thank a Vet

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• wdgnas posted at 6:15 am on Sun, Aug 21, 2011.

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  aziraqvet: first and foremost, thank you for your service. i know plenty of people that doctor shop for prescription drugs. they somehow think they are above the law. that the law should pertain to others, not them. by the way, using oxycontin as an example, got your attention. i have no intention of terrorizing veterans or anyone that needs medication. i am only asking if those doctors that prescribe the drugs you named are treated the same way. you believe they are. i do not. given they choice of all the drugs you name or marijuana, i would choose marijuana any day of the week. and to quote slabside: it is the law. get used to it.

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• PeacefulCat posted at 5:04 pm on Sun, Aug 21, 2011.

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  AZiraqveteren..check your stats about prescription drugs before attacking someone's position on what drug there would prefer to you. Many doctors in our area have been turned in.they have to have another physician with them when seeing other patients due to the amount of complaints. complaining is like asking the fox into the hen house.

  May you find a way to rid yourself of your pain; which has nothing to do with us nor your problem getting drugs. May your hate and vicious be eased as well. I hope you get what you need to help you. I wish you no ill will; just some pain relief and some education.

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