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Doctors Getting Away with Murder
FEBRUARY 18, 2012 BY CANDIDOBSERVATION LEAVE A COMMENT
There is something wrong in America

Prisons all over this country are filled, mostly with African-American
men. The dramatic increase of arrests and incarcerations of African-
American men coincided with President Ronald Reagan's "war on drugs,"
and most of us Americans have smugly assumed that the war was declared
in response to the appearance of crack cocaine in urban areas.
According to Michelle Alexander, who brilliantly discusses disparities
in incarceration between whites and blacks in her book, The New Jim
Crow, the Reagan administration declared the war before crack cocaine
began to ravage inner city neighborhoods, but used the spread of the
drug to secure funds to carry out policies which exacerbated
sentencing disparities.

The "war on drugs" led to policies that resulted an explosion in the
penal population in this country, accounting for an increase from
300,000 inmates to over 2 million in less than 30 years, Alexander
writes. The end-result is that this country incarcerates more people
than any other developed country in the world. Alexander writes that
"the United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black
population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid." (p. 6)

But even as more and more attention is paid to those who use crack
cocaine, more and more doctors are getting away with murder,
prescribing pain and other medications that are no less damaging or
dangerous than is crack. While the prison system is allowing legalized
discrimination of African-Americans, American society is allowing
legalized murder.

It has been said that Whitney Houston used crack; she herself said she
used cocaine, but what we all know by now is that she used
prescription meds, and was able to get them fairly easily. She
apparently had doctors on both the East and West coasts, and in her
room was found bottles of Xanax, lorazepam, and valium – which are
all benzodiazepines – as well as Ibuprofen, Midol and Amoxicillin.

I have heard doctors say that there is no way she should have been
taking Xanax, lorazepam and valium at the same time. And the danger of
her taking those drugs together was exacerbated by alcohol.

It is no secret that there is a double standard when it comes to crime
and criminals; street drugs are looked down upon and those who use
them are regarded as the dredge of society, while prescription drugs
are acceptable. Go into any affluent neighborhood and it's easy to
hear people talk of the anti-anxiety drugs and pain meds they take
regularly. It's almost fashionable to take such drugs, and,
contrarily, not fashionable not to take them. The people who are on
prescription drugs not as criminals, though some get them illegally
and "doctor shop" in order to satisfy their habits, and are socially
accepted.

And who is getting away with supplying the drugs? The drug sellers or
providers. On the streets, the drug pushers are labeled thugs by
society, but in the suburbs, the drug pushers are called …doctors.
If America is going to have a "thing" about drug use, oughtn't its
concern be about all drug use? I think of Michael Jackson, Amy
Winehouse, and Keith Ledger, recent stars who died not because they
used crack, but because the sophisticated drug pushers called doctors
prescribed them the drugs they were demanding.

The rampant use of drugs - on the streets and in affluent society –
makes me wonder why it is so many of us need to self-medicate.
Something, somewhere, has failed if so many people in a country where
opportunity is so much more available than in other countries are so
unable to cope with life. I have no idea about the pressures in the
music and entertainment worlds that seem to lead so many people to a
state of deep unhappiness, so deep that they cannot cope without
medical help. At least, in urban areas, where men cannot get jobs,
where poverty is rampant and there seems to be no way out, there
appears to be a justifiable reason to want to escape…but what is it
when one is "on top?"
Whatever the reason, my point is that since America is so interested
in putting "bad" people away, and since we have more money pumped into
building new prisons than we do in improving public schools, then room
in the cells ought to be made for medical doctors who are violating
the Hippocratic oath to "first, do no harm." These doctors are "doing
harm. They are getting away with murder, and they ought to be made to
pay for it.

A candid observation …
http://candidobservation.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/doctors-getting-away-with-murder/

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