Read op-ed columnist, John Tierney's, comments on physician arrests. NY
Times: July 23, 2005.
"If enough doctors are jailed or scared into not writing prescriptions, it's
conceivable that this drug war could have more impact than the ones against
heroin and cocaine - doctors, after all, are harder to replace than crack
dealers. But even if there's less OxyContin on the street, is that worth the
suffering of patients who can't get the painkillers they need?..."
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