ToDaZeD Creeping Incrementalism
Give that to Nanny!
Coordinated by the Drug Enforcement Administration ... the first such effort with national scope… calling on citizens to surrender old bottles of potent pills like Vicodin, Percocet and Xanax.
...drop-off stations at a Wal-Mart in Pearland, Tex., a zoo in Wichita, Kan., a sports complex ...
The take-back day is being held as waves of data suggest the country’s prescription drug problem is vast and growing...
Granted, there may be an opiate addiction problem. Here’s your anecdotal “proof:”
In Harpswell, Me., a masked man broke into the home of a 77-year-old woman in June, knocked her to the ground and snatched her Oxycontin pills at knifepoint.
Does it require this response? What about a PR campaign on how to get rid of your unused ‘scripts safely? [as sewage systems are inadequate to the task of removing pharmaceuticals from waste water—much less DNA fragments, but that’s not important, now—flushing drugs just makes more problems.]
Nor will it address root causes of addiction, like the overprescribing of powerful drugs.
Overprescribing is not the “root cause” of addiction: the cultural idea that taking a pill “fixes” things is. [as opposed to, say, the hard work of addressing the actual problem at hand]
The Nanny-ness hits overdrive here:
In lobbying the public to participate, law enforcement officials and others who battle prescription drug abuse try to educate people on just how lethal keeping pills around can be.
“It’s really no different than having a loaded gun just lying around the house,”
Another thing adults seem to manage without harming themselves. Or others.
Incineration is the best way to dispose of controlled prescription drugs.
Ok. Or give them to your pharmacist—she has ways of disposing of them.
Gary Boggs, executive assistant in the office of diversion control at D.E.A. headquarters in Washington, said the agency hoped to coordinate national drug take-back days twice a year until federal law allows other options for safe prescription drug disposal. Several bills before Congress would loosen regulations on who can collect used drugs.
*bingo* Follow the $$$$.
Now I’m confused. Am I supposed to turn in my AK-47 (the nice pink “Hello Kitty” one), or my Xanax (which helps keep me from culling the population of simpletons)?
Posted by ZZMike on 09/28/10 at 06:31 PM
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