Lost amongst all the Alito stuff man serving 25 years for pain management

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This case is out of Florida (yes the same Florida where Limbaugh is still running around free)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/25/60minutes/main1238202.shtml

When the Paeys moved to Florida, getting the drugs was the problem. Paey says doctors were fearful of attracting police attention because of his high doses.

"One was quite frank and said that I was, in a word, he said, 'screwed,' " says Paey. "And I was in that medical nightmare zone where you've gone through all the treatments, and nothing works. And what does work, what does help, no one wants to prescribe because it attracts attention, and no one wants that attention."

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My doctor in New Jersey, who had been with me for almost seven years, agreed to continue the care," says Paey.
Paey’s doctor in New Jersey, Stephen Nurkiewicz, agreed to mail and fax prescriptions to him in Florida. To ensure that Richard would never run out of pills — his worst nightmare — Nurkiewicz left some of the prescriptions undated.

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In interviews with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Nurkiewicz at first supported Paey and admitted mailing him undated prescriptions and, when pharmacists called, he verified the prescriptions.

But when he was later shown evidence that Paey had filled 200 prescriptions over a two year period for 18,000 pills, he then stated that all of the prescriptions were forgeries, including some he had originally verified to pharmacists. He was no longer a suspect, instead becoming a witness for the prosecution.


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I can't quote everything it just keeps getting worse. The irony is that he is now getting his pain meds in that he has a morphine pump. So he had to be sentenced as a drug dealer (despite not one iota of evidence that he dealt one pill) inorder to actually get effective medical care. People like Limbaugh who abused these drugs are a huge part of why this man is in prison. Shame on them all.

[sweetheart]

1. I bet he'd love to have the rights of a UK dog

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x14725#14735

The medical establishment has lost all credibility and should lose its monopoly in the
perscription of treatment. The Drugs medical fascists are right in line behind the military
ones, and both of them strip civil rights and natural freedoms from the sovereign citizen.

How tragic this man's story indeed. Our drugs criminalization culture makes doctors not
perscribe appropriate pain killers and millions are treated poorly because some puritain
assholes are in the drugs war prison establishment empire bulding.

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2. I remember reading Limbaugh had gotten over forty thousand pills

To bad there is no real justice in this world..:shrug:

[Pavulon]

3. Sounds like the

doctor and this guy were both gaming the system.

The doses listed were well beyond what a person would take.

If you are taking that quantity you are misperscribed. Your liver will fall out. Altering prescriptions will put you in jail.


Fentanyl analogues work on people who are in real need, sufferers of breakthrough pain have this as an option.

[Straight Shooter]

4. Chronic pain is hell on earth.

There are many severe consequences to taking pain medication, especially large amounts, over an extended period of time. It wreaks havoc on the body. But, OTOH, living in agony is no life at all.

Give the people their meds until science develops a way to block those signals in a way which does the least harm to the body. I cannot believe in this day and age that drugs for chronic pain are politicized and criminalized. It's a disgusting reflection of how little power we have to make decisions concerning our bodies.