Mr. and Mrs. Bureaucrats, Show Us Some Mercy
My goddess, my dream girl since I saw her gliding towards me in a light blue satin dress at a July 4, 1966, black tie dinner dance at the State Department Ballroom, loves to watch documentaries on TV with me. It does us both a world of good. Since my goddess got out of a hellish six-day stay at the famous Cedars-Sinai Hospital, she has become fixated on the Ken Burns product. They are super ultra-politically biased but brilliantly shot.
The one we watched late last night, about “Prohibition,” was in black and white, and the most politically biased yet. But it got at a subject that is important to me: politically motivated health commands from Washington, D.C.
This is to say, “The War on Drugs.” I know I have mentioned it before. And I’ll probably mention it again. But what I see in real life is that the feds have banished medications that are simple and inexpensive against colitis and replaced them with complex meds that do not work anywhere near as well and are expensive and have dangerous side effects.
This is tormenting me and almost everyone else I know. It did not have to happen. I would respectfully suggest that if the government took away the sanctions against Paregoric, many Americans, especially we poor old Americans, would be happier, healthier old folks. I know that Paregoric has an infinitesimal quantum of a highly diluted form of opium. But I have yet to see any evidence that — taken as directed — it has a meaningful public health harm. Please, Mr. and Mrs. Bureaucrats, show us some mercy.
Maybe Big Pharma will suffer because we will be able to buy inexpensive meds and not costly ones. But please give us ordinary citizens a break.
And let us have some peace of mind.
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