The War Against Pain Medicine
by TChris
TalkLeft reported (here and here) the ordeal of Richard Paey, who, although wheelchair-bound, is serving a 25 year sentence for possessing Percocet and other medication that he used to control his relentless pain. His tragic story ends with an ironic note, reported by John Tierney:
The odd thing, [Paey] said, is that he's actually getting better medication [in prison] than he did at the time of his arrest because the State of Florida is now supplying him with a morphine pump, which gives him more pain relief than the pills that triggered so much suspicion. The illogic struck him as utterly normal.
"We've become mad in our pursuit of drug-law violations," he said. "Generations to come will look back and scarcely believe what we've done to sick people."
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