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On 8/29/13 5:55 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:42:08 -0400, John H
wrote:

Substance abuse is a medical condition; being conservatrash Is a choice!
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The effects of substance abuse may be a medical condition. The actual abuse is a choice

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Thank you, I was going to say that but you beat me to it.

I'm sure Harry has no problem with substance abuse since it provides
rationale for big government spending and helps to keep his wife in
business.

That's really stupid and ignorant.

Here's just *one* example of why:

Many Americans who are injured on the job or, say, injured in car
accidents, are prescribed addicting, narcotic painkillers by physicians
who are not monitoring their patients closely enough. As a result, a
number of these folks become addicted to the pain pills and can't get
themselves weaned from them. Some end up shopping for prescriptions or
moving on to heroin. It's hardly a choice when you don't have access to
a pain management doctor and you have to keep popping pills so you can
try to work for a living.

I had a back problem for 24 years before it progressed to an emergency situation. Sure my
back hurt just about every day of my adult life but, I dealt with the pain and didn't turn
into a pain pill begging addict. When it got bad were I couldn't walk upright I got pain
pills to get me through but, then I returned to normal back pain and dealt with it. Many
don't get addicted to the pain medication, they use it when needed and when the medicine runs
out it is gone.

Herring comes down pretty hard on those who he thinks are not meeting
his standard of being an alcoholic whose substance abuse is temporarily
under control.

I would venture to say the John has more real world experience with subatance abuse than you
or your wife do, that is unless both you and your wife are addicts of some kind.

I wonder if Wayne thinks that if government spending for sick people was
cut back, there would be more money to waste on his former bankster
employer when it finds itself on the ropes again.

Government does not spend money well, they throw it around and even if there is the slight
possibility that there may be someone who has a smidgen of a chance will benefit we keep the
multi hundreds of million dollar program continued. When something is not effective and
achieving its stated goals it should be shutdown and the money spent on something different.