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September 19th, 2011
Medicinal Use: Heroin Part 2
Despite the fact that Heroin can be viewed as a medicinal treatment coming from the same family of opiods that Morphine does a vast majority of the medical community does not support its use for any purpose because of the reasons stated in the previous article. It was originally suggested as a medical use drug by a small group of British doctors who have since rescinded the opinion that it was at least worth exploring the option. And while there are currently a large number of problems with pain medications and pain managements (especially amongst those patients currently suffering from Cancer or other terminal diseases) that aren’t successful at the time – it is not because there are not enough pain medications available – it is more due to the fact that doctors are not prescribing the right medication at the right dosage that will be helpful to the patient than anything else.
By legalizing Heroin for medical usage the community as a whole is done a major disservice as currently there are far too many patients abusing their prescriptions by turning around and selling them on the black market, it’s already going on with so many prescription medications, are we really willing to risk the severe increase of government grade Heroin on the streets for the benefit of only a small population of patients? Beyond that – any pharmacy that regularly stocked Heroin for prescription filling would also raise the chances of burglaries occurring. Considering that 50% of the burglaries committed where a pharmacy is involved were in the intention of stealing controlled substances we only raise the chances, and percentage rate for those statistics.