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Parkinson's Medicinal Treatment Turns Men Gay?

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:27:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I really have no particular opinion on this story as my knowledge of these matters is rather limited. But frankly, this is the first I ever heard of such a reaction from this kind of medication. Does anyone have any further information of a personal or clinical nature?

Clip Source: www.pinknews.co.uk

Parkinson's drugs led to gay sex addiction claims father

A father-of-two with Parkinson's disease may be awarded damages in France after he turned into a gambler and a thief with uncontrollable homosexual urges because of drugs prescribed for his treatment.

Didier Jambart, 47, is suing for €400,000 (£287,000) after being prescribed with dopamine agonist drugs, which he claims led to severe mood swings.

During his highs he turned to gambling and accumulated debts of €130,000

He began to steal from his family, friends and neighbours to support his addiction and even sold his young son's toys.

Mr Jambart also began looking for partners on gay internet sites to invite back to his home.

According to Phillippe Damier, head of the neurology department at the Nantes CHU hospital, it was evident that Mr Jambart was suffering from a dopamine agonist disorder.

Mr Jambart was immediately put on different medication and the side effects disappeared.

Tags: gay, medicine, parkinson's, dopamine

War On Drugs Gets Crazier and Crazier

Sat, 26 May 2007 07:27:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It is remarkable that there are states who still look to prosecute pregnant women who happen to be drug addicts. Addiction is an illness; a treatable illness. I have never met a drug addict who is happy to be such. Instead of financing the phony war on drugs by locking up and prosecuting addicts, why not use some of that enormous amount of money on building more treatment centres and financing research into additional treatment measures for this illness? It's the perfect blame the victim mentality that some members of our society seems to thrive on.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Prosecuting pregnant drug-addicted mothers

Pregnancy, like drug addiction, is a status. It is not a crime. And yet prosecutors are arguing that it’s a crime for the two statuses to occur simultaneously.

On May 11, the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico turned back the state's attempt to expand the criminal child abuse laws to apply to pregnant women and fetuses. In 2003, Ms. Cynthia Martinez was charged with felony child abuse "for permitting a child under 18 years of age to be placed in a situation that may endanger the child's life or health. . ." In bringing this prosecution, the state argued that a pregnant woman who cannot overcome a drug addiction before she gives birth should be sent to jail as a felony child abuser.

Regina McKnight, a South Carolina woman, was recently convicted of homicide by child abuse after giving birth to a stillborn baby. Her conviction was upheld by the South Carolina State Supreme Court.

Tags: drugs, law, pregnancy, politics

White Collar Drug Pushers vs Street Corner Pushers.

Wed, 16 May 2007 07:48:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The U.S. government has a very skewed take on the drug problem in its midst. The prisons are filled with small time corner drug dealers, or people who were caught with a couple of joints in the pockets etc. But when a big pharmaceutical company is found guilty of illegally marketing and selling a dangerous drug via deliberate misrepresentation, there are all kinds of legal loop holes that will keep the perpetrators well away from prison bars, while permitting them to continue selling their wares after paying a relatively small fine. Is this justice? If the government is on such a war against drugs, they should really be throwing the book at this criminals in white colours and thousand dollar suits.

This article in well worth reading in its entirety because it gives far more information about this outrage than I could fit in the limited clip. But once again, we are facing huge hypocrisy.

Clip Source: www.corporatecrimereporter.com

Big Pharma Commits the Crime, Doesn’t Do the Time

21 Corporate Crime Reporter 21, May 15, 2007

How does street crime work?

You commit the crime, you do the time.

How does corporate crime work?

Big pharma corporation commits a crime and hires a highly paid white collar crime defense lawyer.

Defense lawyer approaches prosecutor and says – let’s make a deal.

You agree not to prosecute the company.

OxyContin is a Godsend for cancer patients and others in chronic pain.

But it’s also an easy high for thousands of down and out Americans.

Crush the pill and snort it.

Last week John Brownlee, the U.S. Attorney in Roanoke, Virginia tried to pin the blame where it rightly belongs – on the company and executives who pushed the drug on an unsuspecting public with claims that it was less addictive than other painkillers.

Emphasis on the word “tried.”

“Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to one felony count of fraudulently misbranding a drug.”

One problem.

Purdue Pharma did not plead guilty to this crime.

Tags: drugs, narcotics, medical, legal

An Important Article About Overzealous Drug Enforcement

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:16:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is a very serious issue. As a chronic pain patient, I have all too often been treated like a street addict due to my requirement of narcotic analgesic treatment for my pain. For the past several years I have been enrolled at a pain management clinic in their methadone program which affords me excellent pain relief on a reliable and constant basis. But there are many people who are not as fortunate as I am, and have to suffer needlessly with their pain because doctor's who want to help them cannot due to the overzealous DEA agents the Bush administration has instructed to crack down on physicians prescribing narcotic analgesics.

This is not to say that there are no unscrupulous doctor's out there, who make money illegally selling prescriptions. But they are in vast minority of the millions of honest doctors whose only concerns are their patients well being. Patients should never be made to feel as if being sick is a crime and their docs should be able to help them.

Clip Source: www.onepaper.com

Dr. Maynard or Mr. Pusher? Supporters Extol Virtues of Convicted Physician
by Christopher Stowens

March 18, 2007 -- A doctor sits in a federal jail in Puerto Rico. Hundreds of his patients and their families on St. Thomas suddenly find themselves without medical care.

In a well-publicized trial, a jury convicted Dr. Paul Maynard on four counts -- out of a possible 170 -- of prescribing pain medication to patients without "a legitimate medical purpose."

According to Siobhan Reynolds of the advocacy organization Pain Relief Network (PRN), Maynard is just one of thousands of doctors who have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted and sent to prison. Hundreds of them have been pain-management specialists like Maynard, she says, arrested by federal and state authorities for violating the Controlled Substances Act. Reynolds maintains that this is a concerted effort by the government designed to limit the dispensing of illegal prescription drugs by doctors and their use by patients.

Tags: medical, medicine, narcotics, pain, dea

A Hope For Clemency

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:06:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This story hits me especially hard. I am a chronic pain patient who went through years of surgery, rehab and tortuous treatments before I was finally able to hook-up with a pain clinic who is able to dispense the medication I require in what for a "normal" person would be an excessive dose. I admit that I live in Canada where the "war on drugs" has not become a totally out of control and paranoid crusade by the government.

In the U.S. however, many doctors are fearful or writing prescriptions for narcotic medication because of government interference. There are any number of cases of doctors treating chronic pain patients with the medicine they need, only to lose their licenses due to overzealous federal drug agents.

The real crime is when legitimate chronic pain patients, whose lives are miserable enough to begin with, are treated like junkies trying to hustle drugs in order to get their medical needs met. And that the doctors who try to treat them are so often harassed.

Clip Source: www.myfoxtampabay.com

Richard Paey is serving a 25-year sentence.

TAMPA - Richard Paey's story has gone worldwide. In a 60 Minutes interview, he described his endless pain after a back crushing car accident.

"I felt like my legs were being dipped into a furnace," he explained.

Paey says that living hell forced him to use many more pain pills than the law allows. He was arrested, and after refusing a plea deal, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

As the holidays neared, Paey's family had hopes of a successful appeal. Defense lawyers tried to convince a Tampa appeals court that Paey was no drug dealer or addict, but the effort failed.

The judges said the law tied their hands, and urged Paey to appeal to the governor for clemency.

"It is cruel for a man with an undisputed medical need for daily medication to go to prison for 25 years," wrote Judge James Seals.

But Governor Jeb Bush, perhaps hardened by his own daughter Noel's prescription drug troubles, refused.

"I'm not sure I'm going to buy into the argument that people don't have enough access to pharmaceutical drugs," said Bush.

Now the Paey family is turning to newly elected Governor Charlie Crist, hoping he has different opinion.

Defense lawyer John Fitzgibbons has no ties to the Paey case.

"It's a very compelling case for clemency. I can't think of a case that would be much more compelling - where the appeals court even expressed sympathy but frustration they could do nothing," he said.

Meanwhile, all Richard Paey and his family can do is wait.

"We can't help but hope and pray that he comes home any day," said wife Linda.

Tags: health, legal, political, medical, drugs, pain

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Parkinson's Medicinal Treatment Turns Men Gay?

War On Drugs Gets Crazier and Crazier

White Collar Drug Pushers vs Street Corner Pushers.

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