Why Does Bush Have Your Private Medical Records?
Question by Marc Miami: Why does Bush have your private medical records?
Bush administration is prying into your medical records in violation of the law
We learned yesterday that the Bush administration has created a database of every single prescription drug user/patient in the country (that would pretty much be all of us). The database was created pursuant to a 2005 law that was intended to prevent the abuse of prescription drugs. Funny that this massive new database of your private medical information is now being (ab)used for a purpose that wasn’t intended in or approved by the law.
Tighter Controls Needed on Prescription Drugs
Tighter controls needed on prescription drugs
Filed under: Drug Abuse Virginia
Prescription drug abuse is the No. 1 drug problem in West Virginia, particularly in the southern counties. The US Senate this week overwhelmingly passed an amendment to an bill reauthorizing the Food and Drug Administration that would reclassify …
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Ohio man pleads guilty to selling oxycodone
Filed under: Drug Abuse Virginia
Should US Be Required to Provide Illegal Transgender Detainees With Hormone Replacement Therapy?
Question by : Should US be required to provide illegal Transgender detainees with hormone replacement therapy?
SANTA ANA In the depths of depression, battling hot flashes and desperate about her situation, Monica Freas tried to throw herself from the second floor of the Santa Ana Jail before friends restrained her.
After two decades of taking hormone replacement therapy, the 35-year-old no longer had access to the drugs that made her feel comfortable in her own skin. She begged and pleaded with jailers for months to give her the medication that made her “feel normal,” but they refused.
“I just can’t even look at myself in the mirror anymore,” Freas said in a recent interview while in detention on suspicion of being in the country illegally. She rubbed her face and pointed to the stubble on her cheeks. “For years I tried hard to get to that point and for it all to be taken away.”
She and others have shared their stories with the Heartland Alliance National Immigrant Justice Center, an advocacy group that has filed complaints with the Department of Homeland Security alleging that jailers nationwide have deprived detainees of “adequate health care” by denying them the therapy.
Immigrant-rights groups, the American Medical Association and others in the medical community say hormone replacement therapy is necessary in cases of gender identity disorder. Those with the disorder feel a strong identification with the opposite sex, which causes intense emotional pain and suffering, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Others question whether taxpayers should fund the treatment for a certain population of immigration detainees. While immigration officials say they don’t know the exact cost of providing hormone therapy to detainees, at least one physician puts the price tag at about $ 1,000 per person per year for treatment and monitoring.
It is unclear how many transgender detainees make up the estimated daily immigration detention population of more than 30,000 at nationwide facilities because Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials don’t track such figures, said ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice. The Santa Ana Jail now houses about 40 transgender detainees as part of a contract with ICE.
Over the past few months, Santa Ana Jail has become the primary host for vulnerable and special needs ICE detainees – including transgender detainees – for the Los Angeles area, ICE officials said. The transgender detainees are separated from the regular inmate population for their own safety, officials added.
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-illegal immigration think tank, said taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for the treatment.
“It’s one thing if you have a medication that is necessary for you to continue breathing,” he said. “It’s not what this is.”
http://www.ocregister.com/news/detainees-124514-ocprint-therapy-immigration.html
What Should I Do About My Drug Abuse?
Question by Abby: What should I do about my drug abuse?
Ok, so I just graduated high school at the top of my class. I made really good grades, did well in sports, won tons of awards blah blah blah. Basically, If everyone didn’t know that I abused drugs on a daily basis, no one would suspect anything because it doesn’t affect my life in a public way. Its a little strange that I abuse substances so frequently because I have absolutely no family history of substance abuse and my two older brothers were golden children who never even drank in high school and only drank in college in party situations. However, I unquestionably have a substance abuse problem. I smoke weed everyday, usually multiple times. I drink close to everyday, probably 4-5 times a week (not always with my friends). I do cocaine fairly regularly. I literally have to take Adderall if I have a lot of school work I need to do (during the school year about once a week). And I mix other drugs in with those occasionally too. While my abuse started out with partying, I now do drugs or drink all the time (before school, before work, before any time I have to spend with my family and of course at parties). My parents really don’t know that I have a problem, they know I’m a little wild but only suspect me of drinking occasionally. The problem is I would never ask my parents to send me to rehab plus I’m going to the University of Virginia in about a month. What I’m most scared about is that I will go absolutely out of control in college where substances are even more present than they are in my life now. UVA is pretty well known for alcohol, marijuana and most notably cocaine. I know I’m going to end up screwing my life up but I just can’t stop. I know I have a lot of things that could be worked out if I saw a therapist but I don’t know how I would do that either. I pretty much feel stuck and I don’t know where to turn anymore.
Oh, I also wanted to add that I’m not an addict(yet). The problem isn’t that I would suffer withdrawals because not using a particular substance doesn’t really affect me at all because I switch up the drugs that I abuse. I know if I continue on this path I’m going to have alot of problems but I don’t have any fun when I’m not high on something. Life without substances seems so much more strenuous and boring and I’ve abused drugs since I was 12 or 13. I can’t even imagine being sober at college and I honestly don’t really think that thats an option. I just want to be able to drink socially and moderately but it seems so crazy and unrealistic to me.
How Come the Government Doesn’t Do Something About the Pill Problem in West Virginia?
Question by R j: how come the government doesn’t do something about the pill problem in west virginia?
how many people have to die from prescription drug abuse before it stops how many more kids have to suffer because there parents abuse these drugs and the most of them are getting government assistance tax payers money that is supporting there habit while the kids suffer
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