The Intrusive
Liberal mayor of new York finds something else he knows more what’s best for
others!
Let the
stupid masses suffer with pain!
Some of the
most common and most powerful prescription painkillers on the market will be
restricted sharply in the emergency rooms at New York City’s 11 public
hospitals, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said
Thursday in an effort to crack down on what he called a citywide and national
epidemic of prescription drug abuse.
Under the
new city policy, most public hospital patients will no longer be able to get
more than three days’ worth of narcotic painkillers like Vicodin and Percocet.
Long-acting painkillers, including OxyContin, a familiar remedy for chronic
backache and arthritis, as well as Fentanyl patches and methadone, will not be
dispensed at all. And lost, stolen or destroyed prescriptions will not be
refilled.
City
officials said the policy was aimed at reducing the growing dependency on
painkillers and preventing excess amounts of drugs from being taken out of
medicine chests and sold on the street or abused by teenagers and others who
want to get high.
“Abuse of
prescription painkillers in our city has increased alarmingly,” Mr. Bloomberg
said in announcing the new policy at Elmhurst Hospital Center, a public
hospital in Queens. Over 250,000 New Yorkers over age 12 are abusing
prescription painkillers, he said, leading to rising hospital admissions for
overdoses and deaths, Medicare fraud by doctors who write false prescriptions
and violent crime like “holdups at neighborhood pharmacies.”
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