{"id":17116,"date":"2013-01-11T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17116"},"modified":"2013-01-11T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:15:08","slug":"there-are-more-than-two-sides-to-this-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17116","title":{"rendered":"There Are More Than Two Sides To This Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A website called <a href=\"http:\/\/politicker.com\/2013\/01\/bloomberg-slaps-down-criticism-of-painkiller-restriction-plan\/\">Politicker.com<\/a> posted a story about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mayor of New York City\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mayor_of_New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">New York Mayor<\/a> Bloomberg&#8217;s new initiative to limit supplies of prescription painkillers in the city\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Emergency department\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emergency_department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">emergency rooms<\/a>. The idea of the initiative is to fight what the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mayor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Mayor<\/a> calls &#8216;a growing addiction problem in the region.&#8217; On one level this makes sense&#8211;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Substance dependence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Substance_dependence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">drug addiction<\/a> is a growing problem, but beyond that, why are the Mayor and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"City council\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/City_council\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">City Council<\/a> practicing medicine?<\/p>\n<p>Having recently undergone some minor surgery, I understand that doctors and hospitals like to &#8216;manage&#8217; the pain of their patients. That is very nice, but I really think we have become a nation of wimps. The day or two after surgery is generally tough, but to give a patient a two week supply of pain killers is questionable at best.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Mr. Bloomberg also argued the number of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Analgesic\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Analgesic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">pain pills<\/a> currently being prescribed had even contributed to an uptick in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Violent crime\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Violent_crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">violent crimes<\/a> outside of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Pharmacy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pharmacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">pharmacies<\/a> from robbers looking to steal the drugs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cYou see there\u2019s a lot more hold-ups of pharmacies, people getting held up as they walk out of pharmacies,\u201d he explained. \u201cWhat are they all about? They\u2019re not trying to steal your <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Shaving cream\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shaving_cream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">shaving cream<\/a> or toothpaste at the point of a gun.\u00a0They want these drugs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of the gun control argument&#8211;a government official is going to control the behavior of law-abiding citizens in order to change the behavior of those who choose not to follow the law. Makes a lot of sense, doesn&#8217;t it?<a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=02544c9c-6cce-4350-9023-358fbe0bd381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A website called Politicker.com posted a story about New York Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s new initiative to limit supplies of prescription painkillers in the city\u2019s emergency rooms. The idea of the initiative is to fight what the Mayor calls &#8216;a growing addiction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17116\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4762,4764,4763,2465,126,125,4765,2034],"class_list":["post-17116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-analgesic","tag-city-council","tag-emergency-department","tag-mayor","tag-michael-bloomberg","tag-new-york-city","tag-oxycodone","tag-pharmacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17121,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions\/17121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}