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From: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.med
Subject: Re: Where are drugs (opiates) legal?
Message-ID: <1506@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 16:16:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 16:16:11 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Mar-86 07:26:18 EST
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Reply-To: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
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Keywords: drugs, opiates, heroin, morphine, penicillin
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In article <915@felix.UUCP> daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards) writes:
>This is getting off the track of the original posting, but one of my pet
>peeves is the fact that penicillin is not available over the counter (or
>any effective antibiotic, that I know of).  Is this due to pressure from
>the A.M.A., to force people to see their doctors, or what?  It seems rid-
>iculous to have to go to the doctor and pay a small fortune, when you
>already know what's wrong with you and what you need to fix it.

   Seems to me that the last time I saw people dosing themselves with
penicillin without a doctor's orders was a while back, about the time
that Vietnam Rose came out.  During the war, many soldiers doctored
themselves up with (mostly black market) enormous amounts of penicillin
to prevent VD.  Organisms adapt, as organisms do, and penicillin resistant
bacteria were selected for.  The disease was brought back to the states
(it was actually a gonorrhea varient, to be specific), and has been everyone's
headache since.  Too much of a good thing isn't good, and someone out there
wants to protect us from ourselves.  That's what laws are for.

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