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Saralyn, Thank you for your response. I'm just curious about patient advocacy though. As a Nurse, aren't you ethically and legally bound to give patients informed consent on any treatment? If you worked at a Dr. office and you saw a patient return...

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Saralyn, Im curious, does the place you work give informed consent about Rational Recovery, SMART Recovery, SOS, or WFS? Or, do you require 12-step meeting attendance? I'm certain many of your patients have been through treatment more than once a...

Hi Simon, I'm not a Nurse so I don't know if Nurses can prescribe or not. I would just like you to know that Europe is light years ahead of the U.S. in addiction treatment. Although addiction is called a disease in the US, somewhere in the neighbor...

Dorimar asks, "why would one refuse a drug test....hmmmmm" Thomas Jefferson is spinning in his grave as we speak! Here is a reason one would refuse a drug test: http://www.aclufl.org/issues/privacy/drug_testing.cfm

http://www.drugpolicy.org/law/drugtesting/pregnantwome/index.cfm

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2001/supreme-court-rules-against-2.html

Dear Medsurv, Please check out www.painreliefnetwork.org Contact them, perhaps they may be able to help you if you are willing to fight this. Also, perhaps you can sue the Dr. for violating your medical privacy rights.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/law/drugtesting/pregnantwome/index.cfm

Dutchgirl said you wouldn't have to go off of your legitimate meds in rehab. Think again. The reason being is... rehabs don't know the difference between someone who has developed a tolerance to pain medication for chronic pain and an addict. Ever...

The fact that people in pain have to resort to illegal activities to have their pain properly treated, is the real crime here. Did anyone see 60 Minutes last night? Richard Paey was on. He is in prison for 25-Life for having to obtain his own pain...

Dear lostdruid, You think it's comparing apples to oranges and a "fallacious argument" to compare health care professionals who smoke to health care workers who are obese? Why is that? You say you lose respect for those who smoke. Do you lose resp...

Dalzac, I don't believe the OP stated that she had a problem with alcohol. Quite an assumption that she would need Alcoholics Anonymous.

Sanctuary asked "does anybody think we're winning the war on drugs? www.drugpolicy.org www.druglibrary.org www.stopthedrugwar.com www.leap.cc www.norml.org www.drugwarfacts.org www.painreliefnetwork.org No, we are not winning the war on drugs just li...

rnmom3153, Please visit www.painreliefnetwork.org for information on long term chronic pain meds. Also, www.stats.org has alot of information. There is nothing wrong with using pain meds long term and I believe you may find some literature to back ...

Nursdiz, You said "lets not forget what Christmas is about. The Discovery Channel has a show called "Christmas Unwrapped". Actually, Christmas by another name was celebrated in antiquity and is actually a pagan celebration. The Church sometime in ...

Nurs.shel, You more than likely aren't an addict. Of course you will be labeled one, everyone who walks throught the doors of a treatment center is. You have to be so they can bill your insurance company. You say you have suffered from life long d...

loriAlabamaRN, Ever heard of karma?

Rob, Unfortunately, you are collateral damage from the war on drugs. The hysteria in this country over someone taking "gasp, narcotics" has gotten out of control. The Oxycontin propaganda put out by the media and the DEA has everyone thinking that ...

ILoveSnoopy, Please visit www.painreliefnetwork.org. There are millions of Americans in pain and this organization is fighting for the rights of pain patients. Help may be on the way, please see www.doctordeluca.com/Library/WOD/PRN_v_USA.pdf JB

Wendy, I am happy for you that you overcame an addiction. But with all due respect, you sound like you went to a treatment center Perhaps you should read these web sites. And it is not good advice to "report" a suspected drug user to their boards. ...

Of those "quite a few things" you've done in your life that you shouldn't have, did you ever imagine doing them? Probly not. While some nurses do withhold pain medication from patients, the majority do not. They just steal it outright from the hosp...

Blondielane7RN, You said that you work at a hospital that prohibits smoking on the premisis, even outside and in the parking garage, for the health of the newborns. While that is a tough point to aruge (protecting the health of newborns), it can be ...

Well said lady jezebel.:)