"Hillbilly Heroin"

It's happened again and most of you probably didn't even notice. Pandering to the pathetic. It's one of the greatest achievements of liberalism. It's the mantra of Freddy Feelgood and the Funky Little Five Piece Band of Liberals. It's teachers telling kids if they can't add two plus two and make it come out to four, choose the closest number that makes them feel good.

It's strong, able-bodied men and women who have become wards of the state because it's more profitable. It's changing the rules of a game so it doesn't matter if the best player wins; it only matters that they compete. It's demanding all bigger, safer vehicles be downsized to reach the standards of small unsafe vehicles. It's dropping the standards to accommodate the lowest common denominator.

Back in the days when common sense was a common commodity, if Johnny couldn't solve fourth grade math, the teacher would either work with Johnny or he would be in the fourth grade a second time. That was yesterday. Today, liberals complain we're causing emotional distress for Johnny. So, everyone in the fourth grade is now doing third grade math. It's pandering to the pathetic and it's happening in epidemic proportions in this country.

Do you want more proof?

Last week Purdue Pharma of Norwalk, Connecticut, the makers of OxyContin said they are working on a patent application for a new formula of the opiate-based drug, hoping to make it less susceptible to abuse and addiction. OxyContin is a pain release medication you take orally. It's the longest-acting pain reliever on the market at 12 hours. You or a loved one may be taking this now, (as prescribed by your doctor). Guess what? Some low life addicts have figured out if you take the pill, chew it, crush it, inject it or snort it, you'll get a heroin high for a short time.

Several stem-cell defects in Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia have died from this so-called Hillbilly Heroin. Some lawyers are now suing the manufacturers for costs related to the addicts. All this means is the company is going back to the drawing board to include some chemical in the new re-formulated OxyContin that would render its hillbilly high properties useless.

Here's my problem with that. Why do people who are taking the drug as prescribed have to suffer because of these people hanging on the bottom rung of the human food chain ladder? We've already got a long, horrific list of Food and Drug approved medication that's making people sick and lawyers rich. Now they want you to ingest a pill with some additional magic chemical that you don't need...unless you're planning on chewing, snorting or injecting.

Which brings me to this conclusion--why change it? If the objective is to relieve pain, so be it. Why risk the health of so many to protect a few maniacs. Listen, if midgets abused aspirin, would the government demand all new pills be the size of a tennis balls? Oh, by the way, the answer to that question is an unconditional YES!

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