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Criminal Law and Logic

By Mike

Which causes more deaths in America - the use of prescription pain medication, or deadly staph infections?  The answer, of course is the latter.  Yet the deadliest forms of staph exist because doctors over-prescribe antibiotics.  The government, however, targets doctors who prescribe "too much" pain medication. Try getting pain medication from a doctor.  It's really hard - even when you're in extreme pain.  But cough a little and they'll gladly give you a script for an antibiotic.  Even though, as we now know, the antibiotics are what's killing people. How does this make any sense? Like many things in the criminal law, it doesn't.

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 09, 2008 (boomark / email).