The misgivings of the FDA, the government agency whose task is to protect the American people, continues to build as the opioid (aka pain pills) fiasco continues to grow in this country.  The big splash of a pain clinic raid in Florida will not stop the growing dependency too many people are developing from the "pain pills" until the FDA stops facilitating the distribution of narcotics onto the streets in our country. 

The fundamental question of why people become dependent on the legal narcotics is continually evaded.  The fact is that if an individual takes the narcotic opioids for a period of time they will have withdrawal when getting off of the drugs.  The FDA is complicit in holding back that information from the American public.  For a few, the withdrawal is minor, for some major and for too many people they never want to face the consequences of throwing the narcotics away.  As long as the FDA does not reveal and attempt to stop the distribution of the legal narcotics dependence, addiction, crime related drug stories and death will be the mainstay in every morning newspaper. 

The report that Dr. Bob Rappaport, Deputy Division Director - Division of Anesthetic Critical Care and Addiction Drug Products from the FDA appeared on the podium with David Haddox from Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin, on May 8th in Baltimore at the American Pain Society's Meeting is a travesty for this country.  The bigger travesty is the meeting was billed as "a scientific meeting"   http://www.ampainsoc.org/meeting/annual_10/downloads/APS_LngBro-Final.pdf  The distribution of narcotics by the charlatans of the pain management industry is not a scientific endeavor.  Selling legal narcotics is an endeavor on how does one learn to compete with the street corner heroin and cocaine dealers?  The drugs all are selling offer the same results!

Obama was to usher in a new openness and change of our government agencies.  The appointment of Margaret Hamburg to head the FDA has been a disaster.  Like Obama, Hamburg can no longer blame the previous administration for the past blunders.  Each passing day that brings more addiction, destruction and death from the legal narcotics rests in Hamburg's hands and the present FDA.  Allowing Rappaport to be standing next to Haddox is a telling tale as the disregard the FDA has for the American people.