Treating Chronic Pain - How to Find the Right One

kratom extract - Before the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act became law in 1914, the federal government basically left Americans alone to medicate with alcohol, opiates, and cocaine as they saw fit. Many years ago when Peace Corps Volunteers served in South Korea (me among them), you could buy any legal drug without a prescription. Had a cough you could not get rid of? Codeine was obtainable at the corner pharmacy for under a dollar. Amphetamines were obtainable from roughly 6 cents a hit. I never bought them, although they were available if I wanted them. Members of the U.S. Army stationed in Korea were prohibited from going inside a Korean drugstore. Strictly off-limits. (As if that ever prevented even one soldier from getting any drug they needed - legal or banned.) Politicians have long sense given up on following the Constitution. At least they knew before 1914 that the Constitution did not permit the federal government to ban plants and natural pharmaceuticals. The first big law - the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act - is a TAX statute. The Act provides: "Chap 1. - An Act To provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax on all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes." Even though technically permissible for personal use at that point in time, some doctors who prescribed opiates to addicts were arrested and imprisoned since addiction was not legally a "disease" a doctor could treat in "the course of his professional practice." For fear of losing their licenses to prescribe drugs - the foundation of most modern medical practices - many doctors will not prescribe the best pain killers, even when they know it's the best choice for the patient.