Honorable Nevadans ought to be ashamed of the disgraceful civil justice system that certain lawsuit-loving, special interest-favoring officials have created there. In any case, no one should be surprised the next time my organization cites the Silver State in its Judicial Hellholes report.

Darren McKinney
American Tort Reform Association
Washington, DC

Should doctors and pharmaceutical companies be liable to patients who become addicted to habit-forming drugs they prescribe/manufacture? If State Sen. Tick Segerblom (D-Las Vegas) has his way, they will be. Segerblom recently introduced SB 75, which wo…

The simplest way of handling this is to eliminate our drug laws. They were started in 1913. Before that, you could obtain anything you desired, and they pretty much had the same equivalent to what is on the shelves now in respect to pain meds and some mind altering drugs, like cocaine (by the way, what did FDR do immediately after hearing about Pearl Harbor, he took a hit of cocaine). Now stir in the fact that these laws have done nothing to effect the rate of drug use among those that will abuse the medication. Then add the fact that there is no such thing a addiction. There is certainly physical dependence that can be over come in short order by gradual withdrawal of the drug. But to think there is some alteration in brain chemistry that makes you have to constantly use medications is a falsehood and is propagated by our government and other interest that desire the status quo. Now, who are the forces against self medication and deregulation? Mostly the progressives on both sides. Those that want the government to be in our lives. This is from both the conservative far right and the liberals. Economics has demonstrated that if people use drugs, they do not get “addicted” to the point that they are a slave to the drug. The reason some drugs are more popular than others is cost. They will go for the cheapest. These people that abuse drugs will abuse anything, I have

Many people in the US are suffering because of this stupidity. Other countries are beginning to withdraw their tyrannical laws, we need to do so as well.

and some that do become law.

There’s still the I used to live in California, but moved to Nevada; and The I got my Rx filled in California while I lived in Nevada; and, There’s always class actions for all addicted people everywhere.

You seem convinced that facts and logic will prevail over greed. If so, I’ve got some ocean front property in Nevada you might be interested in.