Originally Posted by dlssmith

This is sort of related: Years ago I saw a 60 minutes thing on terminal cancer patients using Heroin for pain control in a clinic in England. Everyone involved said - hey they're terminal, and heroin works better than anything else - and doesn't have the side effects of some less effective pain killers. I am not an advocate of legalizing heroin, but in this country you can't even get it by prescription. How screwed up is that?