On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 10:58:42 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp wrote:
The world would be a little more fair maybe, if we locked tobacco
company CEO's up alongside the other drug dealers :-)

Given the problems the US is having with prescription pain killers, would
you add in doctors and drug companies too?

No! Totally different scenario, apparrantly the problems with
painkillers in the US are based on what started as a genuine treatment
for pain relief.

One would be tempted to think that the cause of the problem was
private medical practice and a failiure to provideaffordable joint
surgery, but some of the deaths have occurred to people that One would
think were well able to afford a few new joints.

Anyway, I have little doubt that most of the doctors involved are
acting in what they see as the best interests of their patients.

God help the American people if that isn't the general case, the poor
dears have a very big blonde millstone around their necks already :-)


And then there's alcohol...

A tool, like the odd spanner or screwdriver in the toolbox.

Some get great pleasure from it and use it as a way to release their
creativity, careful use of said tool can lead to more effective social
interaction and can help build relationships.

Sadly there are a few who's use of alcohol and also spanners and
screwdrivers incidentally, will lead to misery, financial difficulties
and a life that is full of incoherent ramblings about their great
"successes" and of course the propensity for constantly telling others
how to do things.

AB