Friday, August 28, 2009

[epilepsy] TREATMENT OF EPILEPSY

 

Sandy here. This is interesting. How were you transporting your medications or scripts?
Why were you arrested?
 
 
From: TIMOTHY BALDWIN tbb1@prodigy.net
Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 2:44 PM

All who carry medicine in their pockets, I've been arrested and charged twice with, Possession of Drugs. Both times the "drugs" were in police possession as evidence and not available to me to use as prescribed. Even though Title II of ADA, tells them to provide water to anyone.. for the taking of their medicines. And without a doctor on their premises, I've been advised that I'd have to go to a hospital..  its their responsibility to take me there since I was behind their bars for something that would be dropped. I was possession of a copy of prescriptions and bottle labels, But they weren't in that bottle, if they had been supposedly the cops would have took them as medicines. Even though they could easily had read my Medic Alert and viewed its information.    

From: Jason <tiscione@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:28:33 PM
 
The definition of a "drug" isn't very technical; it's more of a colloquialism.
Vitamin C can be considered a drug that cures scurvy..
(Now keep in mind this is talking about the setup in the U.S.)

When substances, whatever they are, get packaged into things that are sold for their medicinal value and that are regulated by the FDA (possibly the DEA), we start calling those things "dosage forms". A "dosage form" isn't merely referring to the substance itself (like phenytoin), it also includes the dosage, pill shape, color.. They call the phenytoin itself the "raw material". Along with toxic "raw materials" that are only used in the chemical analysis of drugs. Those are the terms of art; nobody worries about what a "drug" is.

I used to have a crappy job in a lab doing quality analysis for pharmaceuticals.. Individual items like cold cream might sound like bad examples of drugs, but the FDA treats all "dosage forms" the same, and that includes cold cream. Whether "dosage form" is the same as "drug" is a matter of opinion. Hyperbaric oxygen is definitely a dosage form- O2 at 6 atmospheres- but it doesn't automatically mean O2 is a drug. O2 is a "raw material".. 
Jason

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