Mike Orren Staff

FYI, we generally delete spam comments (which thankfully registration makes rare). This one was right on the line for me. It is slightly germane to the topic.

That said, I was already going to ask what our users thought. Good input. I'll continue to mull whether this one stays or goes.

1 year, 7 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Mike Orren Staff

Thanks for digging in, twisteddog. It's gone.

1 year, 7 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Mike Orren Staff

Received the following email related to the removal of the NancyB comment above:

I was surfing the net and found the erroneous comments about Nancy Barmashi and the NAABT website. This was in the comment section relative to a story about a young adult that overdosed on heroin. The post that Nancy made was deemed spam and it was not. Nancy is indeed one of the administrators of a site that provides education and sources for buprenophine treatment for opiate addicted persons.

Before one automatically assumes that the comment was spam perhaps it would have been appropriate to investigate. Buprenorphine is a medication that is literally saving thousands of lives of those who suffer with the disease of addiction. I know that Nancy's motivation in posting the information that she did would have been to offer assistance to people or their family members. Nancy came to her career choice as she had close friends who suffered with addiction.

I personally have a son who became addicted to pain pills. He went to a rehab and tried abstinence. It didn't work. The success rate with abstinence based rehabs is less than 5%. Bupe has offered him an opportunity to feel well enough physically so that he could then focus on other issues in his life. I am a nurse and my husband ( who died suddenly eight months ago) was a physician so we investigated this treatment as an option for our son. It has worked and continues to work for thousands and thousands of people daily. Addiction is not a crime to be punished nor a sin to be forgiven, but a disease that needs treatment. We can be proactive and get vital lifesaving information out to those suffering and their families or we can buy into the old way of thinking that it is a moral failing and just a matter of will power. The brain is an organ just like any other organ in the body and is subject to disease.

It just saddened me to see Nancy Barmashi's post removed and then to have it deemed spam when it was anything but that.

Thank you for your time.

The message in question was still linked in DC's comment above:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/sto...

8 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )