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Doctor's Lawsuit Targets Parents of Patient Who Overdosed
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration stripped Dr. Kevin Buckwalter of his ability to prescribe narcotics, citing the death of eight patients. Now Buckwalter claims a malpractice suit filed by the parents of Andrea Duncan, who died in 2005, is an abuse of the legal process.
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@Judson…in defense of Shyam, while there is no debate that a few doctors that run "prescription mills," a doctor cannot see the future. Some people (I know one) had a legally-prescribed pain medication, which was taken as prescribed. Some people do commit suicide without much, if any, forethought. A doctor cannot forsee this. Also, as I am a psychology student, I can tell you that most people who truly intend to commit suicide will never let on that they are doing so. They know that someone, if they give any clues, will try to stop them. Being that doctors are not mind-readers with crystal balls, I definitely think that doctors get too much blame in this issue. The overwhelming percentage of them prescribe medications based on specific guidelines and safe dosages. The only way the doctors should be held responsible (now, in this case, this doctor did some questionable things; I'm talking in general, overall terms), is if the patient had to come to them one, two, or three times a day while the doctor gave them each individual pill. Which clearly is not practical. It is the patient's responsibility to take the medication as prescribed. If the pain medication is not working for them, then it needs to be discussed with their doctor.
@Lucretia - I agree, the patient doesn't get off scott-free, I mean, they have ultimately, as free adults, responsibility for themselves. A doctor or medical worker cannot be their guardian 24/7.
It's sad when people call it quits, basically, but these things happen
And who is to say it wouldn't happen anyway with or without medication
There are no crystal balls, just responsible professional care.
The only way to know for sure the drugs are taken as prescribed would be to hospitalize all and keep them on a locked ward where they can be constantly supervised, which is obviously not possible OR desirable. We have freedom, as individuals, for better or worse.
If we lock people up they may be safe but I imagine there would be law suits aplenty challenging the right to do so.
So you see, sometimes, either way you go - there are going to be problems. until we gain mind control (don't want to go there) we won't know what people are thinking or planning. We go on what we got and hope it turns out right this time.
I agree. I am very much an advocate of personal responsibility. By and large, doctors prescribe what is needed. Our society is shifting to a mindset that it's always someone else's fault, and that is a terrifying mindset for a society to have. While his practices were shoddy, he is an example of a "bad doctor". Unfortunately, doctors like him get all the good doctors labelled as well. I hold firmly to my belief that if someone does not take their medications as prescribed, that's their fault, not the doctor's.
I agree with your statement about whatever happens has to be SOMEBODY else's fault.
God forbid we ever accept our responsibility.
I'm not talking about, for example, a car manufacturer that knew that the fuel tanks were likely to rupture or at a rate unacceptable and kept that knowledge to themselves.
Here in K.C., a child of 13 out at 3 in the morning driving a stolen truck with drugs inside and weilding something that looked like a handgun but wasn't had some sort of breakdown in parental supervision.
But, the city I live in was sued and I, as part of the taxpayer, ended up paying this "grieving" family for the loss of their son. If they had care that much about him they would have known where he was or at the very least not held SOMEONE ELSE accountable.
SOMEBODY pays - you and me.
I am the father of Andrea Duncan, she was in a serious auto accident in 2001, had severe back injury and brain injury. HE NEVER EXAMINED HER for anything, she was not DRUG SHOPPING, she ONLY TOOK WHAT WAS PRESCRIBED AS PRESCRIBED, he denied giving her some of the drugs he prescribed, and once he knew he was being investigated, he destroyed and then falsified medical records.HE IS AN ANIMAL who has killed many patients, We did not sue for money , we sued to end his ability to kill others as he did my Daughter and Son in Law, in the end . The MD who supports him in this forum should be ashamed of himself. When Buckwalter faces his maker we know where he will go along with his brother who is a lawyer and helped him destroy the medical records.
Dear John,
Our family is so sorry for your loss of Andrea not only did Andrea's case start Dr. Buckwalters strength of being an idiot come to light .How dare he sue anyone who he is RESPONSIBLE for their death . He actually threw his records in a dumpster quoted in a deposition along with his computers he broke the law by not keeping the proper records .You are so correct he will meet his maker !! Through the flames of hell he will go .So sorry to you & your family Sincerely family of Staci
A lot of comments - some I agree with and some not. I empathize with the family who lost their daughter, naturally it causes a lot of grief and sometimes self-recrimination (more than likely not deserved) and the feeling may be that we need to "do something" to deal with the pain. There is no going back, the deceased is gone. However, pursuing a legal claim in a lawsuit might help give direction and a feeling of making a difference.
Lucretia and I have basically agreed for the most part. Let me say that I have been taking strong medications most of my adult life. You can't imagine the negative bias there is toward someone like me or others needing longterm drug treatment. The bias seems to come from people who have been blessed THUS FAR with good health and so they haven't needed to take much in the way of RX medications. Lucky for them, too bad for those who need medication like me. The luck of the draw, genetically. Looking back on my life I can definitely see how very much I was my father's daughter except my father was of the old school and grew up in a time when "mental" pain was dismissed as somebody with too much time on their hands, that's why both my parents told me. But I see a definite pattern between my father and myself. Both of us turned to alcohol to deal with some life issues. Both of us were depressed though either didn't talk about it (my father) or if you did talk about it then it caused problems of recrimination and criticism toward me. There's no one who can more quickly identify someone who is depressed and mentally a little off than someone else in the same general boat. I see looking back over my father's life that he did many of the things I now do, I have somewhat isolated myself, the tedium and stress of being out and about in society isn't worth it to me so I stay home. But I know I need medication, I was a basket case without it. Now I am able to function, some days better than others. If I were to be an elitist and declare with haughty arrogance "no drugs for me" then I would be cheating myself and my family out of a better me. I'm not crazy, far from it, I feel everything intensely and notice things that seem to escape others attention. Whatever hurt there is in the world affects me deeply. I don't seem to be able to set limits for myself, if I know of something painful happening (like for example animal abuse) takes over my life and I can focus on only that. Drug therapy helps me mitigate those effects at least in part.
I've also had occasion to take RX pain killers. I have an addictive personality and even though I did not tell my doctor, I knew I was starting to "adjust" my dosage myself for the wrong reasons. I didn't tell him that, it would have not served my purpose, i.e. to not get cut off.
Medication has a very real and important place in our life, it can make a huge difference in quality of life. I also know there are addictive things out there and that I too easily can become dependent. I know there are side effects to drugs as we are supposed to read the insert that comes with medication or look it up online. If I don't agree with what a doctor is doing for me, I am free to find another. But the doctor gives me my prescriptions and its up to me, as someone who is of sound mind, even though a depressed state of mind sometimes, to take it responsibly and not do my own adjustments.
I think this doctor was definitely in the wrong for prescribing the pills he did to this young woman without first examining her. But this was an adult with a functioning mind. If she was so out of it that she could not keep her own safety and well-being in mind then she should have been somewhere getting help for that. I find it interesting that within days of each other these two young people both died of drug overdoses and both had the same doctor. Yet both did meet the same end, even the one left behind chose to continue the drug therapy (not sure if it was the dosage prescribed) even though they had good cause to see what happened to their spouse and take action to be sure the same did not happen to them.
I don't think you can blame the doctor if people who need medication don't take it as prescribed or tend to self-adjust and/or combine medications they might get from different doctors. There's pressure on doctors, now, I think, that wasn't there years ago. Most doctors are in some kind of group/clinic where they are expected to see "x" number of patients per hour/day and there are patients who go away disappointed if they don't leave with a prescription in hand.
I have abused drugs at times (the pain killers). I knew I was but I continued anyway. I needed them when I started but took them too long. I KNEW and I Did It, no one did it to me. I KNOW I need antidepressants and i also know they get a bad rap by people fortunate enough not to need them. Some people who could get help don't because they hear others talk about the dangers of drugs when its all hearsay.
What I'm saying is its a complicated question with lots of details that vary from person to person. There is no "one size fits all". But ultimately surivival is a basic human instinct. Our survival instinct should tell us when we are going astray with RX scrips or anything. If we listen to our common sense we change. If we don't our survival/happiness is questionable. But I am ultimately responsible for myself. I am intelligent and if I have questions or don't feel the doctor and I communicate well enough to be effective, its an open marketplace where I am free to find someone else. I get the scrips from my doctor which hopefully he prescribes with care however, there is a backup system of safety, my own self-interest. Its up to me to evaluate how well something works, how well I communicate with a given doctor, and how well I'm following directions. If I don't do the right thing (and ask questions and get answers like for, example the constipation issue - anyone reasonably aware knows you cannot go so long and not do something to correct it. If the doctor you tell about the symptom that bothers you then go to someone who will.
We are all masters of our fate, our own ship. I acknowledge there are doctors who are less than quality out there. If we use our common sense hopefully it will lead us in the right direction. If I go to a doctor needing surgery and everything leads me to believe he is qualified but due to his lack of care I expire while undergoing surgery, there was no way I would know that. But with an ongoing doctor/patient responsibility I should be evaluating how well things or going. I should be reading, listening, thinking about how it all works together.
Ultimately, its up to me. To blame anything other than an unforseeable accident due to someone else's reckless behavior is a cop out. The liberal/socialist mindset today is "whatever happens - blame it on someone else". That's wrong. It's up to me, ultimately, to use my common sense to safeguard and guide myself.
There is no clearer evidence of patients who engage in drug-seeking some very questionable choices. That website is obviously aimed at someone who isn't able to get these powerful drugs from a face-to-face doctor visit.
Clearly there are ways to bypass a physician's recommendation. The people who go to sites like that are aware they are drug-seeking and should stop/get help.
And yes, Vicodin is not to be used as an antidepressant. It may make someone feel less depressed for a while but its no solution and ultimately will add another problem on top of the ones already present.
VICODIN is NOT an antidepressant. Get real.
The only thing we can hope for is that he does not get reinstated by NV medical board, plus I really doubt the DEA will ever let him practice his evil ways again, the lawsuit against us was filed only so he can say that he was right and we were wrong, he has no money left, he cannot get a job, and if anyone does hire him I question their sanity, and some people here JUST DON'T GET IT, HE IS A KILLER, plain and simple, no one will ever see a dime, he only got his insurance policy because he lied to them to get it, and Anne, this has nothing to do with Liberal/Socialist mindset, again in my Daughters case there was no drug shopping, we have the pharmacy records,why anyone defends this" man" is beyond me. Lisa keep up the fight, you have our support, we have been in this fight for 6 years now, and I will neve stop until we have justice for EVERYONE who's life this idiot has ended,I will fight this until I die. and Thank You Marshal for bringing this to national attention.
I understand why you are grieving your daughter's death. I'm sure I would do the same in your situation. I am not defending him as much as just saying that we do need to accept a certain measure of accountability for our actions. We are deemed to be intelligent and rational human beings absent any information to the contrary. As such we must decide for ourselves what is safe to do and what is unsafe. All drugs carry significant warnings about their use, abuse, side effects, dangers, warnings etc. We want the right to be treated as independent intelligent adults, I know I do. However, with that right there is an implied responsibility on my part to use my intelligence and my resources for knowledge about a given subject to help me decide what is safe to do.
I am not trying to be some holier than thou person. I admitted my own lapses of judgment in my own case. No one forced those pills I took down my throat just as hopefully no one forced your daughter to take them. I'm sorry she is gone, I'm sorry you are hurt. But we can't expect to be treated as adults if we refuse to accept any responsibility for our choices.
I hope you find a way to a peaceful place in your heart. I hope you have memories of your daughter that you will treasure forever.
Sometimes good people make mistakes. I know I have. I paid a price for my mistakes. Some mistakes come with a higher price tag.
I hope you don't let your grief override your pursuit of happiness and peace of mind.
@ Anne
You really do not have a clue about what Dr. Buckwalter has done , he has lied about everything .You say one size fits all well Dr. always gave out the same dose to all his patients .Someone who weighed 200 received the same dose as a 119 pound girl ? He never examined his patients .I have my niece"s who died medical records you know what they say "wants RX" What kind of appointment is that ? If you started following this case from the start which is Andrea's you would understand how evil & unkind he was to give all scripts out.I also blame the pharmacies that supplied these drugs , often the pharmacy would call Dr. Buckwalters office & ask "are you sure you want to give this patient 500 pills " He said I am the Doc fill it. He is so responsible for everyone who died under his care.Unless you die of natural causes , but this didn't happen over 10 people died all patients of Dr.I lost my 21 year old niece 3 years ago , if the Medical Board had suspended his license after Andrea died , my niece would have never walked into his office of death .It is crazy that the Medical Board couldn't see what he had done he was responsible not only for Andrea but her husband's death.The Medical Board finally suspended his license in Nov. 2008, too late for my niece we complained to no end that he was wrong .You say good people make mistakes well Dr. is NO GOOD .My niece was a beautiful young girl who walked into his office @ 19 years old.Her final visit 720 pills in 25 days were prescribed she weighed 119 pounds .Wow = 29.2 pills a day she also followed the label finally after all those nasty pills she was gone , her body couldn't handle 29 pills a day her brain was so disoriented she didn't know which way was up or down .She was my niece & her name is Staci , & I won't rest until he goes to jail because he is a murderer.Just because he has a Dr in front of his name does not make him God .Because he is an idiot & Karma will get him RIP Staci
This defies logic and reason but sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.
I find it incredible that after all you have said about this doctor (and surely communicated to your niece and other relatives and friends) that your niece chose to go there to the same doctor and then took this excessive amount of medication to the point she died. Did she not think caution was called for? It is freely advertised, warned and available to read the facts about your RX medications and to ask your pharmacist if you have questions.
I can't believe your niece would have voluntarily taken an excessive number of pills which can't have left her very functional if at all from someone who according to a family member acted irresponsibly and caused your daughters death.
People have a responsibility to think. Did your niece's other relatives say anything to her about going to this doctor or taking what he prescribed?
I'm not giving him a free ride. I realize full well there are incompetent and negligent doctors out there, I'm just saying that surely some of these people would have had the presence of mind to ask questions? There should have been warning flags going up all around but yet no one said anything and your niece followed the regimen.
When i take pills that make me feel bad or worse, I would ask questions and more than likely quit taking them before the doctor was even seen. Maybe the medical community might say that choice was wrong on my part but its up to me to decide what to do.
Lisa, sorry I did not notice the previous comment was from you I wrongly assumed it was from the Mr. DeBaun.
The note in your niece's file saying "wants RX" tells me that she went there specifically for pain pills. Unless someone is drug seeking I think it would be unlikely they would got straightaway to the "I want prescription" scenario and instead ask what all my options were. I do not obviously know all the facts but you are wrong, I do have a clue. I have a clue due in part to the number of years I have been on this earth with my eyes wide open and also knowing my own tendencies and also knowing its up to me to ask questions about medications and so forth. It appears based on what you said that the reason her file says "wants RX" is because that is what she went there for. Many people hunt for doctors to prescribe pain meds. They do so at their peril. Its their life, who could possibly be more motivated to verify and ask questions?
I'm curious about your claim that I said "one size fits all". You appear to have paraphrased something I said into your interpretation of "one size fits all" because I do not recall having said any such thing.
UNLESS you are referring to the admonition that ALL of us are ultimately responsible to check and verify because who has the most to lose. In that regard, that we all have the most to live as far as our own health and life goes, you are right. Each of us should care enough about our life to ask questions and to realize (it is not a hidden fact that pain meds kill especially when abused) that what we put into our body has the potential to help or wound.
Hi Anne,
My niece walked into Dr.'s office to get off Oxy's she had been addicted to because of Heppa laws after your 18 they can't tell mommy.I found her journal after her death clearly stating that she no longer wanted to be addicted to drugs so she went 2 see a doctor to GET OFF drugs .So on her first visit he gave her Xanax & hydrocodone & methadone .Well she overdosed on the methadone , when her mom got the call she lied to her mom & said she wanted to try it & got it from a friend. But the nurse asked my sister to leave & Staci admitted it came from her Dr.This was noted in ER records .On her next visit he took her off methadone & gave her Xanax & Hydrocodene this went on for months .Every month like clockwork she went there now getting even more pills the office manger even spoke with the doctor & said this is to many scripts , she was shot down by Dr.You may ask where her family was during all this her mom worked 5 days a week & Staci knew what days mom was off .Staci moved out on her own paying rent & a car payment she had a good job with benefits.If you have children you know they text often you can't hear their voice or hear any emotion.So on the 2 days my sister was off they did the mom daughter things lunch ,nails ,hair. Staci knew Mom had 2 work so she knew when 2 be clean .She often wrote in her journal that she was ashamed of what she is doing to her body by taking these pills she wanted to stop, that is why she went to Dr he was in her medical plan .He should have stopped giving her all those pills , she was showing signs of drug seeking behavior .Send her to a rehab center & he should have stopped her. Then as I said the last week exactly what happened he gave her Oxy's (the same drug she went to him addicted 2 ) he never wrote anything down .So my poor niece is no longer here :(. Just want u to understand there are 2 sides 2 every story , and as for me I live in Illinois so I only saw her a few times a year & noticed nothing ,Anne sometimes I blame myself for not seeing her addiction how could I miss it maybe I could of helped every day I live with this pain . But knowing a professional dr was seeing her every month why did he continue to prescribe ?
Lisa - what happened to your niece was a very sad event there is no disputing that. Drugs that may at first seem to be a blessing can end up being a curse but they wait until we are addicted before revealing themselves not as benefactor but as adversary.
You verified my suspicion that your niece went to this doctor because she was drug-seeking. perhaps her previous source had refused to provide anymore of this substance that she was addicted to.
The doctor was clearly wrong in prescribing these medications to her if he knew (and it seems he knew or should have recognized your niece as someone having difficulties with substance abuse or if he was just in the business of being a "source" for your niece and others. That does seem to be much of what he was.
Drugs rob us of our common sense and our dignity. Your niece failed herself as did this doctor.
A lot of things usually combine to reach such a final sad ending. I empathize with this young ladies family. I also believe you would be happier if you face the facts as they actually were. Forgive your niece and forgive yourself for what transpired and do your best to spread the word? IMO. the truth will set us free?
To answer the question why did this doctor see your niece as often as he did and yet continue to prescribe this deadly medication?
The answer is one of supply and demand. As long as there are people out there in search of some magic potion to fix our lives even when a part of them knows the danger.
If you want to lighten your burden, maybe educating others about the ambiguous results might help both yourself and others. Good luck, its not easy facing the cold hard facts of life sometimes, is it?
My niece walked into dr's office with the intent of her becoming clean ,street drugs are a dime or dozen in Vegas .Because of Dr's like him who prescribe whatever the heck you want.I want you to know that I have her journal & everything was written down in there as to why she took her original step of going to see him.She made it perfectly clear she didn't like what the street drugs did to her , She was excited to see this new Dr. who would fix her & treat her condition.She never Dr. Shopped only seeing him.So the cold hard facts is that he may have started her treatment with methadone ,when that failed he went to the harder more addictive drugs ,& if you know the definition of addiction you can certainly understand just how a 19 year old girl was feeling.Sometimes you cant go to your family for help ,she chose a man with a license & a degree.So I say he is 100% responsible ,how can 10 people die from his care & all be wrong ?
How can you say she went to him to become clean from drugs? She went to him for more drugs. You are looking for a way to say she was innocent of all wrong. She didn't want to change to no drugs she wanted to find an easy way to do nothing. If as you say 10 people went to him and died as a result - then 10 people chose to die. There is no easy way to survive, sometimes it means suffering.
If she truly wanted to stop she would find a hospital to go to where she had no choice but to do what they said. It is illogical to say someone wanted to stop doing drugs when they went to a doctor with a reputation for giving out drugs.
You are playing word games and mind games desperate to do exactly what your niece tried to do, which is deny the truth. You can't have it both ways. You can't say "I want to be clean" and "I will sign up with a new doctor to give me drugs" and make sense.
Stop lying to yourself. The doctor was wrong to do what he did. But that does not mean your niece was innocent. It is hard being 19 and it is hard being 99. We don't want to humble ourselves to our families and say "I'm lost I need help, I am out of control of myself". So we look for magic doctors who will somehow let us keep doing the wrong thing but because he is a doctor it will suddenly be alright. Everyone wants a way to take the easy way. If it is hard it has to be because of someone else's error, not mine.
Drugs can kill whether we get them off the street or "legally". The doctor is not innocent and neither is your niece. That is the cold reality there is no nice way to say it. Sometimes the world is not nice. Sometimes the world sucks. We can accept it or deny it but it still sucks sometimes.
Mothers want to say that sons out in the middle of the night with drugs and guns and gangs who die were not at fault. It HAS TO BE SOMEONE ELSES FAULT.
Denial and word games are what you want but they are not answers only excuses. How many sons and how many daughters have to die before we stop lying to ourselves and admit that sometimes WE screw up, WE get it wrong?
This is a direct quote:
".Well she overdosed on the methadone , when her mom got the call she lied to her mom & said she wanted to try it & got it from a friend. But the nurse asked my sister to leave & Staci admitted it came from her Dr.This was noted in ER records .On her next visit he took her off methadone & gave her Xanax & Hydrocodene this went on for months .Every month like clockwork she went there now getting even more pills the office manger even spoke with the doctor & said this is to many scripts"
Your niece overdosed.
She lied about where she got it because she knew if she told the truth that it was the doctor who gave it to her that he would get in trouble and/or quit prescribing her the drugs SHE WANTED.
She was in such a condition that she had to go to the ER, which sounds serious.
Your niece was not stupid, she realized the danger she was in so she went to the ER.
In spite of the danger she was aware of and recognized as such yet "ON HER NEXT VISIT" he gave her scrips for another legal cocktail.
She went back to a person who enabled her and assisted her to engage in risky behavior.
NOW, you want to say she is innocent.
You are in denial and you need to stop. When people become a certain age they are deemed to be adults and they get all the privileges and responsibilities that go along with it. She had the responsibility to care for herself but she chose to do something that was dangerous and wrong. The fact the doctor was a co-conspirator in her demise does not negate the fact that in essence she killed herself.
Sorry to be blunt but it is what it is.
Listen, you people who say you care and want to help.
Another quote, this one from Carol, a medical care professional:
"Our office see several new patients each month seeking pain medication (WE ARE A PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENT CLINIC). They are doctor shopping looking for a Dr. Buckman. There are far too many of them out there making a profit at the expense of their patient's health. Law suits are the most effective way to get their and the medical board's attention. counter siuts are their right but judges don't have to agree to try trhm and can still dismiss them."
You see SEVERAL new patients SEEKING pain meds and you acknowledge they are "doctor shopping" for someone who will give them their "legal drugs" that way they won't have to confess to using street drugs.
You say LAW SUITS are the most effective way to put a stop to these doctors.
YOU are enabling these patients/"victims" by absolving them of responsibility.
Like I said, its "supply and demand". Without the DEMAND/seeking from "doctor shoppers" there would be no such doctors. Without such doctors there would be no SUPPLY. Each feeds off the other.
But everyone wants to lay the ultimate assessment of guilt on the physician and console the families of those who died by saying their loved one was a VICTIM.
What rule is there IN NATURE that says if someone else is at fault that gets us off the hook?
Animals in nature, wild animals, know and accept it is up to them to be alert and aware. Yes, they can sleep mid-afternoon in a territory they know to be infested with lions and tigers. But if they choose to do so, Mother Nature isn't going to say that these sleeping animals are innocent victims. They are going to be what they are, i.e. animals who made poor choices who are now dead.
We want to ignore the laws of nature and allow ourselves (tell ourselves and each other) to act in ways that a reasonable person would know is dangerous AND say that it wasn't our fault.
The laws of nature really don't ultimately revolve around guilt or innocence, they revolve around alive or dead.
It's society that complicates things with fault and culpability and blame and verdicts when it all comes down to do we choose to be alive or dead?
"Sometimes you cant go to your family for help, she chose a man with a license & a degree. So I say he is 100% responsible."
So, to say another way, as long as we can find a professional who will cooperate with us in our drug-seeking behavior - that if/when we die it is HE (the professional) who is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT RESPONSIBLE.
Assuming that to be true/accepted - okay HE is responsible but the deceased users is still DEAD.
So do you want to argue about whose fault it is or do you want to say "If I want to live there are certain things I can't do".
Finding a PROFESSIONAL to BLAME - if that makes you feel better then you are telling the next DECEASED it's OKAY to do your drugs because WE SAY you aren't at fault. Now, is everybody happy? We can mourn our loved one basking in the glow/knowledge that our loved one was an innocent lamb lead to slaughter. And we can do so because we have discovered the real MONSTER. BAD MONSTER. Poor little victim.
I guess it makes a good story. But does it change / improve anything. Will our young people accept responsibility for their choices or will they continue to act irresponsibly knowing that mommy and daddy will say it wasn't my fault.
It's a culture we have of holding our princes and princesses innocent of wrong-doing. It starts the first time they steal a penny candy from the store. "Oh well, its only a penny candy and I don't want to crush my child's spirit or self-confidence so I won't scold them or teach them right from wrong".
GOD FORBID we ever feel any guilt or remorse or admit we were wrong. Far better to leave in a "make believe world" where we can always be good/right and someone else is the monster.
Our culture teaches us to be the next DECEASED VICTIM.
You may choose not to fill in the blanks/intervening time between the penny candy episode and the drug seeking (or other wrongdoing) activity.
Denial, denial, denial. But there's one reality you CAN'T deny: DEATH.
Death won't be bargained with. It doesn't have degrees of dead, you are either dead or you aren't.
There is no "Dead but not at fault" or "Dead because of dumb activity".
It's just this simple: Dead or Not.
Even now I can hear some of you saying what a bad/nasty/cruel/heartless person I am. You can't accept any reality other than your dreamworld. You set yourself up to fail and whether its me or the Pill Mill Doctor you will go to your grave without ever admitting it could be YOUR FAULT. Feel better now?
Anne , you are really making me angry about what u have just said she was Innocent !! She went to the ER not on her own but by her friend knowing she had stopped breathing , so there .She lies to her mom ,but she told the TRUTH to the attending Nurse on duty.Which was documented & faxed to her primary care killer.So don't take my quote without reading it correctly.She walked into his office for HELP.What did she know was about to become of herself. He encouraged her to follow this regimen to become clean .If you were sick would you listen to a doctor or the woman at the grocery store.Why didn't he say no answer that? Why did he throw all of his patients records in the dumpster? Why did he lie about prescribing Andrea Morphine in a deposition ? She went back to him to get clean so the drugs he gave her she assumed that they would work at the temptation of blocking the opiate receptors in her brain.You are an idiot at the least to say that 10 people wanted 2 die .John never wanted Andrea to die .Mr. Baile never wanted his wife of 40 years to die , and so on.So how did Staci know that this man had a reputation for giving out too many pills .The Medical Board never suspended his license so he was free & willing .When you have an insurance plan , you always need to go to a primary care physician first. Well he never refered her to any1 else he wanted to keep her as a patient .Answer me why would he prescribe her 310 Oxy's in 10 days ? Knowing she walked into his office to GET OFF Oxy's .So don't give me or anyone this crap it was her fault .If you can answer all my questions I will apologize but for now you are being bi-pilor .Interested in what you have 2 say Anne.So you can honestly say this doctor should be given his license back ? He can go to hell .
Technically this article is about the Debaun's being sued for what ?An idiot doctor that hid all his money in his brothers name the financial accountant & his brother the laywer suing everyone because he is bored & an idiot also.So do you agree Anne with the Debaun's being sued , its a friggin slap & a knife in the heart of all who died .We all feel the pain & like John said keep up the fight I will .Because of people like you who don't understand what he did to us .
Sorry, Lisa, I'm not here to make you happy. I have tried my best to be sensitive to your needs and feelings however that isn't good enough.
Nothing will do except that I give in and join the "I'm an innocent victim" brigade.
Well then I guess that I'll just have to be on the outside looking in. I call it like I see it.
Claiming victimhood of someone who went willingly/knowingly to slaughter doesn't make it in the real world.
Obviously it does no good to try to HELP you Lisa so I'll be quiet now and let you continue to preach how someone who obviously knew enough to lie and conceal her activity is really innocent.
Have fun in that dream (nightmare) world of yours.
Put yourself in a 19 year olds shoes doctor says take these 29 pills a day & you will feel better .That was her last month of life he saw her 2 weeks before she died . If he knew she was drug seeking why did he knowing help her achieve this goal .He is So resonsible he mind was infiltrated with 29 pills a day .By now she was so addicted & her brain was mush . He knew that & many of his office staff told him pharmacies told him .That is why the Medical Board took away his license
"Because of people like you who don't understand what he did to us ."
I disagree - it is people like you who don't/won't understand. it feels too good to be victimized and hurts too much to accept responsibility.
I KNOW what is at stake is far more important than convincing someone about an innocent victim.
Keep playing games and people keep dying. It's up to you.
As for me, deal me out. Stupid isn't a game I choose to play. Yes, I know (as I predicted only a minute ago) I'm a Cold/Vicious/Heartless person. Have it your way.
So I guess you couldn't answer my questions just goes to prove you don't have the answers ? If all 10 people who drug seeking please explain the 69 year old woman who died ,I highly doubt she was drug seeking.
"Have fun in that dream (nightmare) world of yours." your quote
You can go to hell & back Anne Miss know it all .I thought you could see both sides but you are only seeing your Bi-Polar side today ??
One final time - He is guilty BUT so is she.
Supply and Demand. You figure it out.
"You can go to hell & back Anne Miss know it all .I thought you could see both sides but you are only seeing your Bi-Polar side today ?? "
I'm perfectly sane and not at all bi-polar.
The fact that I refuse to dumb myself down as you have doesn't make me crazy.
However, you reveal much about yourself. Having refused to agree with you the only answer you can come up with is that I'm Crazy.
I'm not the one who killed myself by continuing to engage in risky behavior.
I don't have to answer your questions. I've explained myself clearly and I won't be held captive to your mind games.
You're sick. I'm not.
She is not guilty , she is a victim of a murderer .Many specialists from all over the country reviewed her medical record s, and were in awe over just how irresponsible he was to her .He killed her bottom line , & my job is to see he never gets is license back & goes 2 jail . Thanks for wishing me nightmares ?
"So I guess you couldn't answer my questions just goes to prove you don't have the answers"
No, it proves I'm not going to answer the same questions and give the same information over and over again to someone who clearly doesn't want answers.
Help isn't what you want. Answers are not what you want.
You're on a "poor me, pity wagon" which is honestly, disappointing. I tried to help be the voice of reason.
Mean and Nasty or
Trying to be Helpful
Either way, that's me - over and out.
"She is not guilty , she is a victim of a murderer "
Okay, have it your way. Either way, whoever's fault it was - she's dead. As far as her life and her potential was concerned - game over - she's dead.
Who had the most to lose? She did. And She Lost.
No I am not on a poor me pity wagon .I feel bad for all the 10 people who left this world too early .So are you saying that Andrea chose to die ? That Dr. Buckwalter is correct for sueing the family ? I can't seem to find your answer.You don't have to agree with me but being so cruel to my niece is uncalled for .I hope you & your family have a healthy & happy life , that is all I wish for happiness & health for all.
This is not a game if he was not practicing this wouldn't of happened .To say my niece lost & she is dead is coming from a cold hearted bitc# . As you say you call it as you see it .So I can only bet you are loved by all & people just want to be around you all the time because you say it like it is , so you may tell your friends they are fat , ugly or poor. Nice .I respect my friends & family & if help is needed I am there for them , I help strangers that need it .So I will help all 10 people & families put up the fight of their life for JUSTICE .
Ok if this make sense to anybody let me see lady went to see doctor to get offa street drug. So the doctor he give her methadone. So is when she's going to go home and od on methadone. How that's getting off street drug or anyone drug?
I not so sure to Andrea what happen but I think to get off drug you don't go home to od on something else?
I have a brother he always going to stop his drug ways but he say the same thing he want to stop but he never.
People is dealing drugs on corner or in office either way is the way of the devil.
Anne with all respect, in this case you do not know what you are talking about, again HE NEVER EXAMINED ANYONE, HE FOLLOWED THE SAME PRACTICES WITH HIS PATIENTS, he lied under oath, he lied ,lied lied, and his lawyers are trying to cover for him, are you related to this guy ? you really should quit commenting while you are ahead, My daughter had serious injuries, he never looked at xrays or medical records, This Saturday is the 6th anniversay of my Son in Laws death, these people went to him because they trusted him as a doctor to do the right thing, he did anything but, when I called to speak to him ,they would not put the calls thru, someone in his office said to me " no one told her to take all the pills !" she was a very slender girl, again SHE ONLY TOOK AS PRESCRIBED, WHAT DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND ? Mr. Gonzales is right he was nothing but a drug dealer with an office instead of a street corner. We HAVE HEARD ENOUGH FROM YOU. No one said they were perfect people, but they did not have to die, especially since the medical board knew what he was up to in 2004, if they stopped him then none of this would have happened, and guess what he even mailed these prescriptions to his patients which is very much against the law, I was told this by his former office mgr.It took my daughter 23 days to pass away, he never called or said he was sorry.
Your words belie your meaning apparently. You begin "with all due respect" then progress to telling me that I really should quit while I'm ahead. Ahead of what? Is that a threat?
Then you say "WE have heard enough from you". Who is WE you are speaking for?
I accurately predicted the unfriendly reception my words would get in my exchanges with Lisa. Now you are here to threaten and follow suit. My words were mostly specific to what Lisa wrote about her niece if you can read correctly rather than attack. Less specifically and in general my comments were about people who engage in drug seeking activity, myself included.
Do you think I enjoy being labeled as all the hateful things you've charged me with? I don't need this crap and I have other things I could be doing. I'm trying, perhaps stupidly it seems, to send a message that needs to be heard.
You all would demonize me for speaking the truth as I know it to be. You cannot abide someone who speaks the truth and doesn't jump on your shame wagon who wants to assess guilty ONLY to the doctors. More than once I specifically said that yes, the doctors appear to have been negligent. You would be happy if I stopped there. But I continued on to say that the person taking these drugs bears responsibility too.
And speaking of Mr. Gonzalez, please don't pick and choose from his post only the parts you want to hear. It seems he pointed out the absurdity of someone who says on the one hand they want to get off drugs, then goes to a known pill-merchant doctor and gets a prescription for methadone and promptly O on it. Does that sound like someone who is sincere about getting off her drug habit? You don't go to a pill pusher by accident. You don't OD by accident. You don't go to the ER by accident. And having been to the ER due to an overdose and lying about where you got your drugs (you want to protect your supplier after all) you don't take advantage of the situation and confess your addiction and ask for help. A perfect opportunity to check yourself in to a drug treatment program. Instead you brush it off as a one-time thing that you did out of curiosity and say it was a friend that you procured your drugs from.
That does not sound like an innocent victim to me, it sounds like someone hooked on drugs, possibly street drugs, who wanted to get a "legal" supplier or else she mislead the doctor as to her intentions which then were not to get off drugs but to get a new supplier, maybe see if he had something more fun? Cheaper? Easier/less risky to get?
People like Lisa who, despite knowing the addicts true intentions (not what he/she says but what they do) must also be liable, if you wish to point fingers and assess guilt. Instead of helping the addict get clean the message is "it's okay to abuse drugs we won't hold you accountable. Instead we will lay, as Lisa said ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE FAULT on the mean old doctor (who was giving you what you went to him to get). Lisa has described very well the actions of someone who needed encouragement and help to get off these dangerous drugs. Apparently she got neither. She was left to exercise her freedom to choose. You can't have it both ways, claim your constitutional rights to do as you please and then claim ignorance when bitten.
We are a nation of lazy, irresponsible people who want to engage in careless even risky behavior but when the piper comes calling say "but its not my fault". To which I say, with ALL due Respect: BULLSHIT.
Because I won't cooperate with your Get out of Jail Free Card you threaten me and attempt to intimidate me.
There is nothing for me to gain by what I say here. I'm trying to get people to consider the truth that doctors may prescribe drugs but the people/patients are the ones taking them. No one forces them down their throat or gives them intravenously against their will, they get a glass of water and voluntarily take these drugs. Everyone hears the public service announcements about the dangers of drugs, about asking questions, about reading the literature, about TAKE ONLY AS DIRECTED, everyone has read about people who OD from street people to the rich and famous who OD and die. And yet you want to claim total innocence and say "yes I took them, yes I'm adult, no I'm not an imbecile, yes I'm aware of the danger of drugs, yes I realize that's why they require a prescription because they can be deadly, but in spite of all that I ADAMANTLY CLAIM to be an innocent victim with no culpability whatsoever.
That is about the dumbest thing I ever heard. It's denial and it gets you nowhere. Either you want the truth or you don't.
I repeat: The doctor was at fault and so was the patient.
Your daughter and son-in-law died within days of each other and you say both were due to the drug dealing of this doctor. If your spouse dies due to an overdose of drugs prescribed by a doctor to me then it would make sense that I would also question what he did for me, the prescriptions he wrote for me, etc.
If your daughter had a problem for which she needed help then she should seek help. If she sought help from a pill-mill doctor then she bears responsibility.
I'm not trying to take the moral high ground, it could have been me. I flirted with the same danger. I was lucky, I got out before I died as a result.
If you wish to label me as being a hateful person for attempting to share my message, my warning, then please feel free to continue but your intentions are clear. You aren't interested in the truth, you want someone to agree with you.
I exercise my free will to post what I know to be the truth. I don't have to give in to bullies and say what they want me to say.
And please don't threaten me again because I won't agree with you. You don't agree with me. I have not threatened you and I would appreciate the same courtesy.
OMG Anne you obviously do not comprehend much do you ? AGAIN DR BUCKWALTER WAS PART OF A GROUP OF DOCTORS ANYONE COULD CHOSE FROM A PRIMARY CARE PHY.AGAIN WHEN MY NIECE WENT SHE DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS A PILL MILL DOCTOR ,SHE WENT FOR HELP SHE DIDN'T ASK FOR THE METHADONE HE F..NIG PRES. IT 2 HER.MOST INSURANCE COMPANIES HAVE YOU GO 2 YOUR PRIMARY CARE PHY. FOR A REFERAL .WELL HE REFERED HER TO THE GRAVE PRETTY MUCH& YES YOU DO OVERDOSE BY ACCIDENT ,& OF COURSE IF U GO TO THE ER THERE HAS BEEN AN ACCIDENT YOU ARE JUST AS GOOFY AS THIS DOCTOR SERIOUSLY.MY NIECE WAS HOOKED ON OXY'S THE DOCTOR GAVE HER ALL KINDS OF COCKTAILS TELLING HER THIS WILL CURE HER ADDICTION.ITS IN HER JOURNAL LOUD & CLEAR .FINALLY HE GAVE HER THE OXY'S GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN .SO YOU SHOULD BE APOLOGIZING TO A MAN WHO LOST HIS DAUGHTER .YOU DON'T HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO ME ,BECAUSE I KNOW YOU HAVE A SCREW LOOSE .
OMG Lisa - please stop screaming it makes you look hysterical.
I've given up caring what you think - you are beyond reach. Hopefully a few people will read this and recognize the truth.
Your "doctor is 100 percent responsible and my niece is innocent" sealed the deal. You're delusional, I can't help you.
As for me - I apoligize to no one.
My intentions are honorable. Believe it or not, your decision. Either way - the truth is the truth. Darkness is not light no matter how you say it.
Whether he was a pill-mill doctor or not, I'm sure he did not tell anyone to go home and OD. If we don't accept ultimate responsibility as the person who should care the most and who has the most to lose - who else is going to / should care more?
I advocate for personal responsibility. The final analysis is up to us to use common sense, to research, to read instructions, to listen to our inner voice, our instincts, our survival instincts, our instincts for self-protection.
Those who choose to be irresponsible and blame everyone but themselves do so at their own peril.
I learned my lesson. I had hoped to share the faith that it is possible to overcome addiction but no one can do it for you.
There is no pill to take that will help you be not addicted, that defies logic. You have to love yourself enough to want to do what is best for you.
So you actually believe that the doctor is correct in his lawsuit against Andrea's family ?I think it is a damn same that this man thinks he is better then God .I do believe you owe John an apology .How can you not feel sorry for this family ,do you have ice water running through your veins .I feel very sad that a family has to endure years of pain with a lawsuit. I will continue my fight for all who died , under his care .He took an oath when he became a doctor to help not hurt.I guess you can call me anything u want but I will call myself a caring ,nurturing genereous,beautiful person.And there is more to me ...........I really don't want to argue stress is no good ,but your intentions are dark & evil, I don't know why u decide to be such a person ?
Anne ,
If you say you know from your experience how 2 overcome addiction , you should share it with others .I just can't understand how 2 people can read the same article & have completely differant opinions ,thats America for you .I wish you would understand where I am coming from why I am so angry about this doctor .I do believe we can come to an agreement on something about the article because I don't want to argue .
For the record I never said that I believed this doctor was correct in suing the young woman's family.
Don't put words in my mouth, you're very good at that.
I have already given you the answer, or the beginning to conquering addiction. That is accept responsibility. Its no one's responsibility to save us from ourselves. True enough many have families who would, but its up to us to judge ultimately what we do to our bodies. Each time I go to a doctor whether I have seen him many time or no times, its up to me to decide if I agree with his plan and his recommendations. Doctors, a good doctor, would not be critical of a patient's critical look at what he proposes.
The answer for not just addiction but for almost all our self-inflicted woes, stop looking for someone to blame. It doesn't matter if we had a crappy childhood or if our husband/wife cheated on us or if we didn't get the promotion because some suckup did. What matters is realizing we have one life to make of it the best we can. We CAN CHOOSE to throw it away, we are free to do that.
It's okay to need help, its okay to ask for help, its okay to accept help. But the first step toward progress is accepting that we are the masters of our own destiny.
Yes, there some things that happen we have no control over. If we are minding our own business obeying all the traffic laws and some idiot gets drunk and rams into us and injures us, it is not our fault and he/she should answer for what he's done. But as to matters of personal choice and responsibility, its on us.
There is no book to read or 10 steps that I practiced. I just see so many people looking for someone to sue over something. Sometimes we can sue multiple somebody's. I've already given examples of what I consider law suits of merit. This doctor's doesn't fall into that list, its hypocritical, but neither do the lawsuits who wish t o find someone else at fault like mcdonalds if we are fat.
Our body - our life - choose wisely. Blow it - you lose.
Everybody wants a pretty "feel good" answer, some comfort, some "there, there dear". If so - buy yourself a nice greeting card.
Otherwise, face facts - we have the most to lose if we blow it. We owe it to ourselves not to abuse our bodies or purposely do things that we know can harm us. If we do, then we are responsible. The people who make things that they know will harm us are wrong - like cigarette manufacturers. But each of us who smokes chooses to. Yes, its hard to quit, life is tough - deal with it.
We've become a nation of wimps and wusses. Time to grow up, pointing fingers won't repair a ruined life or restore us to life if we end up dead because of something we did. The time to make a difference is before shit happens.
That's it.
And, just for the record, I don't owe anyone an apology for telling the truth as I know it to be and because I advocate for personal responsibility. If a hospital/doctor covers up their bad advice, bad records, the fact that they've killed people by surgical carelessness or lack of attention and we have investigated and have every reason to believe but people covered it all up - that is wrong. But no one has concealed from us that drugs can be dangerous or even deadly or that you can die from drug overdose or from mixing your chosen cocktail of drugs. As rich as Michael Jackson was, he paid the same price for mixing/abusing drugs as the rest of us are liable to - he died.
I'm not here to say pretty stuff. The world of full of pretty stuff that tells us all little girls are princesses who should sleep in pink beds with little pink princess dolls.
For those of us who are grown up - we are not princesses, this is no magic potion, no prince to rescue us. Use your head, think.
No apology from me.
I EMPATHIZE with these people for their loss, I imagine how I would ache for my loved one if it were me, but I cannot say that those who take drugs without due caution do not hold at least some responsibility for their choice and the ultimate result.
It all comes down to if I want to say something that will make people think about the possible ramifications of what we do or if I just want to say that if we make bad choices that its somebody else's fault. Someone else may SHARE the blame, but they aren't the ones who stand to lose their life, WE ARE.
Anne Nothing I said was meant as a threat, we have lost loved ones, his suit against my wife and myself was made only to intimidate US. If anything it is out of frustration by this whole situation, I just feel you do not know the true facts here, yes I knew something was not right with my daughter, but she trusted this Dr. because of her injuries she had a hard time making rational decisions, she was in constant pain, she had brain seizures, nothing in this world will ever give me peace and I have very little happiness, she was my only child, but he prescribed ungodly amounts of drugs and denied he did it, he is on video tape denying he did this, after all I have said here, I just see no reason how anyone can defend what he did, I at this point, do not care what you think about this, and I have been physically threatened by some of his patients, I do not know you, you have no idea what these families have gone thru , this whole discussion is getting out of hand, if you have other things to do ,please do them, as far as responsibility, Dr Buckwalter has not accepted any on his part.I have spoken to other families whos loved ones blew their brains out in front of their children, directly related to the treatment provided by Buckwalter. I really do not have anything else to say on this matter. You really just do not get it. Did Mrs Baile have to have her intestines explode because of what he did? Do not Dr's take an oath to do no harm, I guess Buckwalter was not present that day.
Anne Nothing I said was meant as a threat, we have lost loved ones, and truthfully if you have other things to do please , do them . you are not involved in this situation, and your pontificating about liberal, socialist finger pointing is ridiculous, Bottom line is people have died because of him, did Mrs, Baile need to have her intestines explode and die, Did stacy and others have to blow their brains out in front of loved ones because of what he did, he has accepted no responsibility in any of this, his lawsuit was meant to intimidate us, nothing more,I have been physically threatened by his former patients because they could not get their " MEDICINE" , you speak about finding peace and happiness, this will never happen, she was my only child, I really think you are spending way to much time on this, You just do not know all the facts, and it is very frustrating to read what you are saying. Please give it a rest. This is getting out of hand and the real point of all this is getting lost in the B.S. Enough Please !
What part of this do you not understand? As I said earlier:
"One final time - He is guilty BUT so is she."
I said I empathize with you for your loss. You are apparently angry because I won't agree that ONLY the doctor is at fault. I don't know about the original reasons both your loved ones went to this doctor. My statements were about accepting at least SOME measure of personal accountability.
I do not want to argue but I do not want statements or lack of statements attributed to me that are inaccurate/false.
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1) Tom Brady -- Fourth quarter comeback after throwing the late INT. His 38th fourth-quarter comeback. Passed Fran Tarkenton for 4th most TDs (342) in a career.
2) Kenbrell Thompkins -- Game winning catch. Continues to show why the team had faith in keeping an undrafted rookie instead of trading for (or re-signing) veteran wideouts.
3) Patriots' Secondary -- Aqib Talib and Kyle Arrington had an equally impressive outing as they matched up against the Saints wideouts. Alfonzo Dennard (5-foot-10) mistimed a jump allowing Kenny Stills to snag the pass that put the Saints up by one, but came up huge by out-jumping the 6-foot-4 Marques Colston at the pylon to force the Saints to kick the FG late in the game rather than get a TD to put things out of reach.
Coaching (game-planned Saints weapons out of the picture), Fans (those who stayed to see the final drive), 98.5 Radio Call (Scott Zolak), Kyle Arrington, Julian Edelman (Took a huge hit on final drive and amazingly held onto the ball), Stevan Ridley (2 TDs), Stephen Gostkowski (54-yd FG), Michael Hoomanawanui (Gronk who?), Austin Collie (2 huge catches on final drive).
1) Injury Bug -- Danny Amendola, Jerod Mayo, Talib, Dan Connolly
2) Jimmy Graham -- no catches? Graham had three (or more) passes in his hands that he allowed a defender to smack out of his possession to negate a big play. One was Talib over the middle on a crucial Saints drive, another was Arrington who punched it out at the goal line.
3) Dropsies -- New England receivers continued to drop catchable balls, putting the team in desperate straits. Aaron Dobson's drop on fourth down with the Patriots going for it from inside their own 30 was especially hurtful.
Fans (Those who left early), Pregame power rankings (The ones that said the Patriots are done), Rob Gronkowski (for being a distraction on game day despite not playing)
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Photo Credit: Kenneth Yee, painter
First, today is quite a milestone for My Morning Chocolate – this is the 100th post! I'm sending out a big thanks to you for reading this blog at any point over the last nine months. One of the things we bloggers live for is our blog's stats – you want to know that you're talking to someone out there, after all – and the increasing views have been a great push to keep me going. So thank you!
I've been aware of my approaching 100th post for a while, and, thus, have had plenty of time to plan what to write for the big day. When I was in my mid-20s, I wanted to open a bakery. and I spent a lot of time researching how to do that. This led me a website where a commenter said a good bakery absolutely had to have a good pain au chocolat. This was just one person's two cents, but the yeast was planted in my baking brain: I would make pain au chocolat someday.
So I finally made them, spending the whole day rolling, resting, refrigerating, filling, and rolling the dough. My pain au chocolat were on the small side, but I don't think I've ever felt more proud of myself!
To make your own, print Jacques Torres' pain au chocolat recipe, read it, and then follow along with this photo essay (of sorts) that will take you through the process.
Pain Au Chocolat
Make the dough according to the recipe's instructions. I couldn't find fresh yeast – even the bread maker at my farmers market wasn't sure where he bought it – so I substituted 6 3/4 tsp dry yeast. That's a strip of three yeast packets, which is sold in most grocery stores. Your yeast will sit in cold water and, when it's ready, will be bubbly like this:
After you mix your dough, it will look like this:
First Roll
After your dough rests in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, it is ready for its first roll. You'll notice that the recipe says you should roll the dough into an 8 by 15-inch rectangle about 1/4 inch thick. Although I did use a long meter stick, my dough was rounded, too short, and too long in some spots. I wouldn't worry to much about it. You aren't selling these to anyone. Once rolled, wrap your dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Spread the Butter
Pain au chocolat contains a ton of butter, of course. 1 cup plus 2 tbsp to be exact. But I never realized how much this really is until I hit this stage and spread the softened butter on the dough. I think my arteries closed a little just looking at all that butter. Spread it on 2/3 of your dough and you'll see.
Fold the Dough and Roll It Out Again
Now you will fold the dough like a letter, and then roll it out again into a 10 by 30-inch rectangle. The danger here is that your butter might start melting before you can finish rolling out the dough. When this happened to me, I put the dough back in the refrigerator for a while and then re-rolled it. Once rolled, fold each end of the dough to the center (but do not overlap them), then fold the dough in half and wrap it in plastic wrap to refrigerate for at least 2 hours. (Tip for Rolling: Hold the dough firmly on one side, and use your other hand to roll the dough in the opposite direction. I found this helped me roll the dough faster.)
One more rolling/resting stage
After the dough has refrigerated, it will go through one more rolling/refrigeration stage. Roll the dough into another 10 by 30-inch rectangle and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Roll and Cut the Pain Au Chocolat
I know, this is a lot of rolling right? But this is the last one. Roll out your dough one more time. (The recipe says it should be a 10 by 36-inch rectangle about 1/4 inch thick.) Then cut the dough into 3 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch rectangles. Again, try to get as close as you can, but I wouldn't worry if your measurements are slightly off.
Add the Chocolate and Roll Them Up
We've made it to the chocolate stage! Adding the chocolate is a process, so follow along by looking at the middle square in the pictures below:
Rising and Egg Wash
The filled and rolled pain au chocolat will then rest, covered in plastic wrap, for 1 1/2 to 3 hours, until "they appear light and full of air." (I'm not sure mine rose as much as they should have, but I moved forward anyway.) After the rising stage, brush the pain au chocolat with egg wash (see the recipe). Hang in there, the buttery pain au chocolat are almost ready…
Finally, Baking!
Now you can relax because your pastries are home-free. After hours of refrigerating, rolling, rising, filling, and resting, the pain au chocolat only take about 10 minutes to bake. They're ready when they're golden brown. After all this work, the good news is you should have pain au chocolat all week. This recipe makes 20 of them.
Enjoy, and once again, thank you for reading. Your support keeps My Morning Chocolate (and me) going!


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Chocolate Walnut Pavés with Nocino Scented Cream
Created By Joanne Weir - Executive Chef of Copita and host of "Joanne Weir Gets Fresh"
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Pavé, or paving square or stone, is the most deceptive "brownie" you will ever taste. It is flourless and lactose free, not overly sweet and absolutely melt in your mouth.
Chocolate Walnut Pavés
- 1 cup butter, unsalted
- 7 1/2 ounces chocolate, bittersweet
- 7 1/2 ounces chocolate, semisweet
- 6 eggs, separated
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 cup California walnuts, toasted, finely chopped
- Confectioners' sugar
Nocino-Scented Cream
- 1 cup cream, heavy
- 2 to 3 tablespoons nocino or walnut liqueur
- 1 tablespoon sugar, powdered
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Butter the sides and the bottom of a 9-inch x 13-inch baking pan. Line the bottom with baking parchment and flour the pan lightly.
- Melt the butter in a large heavy saucepan. Chop the chocolate coarsely and add it to the butter. Stir constantly over low heat until just melted and smooth; be careful not to overheat or the chocolate will turn grainy. It should not get much hotter than 115°F.
- Separate the eggs. eat the yolks with approximately half of the sugar until light and creamy. Beat the chocolate/butter mixture into the sugar/yolks.
- Warm the egg whites slightly by swirling them in a bowl above a gas flame or over hot water. Beat to a stiff peak and add the rest of the sugar. Continue to beat to incorporate the sugar completely but without deflating the whites.
- Spread the egg whites and walnuts over the chocolate mixture and fold them together with the fewest strokes possible without deflating the whites.
- Pour into prepared pan and bake until it has risen around the edges and a skewer comes out with just a couple of crumbs on it, 30 to 35 minutes.
- Turn it out of the pan onto a rack while it is still warm. Remove the parchment while it is still warm. Turn it over, trim the edges and cut into squares.
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Managerial steps to speeding up payment recovery procedures and benefit from the above provisions
Startups and early stage businesses can take certain steps to ensure that their payment recovery process is streamlined with reduced delays:
- Although registration is discretionary, it is strongly advisable that MSMEs obtain a registration under the MSMED Act under the appropriate category (depending on investment in their equipment, or plant and machinery). All official communications, bills (whether in electronic form or hard copy form with customers/ buyers should state (by way of an email signature or on the letterhead) that the entity is registered under the act. A recent notification by the Government mentions that the EM Number allotted by the appropriate authority should also be mentioned. This notifies the recipient that it is dealing with a registered entity and prevents it from later on taking the argument that it was not aware of the status of the MSME.
- Invoices issued to suppliers should, in addition to mentioning the registration, also state the terms of payment, and the consequences of delayed payment in terms of the MSMED Act.
Benefit #3 – Advantage with respect to government contracts
The government is the largest spender in the economy, and any startup or SME can significantly benefit with respect to both its revenues and market positioning if it has a government entity as a client. The government follows an elaborate process for purchasing products or services from private market players – how can startups or SMEs ensure that they can compete with powerful corporate giants?
In March 2012, the Central Government released a policy (SME Procurement Policy) stating that it would reserve a minimum of 20 percent of its procurement requirements from micro and small enterprises registered under the MSMED Act (see module 4 for more details). The reservation requirement will be mandatorily applicable to all Central Government ministries, departments and public sector undertakings controlled by it (collectively referred to as the Central Government Entities) from 1st April, 2015, but Government departments have already started making arrangements to source from SMEs.
Mechanism for fulfilling the reserved quota: Usually, a contract is awarded to the bidder who is willing to perform it at the lowest price (provided he meets the technical criteria). This is known as the L1 price. Other bids which satisfy the technical criteria but are priced higher than the L1 price are rejected. However, a bid submitted by a micro or small enterprise may not necessarily be the lowest in terms of price – how should the government procure the reserved component of products and services from the SME in that case?
The SME Procurement Policy provides a special benefit to eligible enterprises. Micro and small enterprises which meet requisite technical criteria, but whose bids are priced at up to 15 per cent higher than the lowest bidder will not lose the tender. They will be given another opportunity – if they can match the L1 price, they can be selected to supply up to 20 percent of the amount sought to be procured. Does this prejudice the L1 bidder? No, this probably does not make a significant difference, since the winner will still be eligible to supply the balance 80 percent requirement. The order size will reduce by 20 percent.
In addition, there are already 358 items (listed in the Appendix to the SME Procurement Policy) which must be exclusively purchased from micro and small enterprises by Central Government Entities as of date (uploaded on LMS).
See notification dated 27 November 2012 available at http://www.dcmsme.gov.in/publications/act%2030.11.2012.pdf
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Chemical watchdog: Syria declared 41 facilitiesBy EDITH M. LEDERER , Associated Press
Oct. 28, 2013 8:21 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The chief of the global chemical weapons watchdog says Syria has declared 41 facilities at 23 chemical sites where it stored approximately 1,300 tons of chemical precursors and agents and 1,230 unfilled munitions.
Ahmet Uzumcu said in his first report to the Security Council, obtained Monday by The Associated Press, that inspectors overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile had corroborated information provided by Syria at 37 of the 41 facilities.
But the chemical watchdog said inspectors couldn't visit two sites because of security risks, which meant an Oct. 27 deadline to visit all declared sites was missed.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said inspectors are expected to meet a Nov. 1 deadline to destroy Syria's capacity to produce chemical weapons — except possibly at those two sites.
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Who Really Wrote "The Monster"?
Perhaps the biggest hit of 2014 thus far has been neurotically dark collaboration between Eminem and Rihanna "The Monster." Perceived as a pseudo-sequel to their first two duets "Love the Way You Lie" and "Love the Way You Lie (Part 2)," "The Monster" is a disturbing and somewhat uncomfortable look into the mirror, and not exactly loving what you see. After the original "Love the Way You Lie" became a hit I found that the hook had actually been written by Skylar Gray before she broke big. I was also surprised to find out that another Rihanna hit, "Diamonds," was penned by a pre-famous Sia (think "Titanium"). After doing a little bit of homework, I found out that Rihanna's part on "The Monster" was also written by another KISS-FM artist who was just about to get her big break! Check this out!
Cash Cash is experiencing some success right now with the song "Take Me Home." Much like David Guetta or Calvin Harris, Cash Cash is NOT the vocalist on the track, just the producer. The VOCALIST on the song is a chick named BeBe Rexha. She was part of a Pete Wentz (of Fall Out Boy) side-project called Black Cards before going solo in 2012. She was going through a tough time in the music industry and had just been dropped by her label, Island Def Jam. Dealing with frustration and depression, Rexha found herself in a Harlem Recording Studio in a "dark place" both figuratively and literally. She wrote a song called "Monster Under My Bed," and it sounded like this:
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She claims that the moment she wrote it, she knew Eminem would be performing it. The producer of the track, Frequency – who would go on to produce "The Monster" – got the track to the Director of A&R for Shady Records, Riggs Morales, who also loved the track. He got it to Eminem while he was working on his historic Marshall Mathers LP II. Eminem wrote verses around the hook, and then gave the hook to Rihanna. When all the vocals were finalized, it turned into "The Monster" that we've heard a million times now.
And that's the story behind how "The Monster" was written… Here is what Eminem and Rihanna did with the song:
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Steve Carell, Allison Janney, Kiefer Sutherland, and other stars landed a nomination at the 2006 Emmy Awards.
As the celebration of this year's Emmy Awards draws near, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has officially announced on Thursday, July 6 the nominees for the prime time entertainment. Choosing those for the Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series category, the organization has picked up names like Steve Carell, Tony Shalhoub, and Charlie Sheen in the list besides placing Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Krause, also Denis Leary together to compete for the title of Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series.
In the female's side, Stockard Channing, Debra Messing, and Lisa Kudrow will be up for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series category while Allison Janney, Kyra Sedgwick, plus Geena Davis have been lined up for that in drama series. As for another in miniseries/ TV-movie category, there has popped up notable names of Gillian Anderson, Kathy Bates, Judy Davis, Helen Mirren, and Annette Bening altogether.
For the features, TNT's miniseries "Into the West" has surprisingly come out as the top nominated program with 16 nominations, including Outstanding Miniseries category in which it joins "Bleak House", "Elizabeth I", and "Sleeper Cell", followed by "24" with 12 nods. The suspense drama series itself will face up against "House", "The Sopranos", and "The West Wing" in the category of Outstanding Drama Series. For the complete list of nominations, please go to Emmys.Org
Taking place at famed Shrine Auditorium, the 58th annual Emmy Awards are slated to be aired live on August 27 through NBC with Conan O'Brien as the host. Traditionally held in September, the event has been moved up this year to accommodate the network's coverage of Sunday Night NFL Football beginning in the month.


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Melbourne's old Telstra building sat dormant on the skyline for more than 20 years, blending into the background.
But Min Wang saw potential in residential conversion of the William Street tower, one of the country's first concrete reinforced buildings.
Ms Wang chose the property in Melbourne's legal district as the first foray into the Australian market for her Chinese-backed company, Hengyi Australia.
Hengyi paid $45 million cash for the high-ceilinged building. Its redevelopment is a $200 million project.
Ms Wang admits the project was a gamble. "It was a risk, but it has paid off,'' she said.
In a flat market, The William has sold more than half of its 555 apartments.
The Melbourne market has been depressed compared with the boom times of 2010. But Ms Wang said she preferred that city to Sydney and the timing fitted well with other international projects.
Hengyi's balance sheet has afforded her the opportunity to choose a site based as much on feel and personal preference than on economic credentials.
Australian developers have struggled to secure finance in recent years and are reliant on locking in adequate pre-sales before banks will lend to them. Ms Wang said, while the approach was understandable, it was conservative.
"The Australian property market is more mature than China's, its laws are clearer, its business dealings simple and direct,'' she said.
Hengyi Australia reportedly made a $2000 campaign donation to City of Melbourne candidate Gary Singer. The company has taken an interest in the evolution of the CBD and Ms Wang said it appeared the western precinct was emerging as a new centre, particularly when taking Docklands into account.
Finding a Melbourne location was the first and easiest step. Ms Wang was keen to find a site among the elevated blocks in Melbourne's legal district. She has worked through 10 project redesigns with Bruce Henderson Architects to finalise her vision for the tower, which also includes retail and office space.
"Being a residential development among commercial and office space, The William will change the culture, it will change the landscape,'' she said.
The Hengyi brand stems from parent company Shandong HYI, a large private development group based in China's Shandong provence.
Ms Wang and her husband started in property development more than 20 years ago, after Ms Wang began her career in steel production.
Completed projects include Brighton Park, a $700 million commercial and residential project in Weifang City and a $1 billion retail shopping precinct development, also in Weifang City.
The company has financing interests in China and mining and utilities interests in the US and Canada.
Its diversified interests have acted as a buffer against global economic tides. Ms Wang said she had a deliberate policy of optimism and calm through property market downturns.
"Hengyi is quite relaxed and calm, we've seen good and bad times, and success is how you position yourself– there is always a market.
"We stay relaxed about it and manage our cash flow," she said.
Ms Wang said she was philosophical in her approach and while you could never pick the bottom of a market or the best time to get in, you could determine the best timing for your own interests.
"I have travelled a lot, and seen a lot of other cities, but there was something more relaxed about Melbourne and I felt so easily connected to it,'' she said.
"I once had a dream about a place . . . I felt connected to it when I came here, like I could have a home here."
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cant get my intel pro wireless 3945 A/B/G card to work with bt4 prefinal in wmware.. some help please?
(Hello, thats my 1st post here)
Just to confirm that the following cards work out of the box with bt-4 (pre)
Alfa 500mW (AWUS036H) (rtl8187)
Works perfect, injecting works
Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (my hp pavilions on board card)
Works very well, injecting works
(TP-LINK) TL-WN422G (ZyDAS WLA-54L) (zd1211rw)
Didnt work on BT-4 beta, now works out of the box, injecting works
cant get my intel pro wireless 3945 A/B/G card to work with bt4 prefinal in wmware.. some help please?
how can i solve the problem with ipw3945.
inject don't work and i don't capture a wpa/wpa2 handshake
pls help
Sorry, I (re)read the review on Dedoimedo and I got the hint:
/etc/init.d/networking start
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Wired and wireless (Intel 3945) work fine.
Re-tested today my ipw 3945abg on bt4 pre-final.
It does work for me out of the box, injection also works very well.
I run bt-4 pre final on a usb stick created with unetbootin
guys i have the same chipset on my laptop acer2920 and all it does is pick up why is it picking up and no data packets does it not have the compatablity to inject or something and beacuse bt3 is knoppix distro and bt4 debian ias that why and if anybody has had the chipset on bt4 could let they let me know how they get on beacuse i have not yet downloaded bt4 as i hear there is not much difference in them but a few new tools and layout kinda thing but i will if i thought that i could get the chipset working on bt4 rather than 3


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The "insightful and dedicated" professors are almost always available to answer questions or concerns, and "want their students to pass their class with as much knowledge as possible." Because of the small class sizes ("I have one class with seven students," reports an actuarial science major), students are able to have one-on-one discussions with their professors. Most professors at Bellarmine "even provide their personal cell phones to students on their syllabi." This access to professors "really [establishes] an ability to grow closer to future employers and be willing to open up with them about issues, concerns, or ideas." Material is often taught through real world applications, and many teachers will even "help you find internships and jobs." Though students admit that some adjunct professors can be below par, "Bellarmine takes their course evaluations pretty seriously and assesses the situation quickly."
On campus, most people "hang around Cafe Ogle in between classes, sipping on coffee and working on their laptops." Bellarmine's men's basketball team draws huge crowds, and the school has "a niche, club or activity for everyone" (and "encourages and supports any club a student would like to create"). There are also events like "Late Knight Bingo, which is a huge Bingo party where students can win really awesome prizes," Homecoming, and "Ball on the Belle (a Halloween dance on the [steamboat] Belle of Louisville)." The campus itself is both beautiful and "small enough to be easily traversed if you only have 10 minutes between classes and need to be across campus."
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Amateur detectives in Bovingdon will have the chance to pit their wits against Sherlock Holmes at a "murder mystery evening" next week.
The Bovingdon Players will be putting on "Aint You Got No 'Holmes' To Go To" at Bovingdon Memorial Hall, High Street on Friday and Saturday.
Audience members are invited to try and solve the murder of Lord Winchester Longshot while Robert Peacock, as Sherlock Holmes, will be doing the same.
Roddy Shand will be playing Dr Watson in the show and he will be interacting with the audience throughout the performance - highlighting important clues and indicating what is going to happen next.
Iain King, director of "Aint You Got No 'Holmes' To Go To" explained that the audience will watch Sherlock Holmes quizzing all the suspects and each table will then be asked to say how they think Lord Longshot was killed.
He said: "At the end of everything, all the tables basically say who they think did it, how they did it and what their motivations were.
"Then we will play out the final scene and see who the murderer was and the team who is closest will win the prize."
During rehearsals, one of the actresses was diagnosed with pneumonia and the Bovingdon Players had to find another actress during production.
Mr King said: "We are all quite close - she is a good friend of ours so it was very upsetting.
"Luckily, she is on the mend now, so it is all turning bright in the end."
The event at Bovingdon Memorial Hall will see enough space for more than 80 people and villagers are allowed to bring a picnic dinner.
Organisers said that, so far, three quarters of the tickets have been sold for Saturday night and half of the tickets for the Friday event were now booked.
Mr King explained that the amateur theatre group had not produced a murder mystery evening in a long time and said that now was the right time-before the World Cup.
He added:"We have not done one for a few years so we decided it was about time we re-started it.
"We wanted to do it before the World Cup started because it is very hard to get people out of the house once the World Cup has started."


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Pacific police identified the man who was struck and killed by an Amtrak passenger train Wednesday night as Zachary T. Brady, 20.
Police reported that Brady was walking on the tracks east of Fourth Street shortly before 9 p.m. when he was struck by the eastbound train heading to St. Louis from Kansas City.
According to reports, the man was returning from his job at a fast-food restaurant when the accident occurred about 8:50 p.m., police said.
The train, which was scheduled to arrive in St. Louis at 9:40 p.m., was delayed about two hours as police investigated the incident.
The victim's body was taken to the St. Louis County Morgue by the medical examiner's office, according to Police Chief Matt Mansell.
Mansell said the victim lived three blocks from the scene of the accident.
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Just moved into third apt in irving Texas
furthest ive been from downtown dallas.
Im a pretty awesome cook and musician.
Being trippy semi intellectual semi spiritual.
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Brave new world
Jung freud Psych books in general
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Dark poeish related books and poetry.
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I dont watch tv generally , but if anything atm it would be the universe with sagan and futurama. Im a Fry.
I have a soundcloud and dj and play the drums and guitar.
I didn't think i was supposed to put what music i liked. Well if you ask me if i like a band ive probably already seen them live at a show or festival, if that answers that. Im a music junkie.
Sushi, asian, tea,organic/fresh/healthy foods/salads/ fish, white meat, choclate, pocky.
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reading a book at my apt with my cats
Making music or art or working out/swimming.
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The actress helps detailing the process of rabbit slaughters in France and China, the two countries from which top fashion designer Giorgio Armani bought rabbit fur for his design.
An active supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Gillian Anderson lends her voice to narrate the animal rights organization's undercover investigation video exposing the cruelty of rabbit slaughter in China and France, two countries from which top fashion designers, like Giorgio Armani just to name one, bought rabbit fur for their fashion line. The rabbit slaughter done in both countries uses quite different methods, but displays most likely the same animal cruelty.
In France, as featured in the video, rabbits are killed with electrical device, their necks are then slit before they are hung up side down. The animals are conscious during the slaughter. In China, there are 2000 rabbits killed each day. The furry animals are placed in tiny cages before being slaughtered. Workers at Chinese rabbit farm forcefully pull the animals out of cages by their ears and shoot them in the head with captive-bolt guns. The workers often shoot the screaming rabbits multiple times. Most of them can be seen twitching and shaking, with their eyes wide open, before they die.
The undercover investigation video of rabbit slaughter in China and France can be watched after this news.
Armani previously was quoted as promising not to use fur for his fashion design, saying "I spoke with the people from PETA, and they showed me some materials that convinced me not to use fur." Much contrary to his vows, he uses rabbit fur for babies and children's coats.
Taking aim at Armani, PETA Europe even released a picture of him with longer nose, depicting the one belongs to cartoon icon Pinocchio. The snap can be seen below.


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Eco-friendly, organic products allow you to make better selections for you and your global family. As a national and international community, it appears we've lost sight of taking care of our selves and our planet. Edinburg organic products are created (or cultivated) with just this issue in mind. They promote a healthy lifestyle and environmental responsibility in Edinburg, TX.
What is Organic?
Organic products contain almost no or no artificial elements. In the instance of food, the USDA allows food products which contain 95-100% certified organic ingredients to be deemed as "organic." Take note – natural and organic aren't interchangeable.
Why Purchase Organic Products in Edinburg, What Are the Benefits?
Our worldwide environment. Organic cleaning products are super earth-friendly because they contain no toxic chemicals. Regular household cleaning items contain various chemical compounds that can poison our air and water. Due to this, they are not easily (and very rarely, properly) disposed of and can create a bigger mess than they were intended to clean. Green cleaning products have little to no toxicity and are biodegradable. Organic agriculture practices help the soil and Edinburg environment and may decrease the impact of global warming. Additionally organic methods are efficient and economically competitive.
Your health. You can be certain if it's harmful to the earth, it's unhealthy for your body. Many conventional food products are steeped in harmful pesticides and fertilizers that take a toll on the human body. The same is true for everyday cleaning and beauty products too. Non-organic products can bring about a host of health problems including cancer, abnormalities, and respiratory problems. Their organic alternatives will not pose such health problems or potential allergic reactions.
Peace of mind. Though it's not across the board, the vast majority of organic products are sold and created according to conscious and ethical guidelines. Environmentally friendly, fair-trade, natural and recycled materials comprise most of what's in organic products.
What Types of Organic Products Are Available in Edinburg, TX?
Usually, if it exists, it exists in organic form. Some products are more readily found in Edinburg than others. The web is a great (and your best) resource and there are numerous large retailers that specifically sell organic and eco-friendly products. Here are some of the more popular and readily available organic products in Edinburg, Texas:
- Liquid soap
- All-purpose cleaners
- Jewelry
- Clothing (t-shirts, pants, footwear, etc.)
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- Furniture
- Vitamins and natural health treatments