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F<\/span>or almost all of my life, I have suffered from colitis. This is what you think it is: gut pain accompanied by constipation and diarrhea. This problem hit me in class, on long car trips, and most especially when I was being yelled at by my mother.<\/p>\n

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It hit its worst in the summer of 1966. Anxiety about entering Yale Law School. A struggle by yours truly about girlfriends. I had two choices, both fabulously great women. An acute shortage of money. A job at the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The terribly hot and humid days and nights. I did not have an Air-Conditioned Car. It was a nightmare and daymare.<\/p>\n

One night, my pain was so extreme that I called my family doctor, Stanley Moskovitz, at 3 AM and begged for meds. He answered my call. There was a 24-hour drugstore a few blocks away on Connecticut Avenue, NW. Savior Dr. Moskovitz called in a few ounces of \u201cParegoric.\u201d I took a good swallow, and next thing I knew, the pain had stopped. Not only that, but I was happy.<\/p>\n

Paregoric, an ancient med, had a small amount of tincture of opium in a lot of chalky something.<\/p>\n

My redeemer lived. I was able to sail back into life. I did so well that I graduated as valedictorian of my class.<\/p>\n

Since then, until about five years ago, I had every damned intestinal problem you can have and came out smiling. Thank you, Dr. Moskovitz. I did not become a drug dealer, and I did not crash my poor little Chevy into any brick walls.<\/p>\n

I sometimes had to shell out more money for intestinal meds than I could afford. But I have avoided bankruptcy. I love Paregoric. On my worst digestive days, Paregoric would bring relief.<\/p>\n

That worked to allow me to work as a lawyer, as a speechwriter for two presidents, as a novelist, a nonfiction writer, columnist for the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, for the New York Times<\/em>, as a law teacher, as an expert witness in complex securities litigation, as a father, as a husband, and then latterly, as an actor and as the host of a long running game show that bore my name. And then to bear the death of our son Tommy when he had just passed 32 years of age. That was a killer. A real killer.<\/p>\n

He was an angel of the first degree.<\/p>\n

In all the stages of my life, colitis would rear its ugly head. Paregoric would allow me to keep functioning.<\/p>\n

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Then, more or less out of the blue, about five years ago, the bureaucrats, people who press the buttons that control our serf lives, decided that I needed to suffer quite a lot longer. They stopped allowing the sale of Paregoric.<\/p>\n

The hounds of hell were unleashed upon me. The pain issuing from my intestines was breathtaking. The circumscription of my movements was scary.<\/p>\n

Yes, there are other meds, especially \u201cImodium.\u201d But it does not work well for me. And so I am back in my personal hell once again.<\/p>\n

Now, as I said, there are other meds. But nothing works even close to as well as Paregoric. I am 81 years old. I do not know how much longer I have to live. I do know that I still have in my life the world\u2019s most wonderful wife. She and I have been together since 1966. (Yes, that is not a typo.)<\/p>\n

I have a glorious sister and many wonderful friends. But I live in dread of that cruel pain of colitis. It is the Himmler, the Beria, the hellhound of pains.<\/p>\n

I am a privileged man who gets some sympathy from my Goddess wife. And yet I am endlessly on the run from my own intestines.<\/p>\n

WHY???? As far as I can tell, Paregoric is not a dangerous drug. I have never read of anyone dying from overdosing on it, and I know of no other drugs even close to as effective.<\/p>\n

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So, again, why can\u2019t I get it?<\/p>\n

This is part of the slow drip against us old people. I just don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

Please let me have some relief.<\/p>\n

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