Cruel and unusual punishment toward chronic pain patients
Like every American I was at first Ecstatic to see a crisis of such magnitude being addressed on such a grand scale. After these plans were implemented I seen and felt the full weight of the fine print.
More facilities to accommodate illicit drug addiction is definitely a great start. However, restrictions on the opioid based pain meds that many sufferers, like myself, depend on to do basic personal care, cook for their families, maintain their homes, and simply enable themselves to do more than lie in a bed 24/7 are being unjustly forced on these patients. Leaving many with no quality of life.
Pain management patients are not allowed to take any more than they are prescribed. They are urine tested and their behavior observed every month. They are not allowed to become addicts, as per their contract.
Illicit users don’t have any restrictions. They have no check and balance in place. This would obviously change their status from addicts to patients. The concept of addiction implies that an addict has no boundaries. They will take until there is nothing left to take, then begin the seeking process all over again.
Please consider that pain patients are not addicts. They are being unjustly punished for having chronic pain. Their doctors unjustly being intimidated into not treating their pain as prior to the CDC recommendations. Leaving many with no quality of life and becoming a complete burden to loved ones. Please help to stop this genicide of the pain patients population. When many patients have no relief they will end their suffering with the only option left, SUICIDE.
More facilities to accommodate illicit drug addiction is definitely a great start. However, restrictions on the opioid based pain meds that many sufferers, like myself, depend on to do basic personal care, cook for their families, maintain their homes, and simply enable themselves to do more than lie in a bed 24/7 are being unjustly forced on these patients. Leaving many with no quality of life.
Pain management patients are not allowed to take any more than they are prescribed. They are urine tested and their behavior observed every month. They are not allowed to become addicts, as per their contract.
Illicit users don’t have any restrictions. They have no check and balance in place. This would obviously change their status from addicts to patients. The concept of addiction implies that an addict has no boundaries. They will take until there is nothing left to take, then begin the seeking process all over again.
Please consider that pain patients are not addicts. They are being unjustly punished for having chronic pain. Their doctors unjustly being intimidated into not treating their pain as prior to the CDC recommendations. Leaving many with no quality of life and becoming a complete burden to loved ones. Please help to stop this genicide of the pain patients population. When many patients have no relief they will end their suffering with the only option left, SUICIDE.
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