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First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.

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  • May 17th, 2016
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  • May 17th, 2016
    Someone from Summerville, SC writes:
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    I too have Fibromylagia, PSTD, anxiety, depression , curved shined, arthritis in back, bulging discs. I have already had my meds brought to a level that barely touches the pain. Now I am moving to a different state! I spent the whole day on the phone just trying to get a primary care dr to no avail. They are not taking anyone new. I am a 58 yr old woman who has suffered this for almost 30 yrs. did I mention migraines too? I don't want cannbus, I have enough going on. I have to drive myself to the Drs, shopping, and soon I don't see that happening!
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  • May 17th, 2016
    Someone from Tucson, AZ writes:
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    I'm 30 years old. I've been drunk maybe twice my entire life, and had anything to drink at all literally no more than a dozen. I've tried pot twice in my teenage years, but it was one puff both times, and it literally made me sick that I was betraying myself, my morals, and my family. I've always been honest about everything with my doctors. I have 17 major problems in my back, and need two whole knee replacements, as well as repairs to multiple tears. This doesn't even include the pain from daily migraines, shoulders that pop out on a weekly basis, that I can't lift without aid above my head, tennis elbow in both elbows, both osteoarthritis and r.a. in every joint, but especially in my hands, multiple spurs, fluid buildup causing pressure in my spine and brain, and more. The pain I'm in is so bad that even with the daily amount of pain meds (oxycodone 25mg a day!!) I have to take all at once if I'm doing anything productive like clean, or cook, or go to docs, ect. I don't date, I don't hang out with friends, I don't do anything but go to doctors or go to my mothers. It's so bad that suicide has been a major consideration for the past four or five years. All of my problems are well documented. I've never had any slight chance of being addicted. In fact every month, I go one day (planned ahead bc I can't get out of bed bc of the pain, and need help just to go to the bathroom) or two without pain meds so not only am I making sure there's no dependantcy but, I'm also making the medication I'm on work better for the next month. I've said from day one that I wasn't on enough, I know my body well. I have to have 12 numbing injections at the dentist to numb my mouth, and it still hurts a little bit. I woke up, at 8 years old (never had a pain med in my life at that point) in the middle of my appendectomy after they had already given me twice the adult dosage of medication bc my mom warned them that our family needed stronger medication ( I think it's the Irish in me or something). They were shocked that I could wake up. I was so awake I sat up and saw myself ope , my appendix on the table next to me, and tried to take off the mask. And, after, they gave me the medication to make a person forget surgery and, I remember it with perfect clarity. I'm sick of being treated this way. I've never lied about my medication, ever. I've never had a problem except that the dose wasn't strong enough. Before medication, an ambulance woukd have to get me, take me to the e.r. to either get pain meds or to get an injection just so I actually could go to my doctors appts. I couldn't even get out of bed except with help to go to the bathroom only. I gained 25lbs being completely immobile. I will literally kill myself before I go through that again. And the doctors know that. But they're all residents being overseen by a teaching doctor. So, they're literally being indoctrinated into not only believing it's better I kill myself, less "drug seekers"
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  • May 17th, 2016
    Someone from Marion, IA writes:
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    I have been fighting chronic pain due to Chiari Malformation, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Occipital Neuralgia, Myofacial Neuralgia, as well as severe depression and anxiety, IBS-D, I also have several other conditions that are not pain or medication related. I was going to a pain management doctor who prescribed Percocet for me and I never took more than prescribed nor did I ever feel any "euphoria" when I took them. I received 90 pills per month. Then new laws started and I had to sign a contract, random drug testing and all the sudden my doctor refused to refill the prescription. I was not tapered off an opioid I had been on for 3 years. Since then my pain has caused my depression to become so bad some days I can't function, I have planned my own death more times than I can count because I can't deal with the pain. My Pain management doctor cut me loose because she knows that there are no treatments other than opioids to control my pain. I've tried them all and still do many of them to help myself! I am allowed 15 total Lortab pills per month! Because of YOUR laws, I would like to see any one of you live for one week in the pain I do with no pain control, that's what these laws are doing to all of us. Doctors are scared to prescribe the medication they know we need, pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions because the are scared of being put in prison! It's time for government to get out of the doctors office!
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  • May 16th, 2016
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from Bradenton, FL writes:
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    I am a 38 year old mother of three, one of which is my autistic son, and two two year Olds that I sit for everyday. You can imagine how busy my days are. My pain started in my twenties when I was diagnosed with Grave's disease. I had to have my thyroid killed off with radiation. At my sickest I lost 80 pounds within literally a few months, my teeth started rotting and falling out, everyone of my joints ached excruciatingly. Not once did I ever seek any kind of pain relief until I fell down the stairs at my apartment at the time. I injured my neck and back, still not once did I seek any kind of pain relief. I suffered like this until two babies later. Yeah, imagine carrying a child while in the worst pain of your life. After my two youngest were born, I still chugged along. Suffering. Until I fell in my kitchen and landed legs up on my tail bone. I was convinced I had broken my cocyx. I didn't but now the pain I was already in became too unbearable to just chug along anymore so I went to see my regular MD to see what could be done. I had x-rays and mri's. I was given every drug under the sun. I figured that this was it. I was destined to be in pain forever. Depression set in and then my MD referred me to the first of many pain mg Dr's. I went through the anti-inflammatories, which didn't do much, the shots, which for the cost aren't worth the money to me. Then I was prescribed hydrocodone/apap and it took my mind off of the pain enough so I could live a little. Here I am a little over ten years later and at my third pain mg dr. I was on morphine er and ir for the b/t for almost ten years. Then my insurance company decides to remove all er pain meds from their formulary. So now I can either just take the ir's or spend the ridiculous amount for the er's. So basically choose between feeding my children or get a little pain relief. Well, needless to say, I dropped my er script and just stayed with the few ir's that the pharmacy will allow me to fill. My Dr changed me from morphine to oxycodone to see if it would work a little better because we are given very few options now. After driving around and getting the door slammed in my face, I'm faced with going back to what's not working anymore because of the "new rules" for how many of this or that that a pharmacy can order or carry. So basically if you aren't lucky enough to get to the pharmacy at just the right time, you're screwed. So, the lucky few can get filled and f*ck the rest of us. I was in tears today trying to figure out what to do. And also now that the pharmacies have this 29 day policy, this leaves us having to make multiple trips to drs, then the pharmacy, if not 20 or 30 pharmacies. Every month it's one more day further from my appt that I can get my script filled. These new policies that ate being implemented are not stopping abuse but abusing the sufferers. I guess I just need to go "score" some smack. Which since the mess the DEA has made and refuses to fix, is coming back in a b
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  • May 16th, 2016
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from Vernon Rockville, CT writes:
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    I was just told today that my doctor, in order to comply with this new edict from congress to reduce patients medication, was taking me off one third of my pain medication! I have been on this medication since 2007. I certainly didn't ask for this pain, and I don't even fully understand why I have it. It is called central pain syndrome and I'm told it originates in the brain. I'm fully convinced that this is the worst pain known to man. My bones hurt. My muscles hurt, My skin hurts. I have peripheral neuropathy of all four extremities. It is quite severe. I also have post polio syndrome and sometimes the muscle fatigue hurts so bad I collapse in a heap. I have broken my wrist, my foot and multiple ribs from falling. My legs can hurt so badly that I can't walk at times. The pain of just putting pressure on my feet is unbearable. My muscles feel like they are tearing and twisting. All my joints ache and ache all the time. My knees give out on me from the pain, and, again, I fall. My spine hurts from top to bottom as well as the supporting muscles. I get such spasms sometimes that you would think I have epilepsy the way my arms swing out of control. My skin burns like its on fire. I can't even stand to touch my own legs or arms. That is how much I hurt. My skin hurts and the muscles underneath hurt. When I am off my medication, or have missed a few doses because I have been too sick to get out of bed say when I get my blinding migraines, then my internal trunk burns. The are between my pelvis and my shoulders. It burns, like its on fire on the inside of me. Its like I'm a big furnace of pain. The pain has attributes of pulling, tearing, pounding in the bones, deep pain in the bones with the pounding. And the pain inside me means I am one blob of pain. Everywhere. When doctors ask me what hurts I say everything. I don't think they know what to make of that. But the truth is this: everything does hurt.I was told in my 40s that I have advanced arthritis. It explained a lot at the time. I've already had knee surgery, (not a knee replacement), a total hip replacement, and a bone removed out of my left hand all due to arthritis. I'm now in my 60s I can't live with this pain. If I am told I can no longer receive meds or it gets to the point where the pain is too much, I already have plans to commit suicide. There is no way anyone, I don't care how tough you think you are, no one can withstand this type of pain. I'm not some 20 year old kid that is looking to get high. In fact, in the nearly ten years I've been on morphine, I have never once felt the euphoria that I hear is supposed to be associated with opiate use. I've never once taken extra pills. I take it exactly as its ordered by my doctor. Now I'm going to immediately go back to being in awful pain. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm so scared. Nothing scares me more than the potential my body has for pain. Having medication has been the biggest bless
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from Manteca, CA writes:
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    If the government continues on this course they will force law-abiding citizens to take to the streets to buy drugs which are likely unsafe. These people, who suffer daily with chronic pain, are only trying to find enough relief to get through their day. What would we have them do? I am a Registered Nurse, we finally got doctors and hospitals to recognize our patients pain and for the past many years we have viewed pain as the 5th vital sign, accessing our patient's pain every 4 hours as we do their blood pressure, temp, etc. How can we be taking such giant leaps backward? Every human being has a right to pain control! No one else has a right to judge another's pain. Take away these peoples grasp on having a some what normal life by taking away their pain medication and you will be asking for them to commit one of the only two crimes you leave them with, to buy street drugs such as heroin or to commit suicide so as to end their suffering. Do any of these options make more sense? These people ARE NOT CRIMINALS!!!
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  • May 16th, 2016
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from Jamestown, NY writes:
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    No patient who has Severe Chronic Pain should have to be turned away from any Dr. and it's inhumane to do so. Especially when a patient has been on meds for years and then a crisis occurs and the patients who have this Severe Chronic Pain can suddenly no longer get the Pain Meds they've been getting for several years, and they have to suffer with their Chronic Pain/Withdrawals from quitting Cold Turkey/Major Nausea/Sever Pain in their Stomach from the Pain and Not knowing where to turn and unable to concentrate on anything because their Severe Pain/Withdrawals that go along with this. Until you or a Family Member is in Severe Chronic Pain and you or they have no life because of this Constant Pain they live with on a daily basis you have NO Business changing the Medications they take and Need for their Pain. Again, it is INHUMANE AND NO CARING DR. WOULD KEEP THEIR PATIENTS IN SUCH SEVERE PAIN, BUT INSTEAD THEY'D HELP THESE PATIENTS. These people NEVER asked to be in such Severe Pain. They are just trying to live a Productive Life and in order to do so, they MUST often take Medication to help control their Severe Pain. Stop messing with the lives of these patients and their families who suffer right a long with them.
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  • May 16th, 2016
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from Tullahoma, TN writes:
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    11 years with no prob at same pain clinic until I'm having a prob with paying for my visits, so, discharged with no prescriptions. Only doc I can barely afford reads my mri from 8 years ago and acts like it was taken that morning and says no pain meds for me. Shows me a letter saying my amount of meds is dangerous and has the nerve to bring up Primces death which hasn't even been proven yet! The meds he prescribed, well obviously they're making me worse, my depression is now full blown, and I'd rather be dead than all this pain and discomfort. I used to have relatively pain free life. ....
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from Melrose, MA writes:
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    After 10 jaw surgeries which included the cutting of nerves in my face, I am in CONSTANT PAIN. It doesn't take a break or a day off. On a good day with my meds my pain level is still pretty close to a 7 out of 10. I have been known to tell my Amazing Doctor that my pain has been up around 15 on more than one occasion, unfortunately. I am not a drug addict I am a person dealing with pain EVERYDAY. If you have never had pain you won't understand, if you have, I'm sorry for your pain.
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from Exton, PA writes:
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    Stop drug abuse but have compassion to those in chronic pain. What we need is research for pain and alternatives. Addiction is generally not from chronic pain patients but from others who get them from their elderly family members or illegally.
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  • May 16th, 2016
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    Someone from Oneida, WI writes:
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    I am suffering from chronic pain resulting from c spine fusions and lumbar fusions both multiple levels and while I am lucky enough to walk I can do little else and suffer extreme pain daily. Every day I thank God and Dr's for what I have but I think the Government is taking away a Dr's ability to treat their patients.
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from Dayton, OH writes:
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    I suffer from Lumbar Spondylosis, my lower spine nerves and sciatic on both legs cause intractable debilitating pain. The pain is not relieved in any position. Now every doctor is scared to help patients. Since when were drug administrations and the medical community decided what and how to care for patients. Not politics or popular vote such as medicinal Marijuana. People can smoke pot, but can not access pain medications. This is a sick joke and you should be ashamed for those suffering due to bad politics. Screw Obama, he snorted his coke and cheated on his wife in the White House. White House used to stand for "We the People.." " Pursuit of happiness..." unless you are in pain. Tbone in Dayton OH still believe in America the free.
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  • May 16th, 2016
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    Someone from Middleport, NY writes:
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    I am not a opiod drug addict .I also take them as prescribed and legit.Use them to make it through the day without to severe of pain because of meds.
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  • May 16th, 2016
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from Greenwood, IN writes:
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    I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2009, two full years after testing began. I was tried on all of the protocol medications for treating Fibromyalgia and learned very quickly that I have horrific psycological reactions (suicide and psychotic break) and could not take these maintenance medications. My physician started me on an opioid regimen whoch was 10 mgs hydrocodone every 4 to 6 hours as needed for pain. This coupled with a muscle relaxer helped me manage my pain tremendously and I rarely took a full does daily. In 2013, Indiana passed the country's most strict opioid law in the governor's fight against opioids. After that I was cut to 15 mgs hydrocodone daily and no more than 60 pills per month. This is the state maximum unless the prescription writer goes through a laundry list of things with the patient....pulling 10 years of records, counseling, signing contracts, random pill counts and urine tests and much more. If the physician missed one of these requirements, he/she loses their license. (The threatening language is written right into the law.) Most physicians are sticking to the 15 MME/60 pills per month policy as they are afraid of losing their practice and their license. Those who do not are just waiting in line for a raid. All of the opioid stats being shared are extremely deceiving, stating 80's of addicts start out on prescription opioids but what ISN'T told to the general public is that 75% of those people start on prescription opioids THAT ARE NOT THEIRS!!!! We pain patients are the ones being put through the ringer. As the addicts simply and easily move on to the next street drug to get high, we are here, abiding by our doctors wishes and suffering, barely able to function day to day. We just want to feel better....we don;t want street drugs!! So we suffer as the addicts get the attention, THEY are important to this country, their health and well being is all that is discussed while chronic pain patients on opioid therapy are being thrown aside. We are seen as addicts, pill seekers and scum by just speaking out on wanting and needing our life saving medications. This needs to stop and the government need to open their eyes and realize YOU ARE NOT DOCTORS and WE ARE NOT ADDICTS. The solution for us is EASY......simply EXEMPT. Exempt those who have been on opioid therapy for years and have shown no signs of drug seeking, doctor shopping etc. Exclude those with Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, catastrophic injuries, MS as those using opioid therapies are having success with their medication. You are making it more difficult than it actually is. Let the doctors do their jobs and allow them to treat their pain patients as they deem fit. My life is falling apart because of your paranoia and your wanting to play doctor. Please see me as a patient and not an addict! Thank you!
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  • May 16th, 2016
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from New Castle, DE writes:
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    I was diagnosed w/lumbar radiculopathy in 2012, but not before an AZ nurse practitioner decided using me as'a test-rat; prescribing me amptytriptyline instead of 15-more Oxycondone 5/325 pills that actually helped the pain; hold me til' longawaited neurologist appt. to find-out what was wrong. Amptytriptyline landed me in hospital's ER w/180-heart-rate, as it was better killing me then helping ease the pain?? Anyway, we fled to Cali, especially w/nurse denying me after-care that hospital clearly advised me; primary Dr's responsible for any addt'l care til' 2wk-follow-up appt, but denied me instead; making me wait 2wks w/chest-pain. Fortunate, finding better Dr. in Cali, who I was cared for w/my disability for 3.5yrs, b4 relocating back to 1st our Arizona house where I was cared for by an internal-medicine Dr. based-on my medical-records, before ultimately being forced back to east-coast due suffering severe hayfever attacks atop disability difficulty that were not ceasing in Arizona. I never knew how bad it was on east-coast. I felt safe, provided I had@.that time 3.5yrs worth of medical-record proof, along w/an MRI. I also felt safe, since I'd been cared for w/pain medication that Dr's couldn't just not toss me out on my face to possibly go into a stroke from sudden cold-turkey withdrawal, cause country I also thought I lived in ensures Dr's help slowly wean their patients when/if they're better/healed, let alone still w/disability in-pain, but no wrong again; silly me. My stepmom referred me to their family Dr, who also oversees care of my own daughter. He kept me on my 15mg Ocycondone until my husband secured employment then medical benefits; soonas he did, Dr. increased me to 20mg Oxycontin [always swore I'd never consume] 3xs day & 10mg Oxycondone; 3xs day for breakthrough pain, as Dr. didn't like IR {instant release & DE law only allows Dr's prescribe 100-CT/monthly, so my Oxycondone 15mg/5xs day, as taken previous 2.5yrs wasn't gonna do it. Beginning Nov. 20, 2015 just b4 Thanksgiving, my husband's then employer, Amazon stopped direct-depositing him a paycheck, which was supposed 2b getting corrected. After 2mos of taking from our bill & xmas monies so he could get to/from work; helping Amazon make money. He contacted Delaware's labor dept. of which has done no better & left him hanging ever since December 2015; just as Amazon did & both are getting away w/it! Anyhow, cause of Amazon's incompetent wage-theft, my husband's medical-insurance, BCBS wad unable collecting their payments, since he was denied a paycheck for working, which not only messed-up being able afford the ER Dr. increased me to, but when called his office from pharmacy, after learning about insurance, asking for his help; prescribing me the 15mgs again until husband & Delaware's labor dept. could get to bottom of Amazon; fixing both paychecks & insurance, instead of acknowledging my call for help to be able afford filling my monthly prescription; ignored me instead. 3-days
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  • May 16th, 2016
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    Someone from Cooperstown, NY writes:
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    There have been studies that show that prescription painkillers work differently on the brains of chronic pain patients & that the risk of addiction for these patients is very very low. As a chronic pain patient myself it is difficult enough to get my medication Due to state laws and the way the Pharmacists and doctors treat you. I can't even schedule a vacation Without checking to see when my medication will need to be filled because I cannot get it filled even one day early due to the state law and the way that the pharmacist is. I have asked if I had my doctor call the pharmacist could i get it filled early, which state law does allow, and the pharmacist refused. I was told by pharmacy that i could take the script with me to have it filled while away but most of the states (ALL the states near me) will not fill an out of state script for controlled substances. I can't even change pharmacies because I've had to sign a medication contract with my doctor And if I do go to another Pharmacy that will void the contract and I will no longer be able to get my medications. We need to do something to protect the rights og chronic pain patients. There should be exceptions to the stricter state controlled substance prescribing laws for those of us who can not function/live without these meds. We should NOT be treated like drug addicts!
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from Fort Mill, SC writes:
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    I have supported chronic neuropathic pain patients as a volunteer, author, webmaster and peer to peer site developer for 20 years. I communicate daily with over 12,000 pain patients and family members in groups on Facebook. These people tell me that restrictive policies on prescription of opioids are driving pain management doctors out of practice and thousands of patients into agony. Most ironic of all, as recently explained in Scientific American by neuroscience journalist Maia Szalavitz , "Opioid Addiction is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause." There is ample evidence that risk of new addiction among patients properly screened for previous drug problems, is on the order of 1%. It is time to put an end to the war on chronic pain patients. We cannot reduce thousands of opioid drug overdose deaths by condemning millions of people to agony.
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  • May 16th, 2016
    Someone from Massillon, OH writes:
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    New drug laws have forced suicides not from drug addiction but realization living with untreated pain is impossible especially for self but family too. All friends spouse an family have grown to resent me and cut me loose My days are over. Totally bedridden due to two crushed vevertebrae, crohn's disease, and R.A. amongst other auto immune conditions. I live in ohio. It feels like Kasichs law is designed to kill people like me to save money. I used to be a fan. I detoxed completly. Had virtually 0 withdrawl effects after 12 yrs of opiod therapy. Also cursed with a natural tolerance not aquired. All is documunted in records and docs wont even look at it. There's plenty more. I dont want to take my life and im sick of being treated like a criminal even when suffering from life theatning complications. So many im lucky to be alive. In retrospect I wish I would have died to avoid this suffering. My pain has cost me my wife and virtually all friends. I cannot even watch tv. I lay in bed all day trying not to scream staring at the wall. Changes needed made but its gone to far and people are dieing. Those numbers are being ignored. There are plenty of other issues that are killing more people than opiod addicts not being treated for pain. Not to mention new laws are creating heroin epidemic there all whining about. Its that or suicide for many.
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