First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Ardmore, OK signed.
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Duncanville, AL writes:
Taking away our pain medication is the most vicious and cruel act on chronically affected patients that you could do. You are targeting the people that depend on pain medication to be able to vacum and cook and handle daily tasks which you take for granted.Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Matthews, NC signed.
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Katy, TX writes:
This Law is Discriminating & Profiling to chronic pain sufferers. It adds to the cost ($1,200. a year for me) as well as making our lives so much harder and adds an increased sense of stigma. It not only turns a blind eye to human suffering it adds to it by making the inflicted jump through numerous hoops each and every month just to get their Medication. Then puts pain sufferers in database striping us of our privacy and our dignity. Our Politicians that were on board with this law have proven that they do not give a dam about the people just the agenda. Meanwhile the 1% of the Population that was abusing Prescription Drugs has moved on to Heroin or other means to get high. Chronic Pain Suffers are not people who want to "Get High" they are people who are trying to live their lives. People who want to "Get High" will always find way no matter what.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Bristol, TN writes:
Doctors are told that not being able to take anti inflammatory medicines are a sign of addiction! What about the side effects and those? The sudden internal bleeding that may cause death. Or how about the fact those thing make you sick to your stomach. This is nothing more than the government acting like they are Mom an Dad! The government's job is not to tell us how to live our lives. And this is precisely why that is not their job! Because the government decided that we are too stupid to make our own decisions so now Doctors all across the country are refusing to treat their patients. All because the DEA thinks it's their job to tell people how to live one's OWN life! I thought that this is supposed to be America not Russia or China! So stop acting like you own us! Try helping people instead of controlling them! Let the doctors and patients decide what is right for them and keep your government opinion to yourself. The government needs to stay out of our lives and let us lead them as we see fit. It is no one's business but your own how your healthcare is managed. What happened to all the Hippa laws? The DEA should not even have access to our records and what each person takes. But let me guess because it's the DEA they take whatever they want because it's the best thing for us! Stay out of our health care.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Ambler, PA writes:
this is such an abusive new rule in treating chronic pain patients. I cannot imagine life without my pain med. I suffer severe pain all day long and never sleep. I have a chronic pain syndrome and will never get better and since I will be in my 70's before long, why am I being penalized?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Johnson City, TN writes:
I hate the term "Long life drug user." There is a difference between using drugs and taking prescribed medication. I have fibromyalgia that I suffer with because I get prescribed things that make my brain feel weird and interact with my psych meds. And speaking of psych meds, I think they should be included here, or something. I've been prescribed antihistamines and blood pressure medication for anxiety, and when I finally was able to get klonopin, they refuse to increase the dosage after taking it (as prescribed) for almost two years. I'm going to have to be on some sort of medication for the rest of my life and I don't see why it's ok to take stuff that messes with my liver, but not anxiety medication!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Albuquerque, NM writes:
Chronic pain from documented spinal conditions (all of the above) Percolating 10 X 4 day and myriad of others. Finally worked my way to some quality of life. 71 years old. Nothing from pain doc but will see in April and don't know what to expect. Future bleak. I am proud of myself to make it after 26 years of pain experience. Give this retired Navy cpo (21 years ) a break.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Merced, CA writes:
I am young. I am 29. I was dx with multiple sclerosis at 22 and fibromyalgia not long after... within the last yr i have also been diagnosed with advanced artritic disc degeneration disease with hyperkyphosis in my spine. I am prescribed 10/325 percocet which i take a 1 half every 6 hrs.. half of what im aloud. I have no clue what my quality of life would be like without these meds. Ive tried medical marijuana, tylenol, iburpofen, aleve, baclofen, tramadol... none of them worked. Please allow me to have my medicine that i DO NOT abuse... i need these meds for a quality of life... my children deserve to not see their mommy in pain all the time... with these meds i can live life! The 1 life i have.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Clyde, TX writes:
As a person with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis, my primary care physician prescribes Norco 5/325, at my neurologist's request, due to a cough caused by multiple lesions on my spine which are causing a chronic cough. I have been on the same level of medication for 5 years and have not deviated from this amount whatsoever. Given that I'm a paralegal working for a criminal defense attorney, I understand drug addiction. My father also committed suicide while on methamphetamines. So if anyone understands drug addiction, it's me. I'm one of the lucky ones at this point as I don't suffer from debilitating pain and only suffer with an annoying cough that cannot be appeased by anything other than codeine (believe me...I've tried everything under the sun) as well as short term memory, fatigue, difficulties in walking, vision problems, PseudoBulbar Affect (PBA), phantom itching, etc. Causing people with chronic conditions to jump through unnecessary hoops is utterly rediculous. Consideration needs to be given for those who can prove the existence of their chronic illness. I feel sure that if the powers that be were suffering from a chronic disease, they wouldn't be trying to limit the drug(s) that enable some people to have a somewhat normal life.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Blackshear, GA writes:
I am not a drug addict. I don't understand why you would want to take away some relief from a human being who is constantly having disabling pain. The over the counter pain pills do not touch the pain. It is throwing money away. The doctors should not be shamed for trying to help their patients in the only way possible. Please let our only help, the doctors who know about our conditions, be able to prescribe what they think might help their patients. . They know what their patients need. The doctors are the last legal resort to help those who are in chronic pain; and will be for the rest of their lives, If you could just have one day with the pain I have for 24 hours a day, you might have a different opinion. I don't have too many years left to live. I would prefer the time that I have left of my life, to not be in excruciating pain. Please think hard and have some compassion for people that are suffering. Please reconsider your actions.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Buffalo, NY writes:
As a person with multiple sclerosis who has sever chronic pain and already cannot get anything to even take the edge off i find it absolutely disgusting that those who do get treated for their pain are being treated like this. We deserve to be treated like human beings and not addicts. We deserve to be able to get through the day at least a little pain free. We deserve better treatment than what we are given.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Sterling Heights, MI writes:
Not everyone is a drug addict, some of us need the pain medication to be able to live a somewhat normal life. Trust me, if we didn't need it to function on a somewhat normal basis we wouldn't be taking it.REPORT COMMENTS
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