First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Beckley, WV writes:
This has really taken what activities I could do away, I have migraines that keep me in a dark room miss my sons sports or even getting out and living, I was jumped in 2004 and suffered blunt force trauma to the head and haven't been the same since I also have coronary artery spasms and the daily pain is unbearable my Dr lost his license for treating pain last July and I haven't turned to street drugs or went to another Dr I have ptsd from years of abuse I was supposed to have a biopsy in August they found Pre cancerous cells and I can't bring myself to have it done where I stay so scared and nervous because I haven't had my meds in almost a year now and my family is hurting due to me not being able to do anything I can't even get out to stores with my heart within a few minutes I'm in tears and so weak this has been a nightmare, the dea are not drs and really need to stop acting like they are it's funny Dr's can't treat me yet drugs are everywhere on the street and the drs from the board of medicine doesn't want people treated for pain but will dope people up like zombies with mental drugs I'm seriously considering moving somewhere where I can get the treatment I need because I live in that I won't live much longer the way it is now -
Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Kenosha, WI signed.
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Cincinnati, OH writes:
I have had MS for almost 14 years. I take medications for horrible nerve pain. I don't always need the pain pills but it is a good option of I need them. Why would you make it harder for my physicians to treat me? Don't you realize having this painful disease is already bad enough? You aren't making it harder for people who illegally obtain the drugs. You're making it harder for people like me, who live within the law and don't seek out pain meds illegally.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Tucson, AZ signed.
Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Kingsport, TN writes:
I have MS, fibromyalgia, raynauds, and chronic fatigue syndrome. It's hard enough to get pain relief now. How dare you Congress..REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Polk City, IA writes:
Allow Doctors to treat patients as they set fit without fear of reprisal from any governing agency. Why go backwards with pain management? There is no reason that patients, like me, should live with chronic pain in this day and age. Reducing the availability of pain medication because of the misuse, is not the answer and is a knee jerk reaction. This won't change anything, except to deny millions of people quality of life, the chance of pain free life.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Bridgeview, IL writes:
I live with daily chronic pain due to Multiple Sclerosis. The daily nerve and muscle pain is awful and they can barely help with the drugs that are available now. Making it harder to get these medications doesn't make it harder on the junkies it makes it harder on those just trying to live their life as normal as they possibly can. This is an injustice to those of us who are doing things the right way. I personally hate that I have to take these medications but I'm left with no other options that work.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Sandy Spring, MD writes:
I'm almost 78 years old and rarely need more than an aspiri. As I look forward to my "declining years" I don't want to envision an ocean of arthritis pain. It is comforting to know my doctor will be able to help me avoid suffering.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Lima, OH signed.
Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Aurora, IL writes:
I have multiple sclerosis for going on 13 years. And I have chronic pain for 8 of those years. Pain medication is only thing that helps keep my pain in check. Some days I need it and some days I Dont. Doctors are here to help us live a normal life. And the patients who abuse the medication are the ones who need to be on something else. not us ! Msers have physical pain and well as nerve pain. We shouldn't be punished for the others who probably shouldn't have been put on pain meds anyway. Living with pain is the hardest thing to do. Especially when you a disabled stay at home mom like me ... How would I be able to take care of my family ??!! Please put into consideration how many lives this will impact in a negative way.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Baraboo, WI signed.
Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Columbus, GA writes:
What about people with chronic conditions? Like MS.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Mentor, OH writes:
Please let our Dr.s treat us as a whole! As a human! People can not live with pain everyday.. Please let us have some kind of quality of life! Not everyone is a junkie or a pill seeker.. We are already screened drug tests, pill counts, having to go monthly! What more do you wAnt from the Drs and us! I never had a choice to be sick at 38, or have to leave my career. Or to crawl down my steps in the morning in pain to get my kids ready for preschool. My pain med gives me alittle quality of life to be able to play with my kids while I can. You take pain meds away? Who is to say we're I will be? Morally and erhiically no one should be denied please help us! The ones that need our meds to function with what ever it is we have. 🙏🏻REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Milwaukee, WI signed.
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Gray Summit, MO writes:
I have Chronic pain all day everyday,(Crohn's Disease, DDD, Fibromyalgia, Polyarthritis to name a few)!! I go to my Dr's and LEGALLY obtain prescription for my pain meds! Why does the government always try to punish law abiding citizens for the crimes of those citizens who break the law? It is not the governments place to come between a Dr and a those they treat! I have had the same Dr's for years, they know ALL of my medical issues! I deserve to be able to live a quality life, we all do! It is not up to the government to decide who needs pain meds or not!! That is the Dr's decision!! I have recently tried to find a Pain Management Dr and cannot find one!! They are all closing their Offices due to the fact that they cannot adequately treat people!!! This needs to stop!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Toledo, OH signed.
Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Oklahoma City, OK writes:
It's not the government's place to tell people that their pain is not important enough to provide adequate medication.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Louisville, KY writes:
People can't live with pain everyday, if u don't have pain u don't know what they go through. I thought doctors were suppose to help their patients.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Roseville, CA signed.
Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Battle Ground, WA writes:
I have been in the construction field for 36 years, I started having back issues in 2000, My MRI scan in 2005 showed severe degenerative disc from l-2/3 down tol-5/1, After living on too many nsaid for years my Dr prescribed duregesic and hydrocodone while I struggled with insurance co. to approve disc replacement (to no avail) I have remained active on the pain meds and still employed as construction mgr. Now the fed gets involved and believes they know more than my good physician.... If the media thinks ptsd is bad just wait until this wave hits the good people working hard and paying taxes. Suicide rates will go through the roof, illegal drug use will sky rocket. Chronic pain is real and very devastating, When you cant escape it even briefly via pain meds what is left.. Drug addicts are and will be drug addicts. Stop treating me as one. Insurance is a scam and the decay of our good society. The FDA and all other fed agencies are the same. They just don't care about the hand that feeds themREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Pearcy, AR writes:
I PERSONALLY HAVE A TERMINAL SPINAL CONDITION AND MY MEDS ARE BEING CUT OFF BECAUSE OF FEDERAL LAWS AND GOVERNMENT PUTTING PRESSURE ON OUR DR'S! SUICIDE RATES WILL SKYROCKET AND ILLEGAL DRUG SALES WILL ALSO! Especially WITH THE ELDERLY! HEY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, U GONNA BUILD PRISONS FOR SENIORS WHO BUY DRUGS OFF THE STREET TO STAY ALIVE!!! YOU ARE PUNISHING US THE REAL PAIN PATIENTS WHO BY THE WAY I HAVE NEVER FAILED A DRUG TEST! YOU ARE FORCING CHRONIC PAIN AND ELDERLY TO THE STREETS FOR RELIEF! AND DEAR GOD HELP US ON THE SUICIDE RATE NOW SINCE WE HAVE NO QUALITY OF LIFE!!! START BUILDING THOSE PRISONS U GENUISES!!!! SIGNED TERMINAL RAGAMUFFIN PER BRENNAN MANNING!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Dayton, OH writes:
It is terrible what is going on now for chronic pain I threw my insurance card in the trash I am just going to let nature take it's course and I have cancerREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Pensacola, FL writes:
Everyone's is jumping up and down about Heroin killing people it's because they are looking for pain control in some cases!!I have NUMEROUS reasons to be on pain meds but even going to a pain management doctor is a joke now,does my well being not mater to you or him or ANYONE??Something has to change before it's too late for me and thousands in my shoes.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Wilmington, NC signed.
Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Columbus, OH writes:
All pain is different and if a person has never suffered from chronic pain, many of which are pharmacists and members of the DEA, you could not possibly understand. Unfortunately suicide is often the alternative used by those who can not get their medications because of the DEA....and those that misused the oxy meds are now the reason there is a growing heroin epidemic. Addicts will always find a way. The only people suffering are those of us that are in REAL PAIN!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Prattville, AL signed.
Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Houlton, ME writes:
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! The only thing keeping me from the pain from a BOTCHED SURGERY FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER BOTCHED SURGERY TO FIX THE BOTCHED SURGERY is hydrocodone I cannot literally move out of bed without it. It KEEPS people like me from committing suicide!!! WHY ARE WE LETTING THEM DO THIS TO US??????? ARE THEY TRYING TO KILL US???? WHY ARE THEY PUNISHING THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THESE PAIN MEDS BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO DON'T NEED THEM ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE OVERDOSING ON IT????? THIS IS PURE MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are we all going to be buying heroin in camden nj??????????REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Kinston, NC writes:
I have RA, Fibro and stage 4 Liver disease..I hurt all the time..all the time. Help us! Or legalize Marijuana!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Bensalem, PA signed.
Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Marble, NC writes:
My fiancƩ has fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, and degenerative disc disease which has caused him to have two back surgeries. Without pain medication, he is literally unable to function at all. He has had to find a new primary physician twice in the past 4 years due to having to move for employment purposes, and it is getting increasingly difficult to find a doctor who will even accept a pain management case due to the government's incessant interference in patient care.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Duncan, OK signed.
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Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Silver Spring, MD writes:
The DEA has gone mad making truly ill people spend hours and sometimes days searching for their medications, as if they weren't suffering enough as is. I traveled all day searching for a place to fill my father's prescription after they removed a whole bone from his leg and a large flap of muscle and skin to rebuild his jaw and face to cure his oral cancer, Leaving him in that pain was a cruelty beyond belief. Please stop this madness.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Gainesville, FL signed.
Mar 16th, 2016Someone from Martinsburg, WV writes:
This is crazy and not right these people have no ****ing clue what they r doing , if they do this the will have more herion dealer's and over dose out here, this is crazy alot of people need their medicine for chronic pain , god forbid if the people who did this dont get chronic pain cause I wish it on them or there parents cause there is nothing like some one being in bad pain , they need to get there head out there*****and stop thisREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2016Someone from Saint Louis, MO writes:
Congress is doing NOTHING to protect chronic pain patients. The new CDC guidelines are utterly absurd; they take a blanket approach to a very complex subject. The vast majority of chronic pain patients use opioids responsibly and as directed and suffer NO adverse effects. Punishing the majority for the failings of the minority is unjust and unacceptable. The next time you go in for surgery and only get a two-day supply of hydrocodone, remember that the CDC and cowardly doctors are responsible for your pain and the pain of your loved ones when they need help.REPORT COMMENTS
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