First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Mar 15th, 2016Someone from Doniphan, MO writes:
I suffer from chronic pain. I feel I have been treated like a lab rat with other meds besides narcotics. Get back on the narcotics, another dr takes me off again. Now taking hydrocodone, only 3 a day. Some days are worse than others. I'm urine tested as well. It has been no picnic, believe me -
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Mar 15th, 2016Someone from Shepherdsville, KY writes:
I was hurt in an industrial accident at Ford Mtr Co. Since the 1998 when I was hurt, I was still working full-time earning union benefits. My Pain Mgt doctor decided in 2013 that he no longer would treat as many patients as he had been. Of course as they said last in, last out. I was given a one week notice and refills, no referrals, no nothing! My Family Dr for the last 20 years will not write for any pain meds for any reason! The ER can not help me even with copies of my former pain doctor's original signed letter that clearly outlined his opinion of my need for specific meds to fight my specific injury. Also, no negative drug test results, pill counts within guidelines, all appointments made and kept, financial status with this office -good. What options do I have other than either do illegal drugs or suffer? I guess with all the doctors in my area and 9 miles across the bridge into Indiana has the National Highest Aids/Hiv outbreak due to illegal drug use causing the community to offer free needles those that want to get high but not to law abiding citizens who only beg God all to often to please either take me or take my pain? If you have a tooth ache, go to the dentist for a filling. The dentist offers to fix you right up but without and pain meds now, how would you choose? Please help me? I have followed your rules. All I beg for is one day, one hour, one minute-just one minute without pain. What do I do now? Where do I go for help? Please?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 15th, 2016Someone from Lexington, IN writes:
I have suffered with chronic pain for more than 30 years. My quality of life suffers because of it. I'm allergic to most pain medications and I have to suffer even more because the few I can take are narcotics which most doctors are scared to prescribe lately. I have been herded now to a pain clinic I am terrified of going to and told my doctor I didn't want to have to go to such a place. My doctor should be able to treat me without sending me away. The pain gets so bad I have contemplated suicide more than once as a way to finally stop the pain and suffering.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 15th, 2016Someone from Greenwood, IN writes:
Not everyone who is prescribed opiate pain medication are addicts! Addiction can start anywhere, from a sip of alcohol to pills purchased on the streets. Certain people have a predisposition to addiction and rather than having better screening tools in place and working on education, addiction support and stopping the illegal drugs coming onto our streets, our government has gotten lazy and find it best to take pain medications away from EVERYONE! This is unfair to those of us who follow our doctor's orders, take our medications as directed and keep them safe from the hands of teenagers. I have been on the same medication at the same dosage for 7 years with no desire or "craving" for more. I am DEPENDENT on my medication in order to function daily. I am NOT ADDICTED wanting more and more to achieve the desired "high". Stop hurting the people who are hurting!!! Stop forcing patients to turn to the street for pain relief!!! And stop ignoring the fact that the stricter the laws, the more the heroin overdose rate increases!!! Add exemptions to these new laws.....like those of us suffering from Fibromyalgia, MS, Degenerative Disc Disease, catastrophic injury, arthritis and more. All it takes are physicians with the proper screening tools and no THREATS of losing their licenses looming overhead.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 15th, 2016Someone from Adams, WI writes:
Its has gotten worse fellow chronic physical pain human beings.The cdc director Mr.Klondyn just signed ,''new guidelines,'' that long term opiate medicine are no-longer needed for long term,ie chronic pain for there is no evidence to him they work...kiss your medicine good bye people,,all of us,,,Look it up yourse;lf...cdc guidelines on opiate prescribing,..It a nightmare people,,They refuse to listen to 4000 comments against these guidelines,refused to listen to 2,000 others who took a survey stating more peole will suffer if they ,''ok'' these new guidelines,,Refused to listen to the 24,000 who have signed this pettion,,This man klondyne is literally delusional, and is going to kill or make us all suffer for his craziness, literally.There just not listening to the truth,and we are all about to suffer inhuman physical pain because of this cdc idiot klondyne,,I suggest u let them know or our president know the damage he has just caused,the death he has just caused playing god w/his poisen pen!!!,marywREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 15th, 2016Someone from Huntington, MA writes:
This is such a farce and is not going to help combat the epidemic of heroin use across our country but instead will actually make the problem even worse as more and more chronic pain sufferers are forced to turn to the streets and illegal methods of getting the pain relief they need to be able to live a functional life. How about they do something to shut down the massive amount of heroin flowing into our country ??? oh wait thats right we have our troops overseas guarding the poppy fields to protect that heroin production follow the $$$ people !!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 15th, 2016Someone from Watson, AR signed.
Mar 15th, 2016Someone from Pasadena, TX writes:
My quality of life is almost nonexistenht since I have not able to have my pain medication .I am not a drug addict, and at 63 I will not allow any dr. to cut me open! I didn't abuse the hydrocodone, it helped me to be more productive and look forward to so much more in life. Now I flREPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 15th, 2016Someone from Napa, CA writes:
I am a pain doctor who was "mugged" by the DEA.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 15th, 2016Someone from Brownsburg, IN writes:
God help you people who sit in judgement of us who through no fault of our own live in chronic pain. My Dr out of fear is dropping me. My fear is loosing my quality of life I have been able to establish through a small amount of pain med help. Walk in my shoes for one day and then tell me what you would be able to endure. I have never taken anything other than what was prescribed to me by my doctor and have done so form 1993. I have never felt any high from any pain med I have taken ,it has only ever relieved me of my pain so that I can have a quality of life and that is far away from the way it was befor 1993. Someone has to stand up for those of us who are doing it right . Who will do this for us. The attention is always give to the wrong doers and I get the need for that. But when will how we punish the wrong doers stop hurting those of us who choose to follow the rules .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 15th, 2016Someone from Tucson, AZ writes:
Welcome to the age of BIG BROTHER, poking their bean counting do-gooder noses into the private medical concerns of supposedly FREE citizens of this so called DEMOCRATIC country (ie: Totalitarianism). So when I get cut off from the pain medications that I have been safely and responsibly using for over 15 years, (I've recently been reduced by 20%) I guess I'll be criminalized by turning to 'street drugs' and the whole risky, treacherous culture that comes with it. Why can't legitimate chronic pain patients be left alone to be treated as our Medical Doctors were supposedly trained to. It's not like we don't have enough terrible problems and issues in our lives to deal with; now we are the subject of our own government's misguided and unjust WITCH HUNT. You don't see politicians going after Diabetics; you can die just as surely from an overdose of insulin as oxycontin. Didn't these politicians learn anything from Prohibition? They are just opening up lucrative venues for dope dealers to make huge profits, as legitimate and now disenfranchised pain sufferers seek out some sort of relief. What's next, mass suicides of genuine chronic pain sufferers in order to get these nasty legislators to wake up to the damage they are doing to MILLIONS of law abiding disabled AMERICANS? I'm sure if we all weren't so ILL, we could organize our own lobbying groups to stop all this costly insanity in OUR government. It's YOUR tax dollars that they are spending in the high millions on this questionable Crusade. Remember, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A WAR ON DRUGS, there are just WARS ON PEOPLE. And 'collateral damage' has always been acceptable to these heartless and reality-challenged lawmakers. I guess my dream of being treated with compassion, care and understanding in my old age was just that, a DREAM. Now it's time to awaken to the NIGHTMARE of the 'Kinder and Gentler Nation', Amerika, the country that wages wars of ignorance against their own citizens; and the weakest and most at risk of the lot...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 15th, 2016Someone from Natick, MA writes:
I got a call from my doctors office today. looking for my co pay now luckily im on disability for my chronic pain. for which i tried all the things they thought would help.nothing worked until i was put on pain meds for 12 years. I was taken off them last year now have a hard time getting around to say the least. Quality of life sucks now. anyway i told them i wasnt paying as im only getting half treatment and dont care because my credit is nill anyway due to small paycheck from SSI if i abused them i would have taken more than prescribed as i had an abundant supply of them didnt start with that dosage at beggining but anyone whos ever taken them knows you need increase periodicaly.i was urine tested monthly and never failed. I encourage more people to not pay copay for services other than pain,if they have illegally taken you off your pain medsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 15th, 2016Someone from Westville, NJ writes:
I am being treated unfairly by Dr's and ER Dr's because I too live with chronic pain that won't ever go away. I am made to feel like a low life and constantly put down because I take pain meds and now my Dr is trying to talk me out of taking them and wants me off of them, now what options will I have when she does this?... I am afraid that's going to happen soon and then I'll be back to stuffing.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 14th, 2016Someone from Salem, OR writes:
To let people suffer who have chronic pain should be illegal, it is immoral. What if the person you are denying is your child or mother?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 14th, 2016Someone from Dallas, TX signed.
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Mar 14th, 2016Someone from Pattersonville, NY writes:
Why am I being punished for the misuse of prescription medications by others?REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 14th, 2016Someone from Springfield, IL writes:
The "DEA Threat" has been in force for decades. An Iillinois pharmacist refused to sell me a codeinated cough syrup in the early 1980's, legal to purchase by adults at that time without a prescription. He cited fear of the DEA going over his books to see how much cough syrup he may have sold. He did not want that intrusion. Doctors also, with their practices at stake, find it much simpler to refuse pain patients, than to risk interest or inquiry by the DEA or other federal or state snooping agencies. It's only gotten worse since then. I was denied any pain medication for more than 30 years, for intractable, never-ending neuropathic pain caused by a brachial plexus avulsion spinal injury. My brave and sympathetic GP finally helped me, and I've been pain free the last eight years thanks to the morphine I take every day which totally wipes away the pain. I'm no more a criminal now than 42 years ago when the pain began. CM KingREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 14th, 2016Someone from Louisville, TN signed.
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Mar 13th, 2016Someone from Redford, MI writes:
I am a very sick person and I can't get anything for pain they give me something they don't tell me they they don't tell me they taking me off of it or anything I don't know what that's about and I think that's very dangerous playing with someone's lifeREPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 13th, 2016Someone from Florissant, CO writes:
I certainly hope this goes to every individual running for public office. Unless you have lived a length of time in a body that hurts,, you have no idea how awful it can be. We look to our doctor to help us. That doctor has to be "free" to help, not worried about a pile of ridiculous regulations, that in the end do nothing to fight the DEA's "war on drugs", that by the way, we as the tax payer are being made to pay for. I could go on for hours about how chronic pain has destroyed my life, but no one really listens. The ridiculous part is my doctor can give me back part of the quality of life, if allowed to.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 13th, 2016Someone from Decatur, GA writes:
It's time for the government to open their eyes, people are in real pain. Not drug addicts. Yet they allow our veterans to suffer! They allow the elderly to suffer! Yet they keep the borders open for the cartels to bring in illegal drugs. People are dying. People are desperate! Stop using the DEA and CDC to run those of us that are in dire need. Why are you allowing this to happen? Death to those who are not healthy? History repeats itself. What about banning cigarettes? They are as deadly as heroin. Filled with strychnine. I smell conspiracy!REPORT COMMENTS
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