First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jan 30th, 2016Someone from Tyrone, PA writes:
It would be funny that judgemental doctors, med schools, pharmacists and the government (DEA) have made the War on (Street) Drugs even tougher by criminalizing and labelling suffering, innocent chronic pain patients. Many become so desperate, they feel their only choices are street drugs, unregulated alternative sources of relief or suicide. What a literal shame. Please show your compassion and integrity and FIX THIS! -
Jan 30th, 2016Someone from Albany, KY writes:
The treatment or treating of many common complaints that people see a physician for, in the first place, is the inability to treat the pain or discomfort of the said condition by over-the-counter pain relievers, or remedies themselves. The government should not control our healthcare to the point that it has the right to tell our physicians how to do their jobs. Give Physicians their long-standing right to treat their patients as they see fit. Our first line of defense after the OTC's have failed is none other than our Family Physicians. They KNOW their patients and many have known them their whole lives. Who better than they to decide if we are drug seekers or not.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 30th, 2016Someone from Albany, KY writes:
The treatment or treating of many common complaints that people see a physician for, in the first place, is the inability to treat the pain or discomfort of the said condition by over-the-counter pain relievers, or remedies themselves. The government should not control our healthcare to the point that it has the right to tell our physicians how to do their jobs. Give Physicians their long-standing right to treat their patients as they see fit. Our first line of defense after the OTC's have failed is none other than our Family Physicians. They KNOW their patients and many have known them their whole lives. Who better than they to decide if we are drug seekers or not.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 30th, 2016Someone from Somerset, KY writes:
If there's going to be so mnay regulations against things that are abused, by crooks, not all, then why dont they regulate alcohol. Make a rule a person can only purchase 1 small bottle every month. Make them feel crappy when they come to get it. And see how soon it is before they go looking for illegal ways to purchase a bigger bottle. Sounds crazy dont it? And alcohol serves no medicinal good at all! Instead the wrong people drink gallons, get in their cars, and drive drunk. In fact some will cost someone their lives! But is there any strict regulations on the purchase of alcohol? No! I doubt the big wig rule makers, including the governor would want to have to give up his liquor cabinent. Or even beign alloted a cup of alcohol to last for 28 days. People that need medicine that helps them function everyday should not have to be denied just because there are crooks out there will get it illegaly anyway! You're taking away a doctors ability to make judgement calls that might help their patients. Its a shame when there are needle exchanges for heroine addicts that are allowed to still use but those of us who need pain medicine cant be treated without judgement, or treated AT ALL!!! You all really stink sometimes!! Rethink what a mistake these controlling laws are. And the good law abiding people they affect the most!!REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 29th, 2016Someone from Bethesda, MD writes:
If not for opioid medication, I wouldn't be able to go to school or work. It has saved my life.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 29th, 2016Someone from Portland, OR writes:
My husband was taken off his headache medication because he's " too old " . that just don't seen fairREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 29th, 2016Someone from Oakdale, TN signed.
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Jan 29th, 2016Someone from Bandera, TX writes:
The DEA terrorizes doctors to justify it's existence. This agency serves no useful purpose, and should be defunded and disbanded.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 29th, 2016Someone from New Market, VA signed.
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Jan 28th, 2016Someone from Laurelville, OH signed.
Jan 28th, 2016Someone from Cleveland, OH writes:
My family suffers in pain daily. No doctor will treat me,but they will bill me. My brother has a ruptured disc in his back ,but doctors won't prescribe more than aleve. Everyone is being punished for the wrong doing of few.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 28th, 2016Someone from Vilonia, AR signed.
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Jan 28th, 2016Someone from Weirton, WV writes:
There are millions of people who suffer chronic pain. It is sickening that they suffer because of what drug addicts have done with pain meds. Yes, there is a risk of addiction, albeit very low risk in those seeking meds for pain, but it does come down to quality of life. People in this day and age should not have to suffer a miserable life of constant pain. People looking to get high will always find a way to do so no matter how many rules/regulations they put on pain meds. These rules do nothing but cost a pain patient money, time, and quality of life.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 28th, 2016Someone from Las Vegas, NV writes:
So far I am lucky - my pain management doctor knows that my SCS implant and failed fusion combined with DDD has put me in a place where pain and I will never be separated. And my doctor LISTENS TO ME. Not the DEA or CDC. Please let doctors treat their patients to the best of their ability. Thank you.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 28th, 2016Someone from San Antonio, TX signed.
Jan 28th, 2016Someone from Salinas, CA writes:
It's pretty said when your Chronic Pain doctor tells you he's sorry then gives you the whole spiel about how the DEA.....I hate to say this but if only the people that made this law could come down with severe chronic pain themselves would we then see a change in the law!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 28th, 2016Someone from Wheeling, WV signed.
Jan 28th, 2016Someone from Mesa, AZ writes:
Stop the insanity. Patients in pain sometimes need meds.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 28th, 2016Someone from Kansas City, MO writes:
Doctors who fail to treat chronic pain patients with integrity, compassion and appropriate medication should exit the medical field immediately. #patientsnotaddicts #firstdonoharmREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 28th, 2016Someone from Cherokee Village, AR writes:
I suffer from C.R.P.S. I have chronic pain daily!!! I am not an addict!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 28th, 2016Someone from Cedar Rapids, IA signed.
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Jan 28th, 2016Someone from Chicago, IL writes:
It's sad that the CDC, FDA, Government classifying people who really live with pain day in and day out and have been on opioids for years and years not just recently. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see if I am looking at a patient record see what there illness is and see how long they have been on their meds versus a drug addict which probably stole/robbed the opioids in the first place. People think that limiting the prescription from doctors is really going to change the numbers of drug addicts. Drug addicts will find a way no matter what. Leave the chronic pain patients alone and add more service help for the drug addicts and get them the help they need. This is ridiculous.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 28th, 2016Someone from Piketon, OH writes:
I've been scrutinized my whole life by doctors that I've seen trying to get some kind of help for my pain. My regular physician won't touch me, but yet he understands I'm in pain and I need help. I've been seeing a doctor at a pain clinic but I recently moved and had to (try) to find another doctor. I've been waiting for so long to get into another doctor, I've been thinking of just giving up. Why should I care when no one else does? I'm tired of fighting the system. No one understands unless these things happen to them.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 28th, 2016Someone from Johnson City, TN writes:
Chronic pain affects 100 million people in the US (NIH-IOM). This number doesn't include family members, friends or treating physicians. That is 1 in 3 adults in America ( children & adolescents aren't in that figure either- yes, they also suffer with chronic pain) We are collectively worried about all the rhetoric coming out of the media & agencies concerning access to pain care. Where's the CDC's emergency "guidelines" for access to all forms of pain care for this population? Limits on opioids for pain care only hurts those who live with pain- Addicts will move on to other substances. Addicts seek euphoria, chronic pain patients seek relief (no euphoria involved)😔 Please investigate the data that is being utilized- even the CDC admits that the numbers are double and triple counted making the overdose epidemic appear larger than it is- see CDC site. Medical examiners report patients who have taken their medication as prescribed, but perish from unrelated cause- as being contributed to by opioids- this is misleading and wrong. Secret meetings to establish secret guidelines with secret groups inputs- this is just so wrong 😔REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 28th, 2016Someone from Bloomville, NY writes:
The not knowing that one day my doctor will tell me that she will no longer be able to prescribe pain meds for me is killing me slowly. Two weeks ago for the first time I was treated like a criminal when I called my pharmacy up to ask them a question about my pain meds. This has to stop. :-(REPORT COMMENTS
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