First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Dec 15th, 2015Someone from Taylor, MI writes:
Try living in pain so bad you can't get out of bed but you have a small child to take care of, who wants to be held. That is true hell when you can't pick up your crying child because of the pain in YOUR body. -
Dec 15th, 2015Someone from Gaithersburg, MD signed.
Dec 15th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
Sometime back I went over to a retired police officers home to visit and he said doctors gave him 30 hydrocodone to last one month. Keep in mind that this is chronic pain. He not knowing that I have taken them in the past, scratched his head and ask me " how do they expect you to take these things". I can take three a day and have relief for 10 days or I can take 1 a day and suffer in the afternoons for 30 days. The word trap comes to mindREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
I had called two newspapers in this area to keep this from being a secret from the public a while back. They refused when I had all the proper paperwork and truth that was in it. I had asked them that even if a story is true and you know it, they fear the unknown.The local news will not touch it. The networks are not ours anymore, at least the local ones. I have done everything under the sun to ruffle some feathers without going to jail to get them to come to my door. Could it be that is what they don't want? Would draw some serious attn. if they did. Newspapers, news and etc would nearly have to pick up on it. And I don't give up that easily. Just letting you know the what they don't want.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from Denver, CO signed.
Dec 15th, 2015Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
Write call the news , somebody will help bring these monsters in the light .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
These people even harm young students . Anyone see 60 minREPORT COMMENTS
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Dec 15th, 2015Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
I even wrote to the BBC. Are story will be heard .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
Tell your stories to the news . Tell them of this abuse this hate crime . If not this county other County news get the stories out . Tell them about our suffering.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
Don't know if anybody has realized this , the politicians don't read these letters . We all need to take it to the news . We have to get our stories out to the voters and get them where it hurtsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from Tomah, WI writes:
I just came back from Korea 3 years ago and I'm only getting 10% and I had a bypass I just got done with the P T S D Group now I'm trying to find out who I see you and who I talk to you but the way to va looking I'm kind of scared to talk to anybody that works in the va and it's getting so bad I don't even trust the janitor he's probably getting benefits that we don't know about and they're coming out of vaREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from Montpelier, OH writes:
I am no drug seeker but have been accused of it and I am sick of it!!!! I go by what the pain management NP says and this ***** is still nasty to me and I am tired of being disrespected by her!!!! I have chronic pain have had sense I lost my right dominate hand in an accident at work and trying to get used to doing things with my left hand has caused me major pain on my body!!!! I have came to seclude myself from family and friends to avoid being a chronic complainer ughhh it makes me sad :( for the DEA to put stipulations on a Doctors treating is just plain nit picking!!! I hope one day these people are in the same predicament as I am and are told they are DRUG SEEKERS!!! BY THE WAY I AM 57 YRS. OLD I WOULD LIKE TO ENJOY LIFE AND HAVE ONE DOCTOR TO PRESCIBE ME MEDICINE!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from Fennville, MI signed.
Dec 15th, 2015Someone from Herrin, IL writes:
Cut me off cold turkey after 10 years on my pain meds. This was just wrong.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 15th, 2015Someone from Hartford, SD writes:
I never doubted that there were legitimate reasons to be on prescription strength pain medications. I doubted that it might be something I would ever need. I recently was diagnosed with TMD and went through a couple doctors to get any diagnosis. The second doctor I went to was nice enough to tell me that she did a statewide search and that I came up clean for not "drug hopping" in the state. Thanks for missing my diagnosis rather than doing your job. I wonder if most doctors have become like her, not all people on pain medication like being on it...I think a lot are like me. We are on it just so we can get through the day...most pain medications don't take all the pain away...but allow us to be functional, be part of life...not just a person who is ready to end it all due to pain that is excruciating to eay the least.REPORT COMMENTS
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Dec 15th, 2015Someone from Missoula, MT writes:
I've had 4 back surgeries - fused L2-S1 and both SI joints. Have had over 29 steroid injections, not one of them helped. Without any pain medication I have zero quality of life.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2015Someone from Lucerne Valley, CA writes:
People will do anything to get out of pain, anything!REPORT COMMENTS
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Dec 14th, 2015Someone from Denver, CO writes:
If they could only imagine waking up every morning fighting the daily battle of living with debilitating pain and how they would get through it. How it robs your life of family, friends, relationships, your job, basically anything you care about. Medication gives us a chance to get out of bed, to spend time with loved ones, to do things we would not be able to with out it. It is hard enough now to get the help we need, please don't make us suffer through any more hardship in getting the appropriate care we need to help with our pain management plan.REPORT COMMENTS
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Dec 14th, 2015Someone from Hollywood, FL writes:
I am sick of being treated inhumane because I have pain!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2015Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
Well democracy , we had a good run . Now we live in a communist country , under marshal law and lies .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2015Someone from Milwaukee, WI writes:
This country has got to get over its obsession with addiction. The very idea of worrying about a terminal patient, for example, becoming "addicted" to pain killers is insanity. Most people loathe becoming addicted to anything and scrimp on using proper pain medication and managing pain, thereby setting their own recovery back. We need to control the addiction hysteria.REPORT COMMENTS
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Dec 14th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
The statement below reflects earlier comments of the gods of this world. A key government panel that oversees pain research will file a formal objection to proposed opioid prescribing guidelines being drafted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Those guidelines, which are set to be released next month, would discourage primary care physicians from prescribing opioid pain medications This key govt panel is the same as the 10 or 12 member team that Obama hired and answers to none. They tell who lives and dies on all and any treatment to those that use up resources within our system. This panel holds yours and my life in there hands. You do have a number on your back believe it or not. I challenge anyone to prove otherwise. The several hundred pages of the new Obama health care plan that was not read by any in congress and passed by congress seems to be the law of the land without a vote. In it you would find some disturbing items. They appear to be omitted from the online version of it. Its called a death panel. Its not just pain patients with undo suffering. Its many people with cancer etc. My brother had cancer and I knew it. Went to doctor and nothing wrong, all is well. he died 6 months later. Mother of 79 years of age was not treated for broken hip. I had to fight like hell to get her treatment. As insane as this appears, it is true and correct in every way. Debt reduction? Or do you like the thrill of slowly killing off those that honorably served there country and defended it with there lives to satisfy your ungodly ways?. Enjoy the air conditioning while your here................REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
The statement below reflects earlier comments of the gods of this world. A key government panel that oversees pain research will file a formal objection to proposed opioid prescribing guidelines being drafted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Those guidelines, which are set to be released next month, would discourage primary care physicians from prescribing opioid pain medications This key govt panel is the same as the 10 or 12 member team that Obama hired and answers to none. They tell who lives and dies on all and any treatment to those that use up resources within our system. This panel holds yours and my life in there hands. You do have a number on your back believe it or not. I challenge anyone to prove otherwise. The several hundred pages of the new Obama health care plan that was not read by any in congress and passed by congress seems to be the law of the land without a vote. In it you would find some disturbing items. They appear to be omitted from the online version of it. Its called a death panel. Its not just pain patients with undo suffering. Its many people with cancer etc. My brother had cancer and I knew it. Went to doctor and nothing wrong,all is well. he died 6 months later. Mother of 79 years of age was not treated for broken hip. I had to fight like hell to get her treatment. As insane as this appears, it is true and correct in every way. Debt reduction? Or do you like the thrill of slowly killing off those that hon served there country and defended it with there lives to satisfy your ungodly ways?. Enjoy the air conditioning while your here................REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2015Someone from Nederland, TX signed.
Dec 14th, 2015Someone from Silverado, CA writes:
Quality of life is and always should be the top reason for prescribing Narcotic Pain relief for those who deal with Chronic Pain 24/7. This idea of just living with pain when you have no life at all without relief just doesn't make sense. We Americans, especially Veterans, are guaranteed in VA regulations to receive the pain relief we need for "quality of life". I'll bet if these two doctors dealt with the pain I have for over 40 years, 2/3 rds of my lifetime, they would find away to get the Pain Medication they needed because they wouldn't be able to do their jobs and function without it. When a patient can't care for themselves, their children, support their families, leave their homes or function because of Chronic Pain, giving them no life worth while living and they are telling us to just "suck it up" makes no sense at all when they can deal with life as long as they have the pain medications that they should be prescribed. We are shocked at the high levels of Veterans taking their own lives and yet so many more will make that choice when they have no relief from the pain they deal with and for them, life is just no longer worth living. We have been told for years the lie that Medical Marijuana leads to harder drugs and if that is true, it's not but is what they tell us, the Federal guidelines for prescribing Pain Medications are turning Americans to legal or illegal drugs for relief, we only have the Feds to blame for the new drug addicts that they are making by refusing to prescribe Pain Medication. Didn't this country learn anything from Prohibition? They are now supporting the Drug Cartels who will provide whatever patients need and want to find relief from their pain. It's time that Americans take a stand to receive the Pain Medications they need for their quality of life. If doctors and pharmacist are afraid of being sued for overdose from prescribed Pain Mediations, it's time to sue them for not prescribing what their patients need. Also forcing these Health Care workers to stand by their oath to "cause no harm" because refusing to prescribe the Pain Medications needed, is causing harm. This is torture and as the Germans found after WW2, the idea of "just following orders" will not stand in America. We must take a stand against these attacks on good Americans who will now be forced to look to other avenues for their relief.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
If we were abusing it, we could go downtown and get it without a doctor abusing us. We chose to be honest and still get treated in an inhumane manor. Or do you have a problem with persons with handicaps and want a perfect world?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2015Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
You are more worried about the abuser than the actual patient .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2015Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding your concerns over patient access to prescription drugs and pain medications. I appreciate hearing from you about this issue. I care about the ability of patients to access needed medication and I am following this situation closely. However, while I understand the importance of ensuring reliable access to vital medication, I also understand the problems caused by prescription drug abuse, and understand the need to balance access to medication with common sense measures to fight drug abuse. An estimated 7 million Americans used prescription drugs for nonmedical purposes in 2009. With increasing availability and a mistaken notion of safety, problems with prescription drug abuse continue to escalate. These include addiction, overdose and life-threatening complications. Please be assured that I will continue to advocate balanced measures that both ensure adequate access to prescription medication and address our Nation?s prescription drug abuse problem. Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future about this or any other matter of importance to you. For more information on this or other issues, I encourage you to visit my website, http://casey.senate.gov. I hope you will find this online office a comprehensive resource to stay up-to-date on my work in Washington, request assistance from my office or share with me your thoughts on the issues that matter most to you and to Pennsylvania. Sincerely, Bob Casey United States SenatorREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2015Someone from Strasburg, CO writes:
I am one whom tried to commit suicide because I could not get the pain medication I needed. The pain became so unbearable I actually tried to end my life. This shouldn't happen to anyone. We should have access to any medication opiates or otherwise to allow us to live a half way decent life. I am only 62, but I might as well be 100. I cannot do anything except lay in bed.REPORT COMMENTS
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