First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Oct 28th, 2015Someone from Chandler, AZ signed.
Oct 28th, 2015Someone from Kinston, NC writes:
Change this stupid war on drugs in NC. You are hurting law abiding citizens that you were hired by and paid by to take care of.You want anyone who is in pain to suffer and be treated like cattle .leave medicine to doctors and not the DEA. Stop putting g doctors in a position to hurt people.Oct 28th, 2015Someone from Laredo, TX signed.
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Oct 28th, 2015Someone from Glendale, AZ writes:
A person in chronic pain should not be penalized because doctors and patients abuse the system. Treat accordingly.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from Dallas, TX writes:
Chronic pain patients are no longer going to stand for this. First the DEA made it nearly impossible for us to get the medications we need to survive and now the CDC is pushing it a step further. There are millions of us and we are now coordinating our efforts to change these outrageous policies. We will prevail.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from Prairie Grove, AR signed.
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Oct 28th, 2015Someone from Marshfield, MO writes:
My sister Brenda Drapak age 67 has pain, everywhere, I know she has had surgery on her neck and has cancer other things I don't know. She was on very strong pain medication; for many years like maybe 25yrs. I don't know all the pills but they now don't give her nothing. Nothing to slowly get her off just nothing something called Oxiecoton and many others I don't know but it was very strong. Now she needs HELP can you help her. PLEASEREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from Staten Island, NY signed.
Oct 28th, 2015Someone from North Ridgeville, OH writes:
I think more people die from alcohol than pain meds. I'm sure people that are denied their pain meds kill themselves rather than live with it. If one of you had my pain for 24 hours you would make it easier for Doctors to give the needed drugs to their patients. I would not wish this on any of you.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from Cascade, WI signed.
Oct 28th, 2015Someone from Corpus Christi, TX writes:
Stop hurting people who are already down because hey deal with pain in a regular basis. People in Congress don't seem to understand that people with chronic pain already stress out every day trying to live with this pain. Taking the meds that help them to function is cruel and unjust..REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from North Little Rock, AR writes:
The DEA is crooked. I think they would rather see heroin use rise, which it is due to what they are doing to legitimate doctors and pharmacists. They get to keep cash they confiscate as well as property from the dealers they bust. Illegal drugs are big business and the DEA is full of crooks and druggies. It would not surprise me if they were in cohoots with the cartels. Just a couple of years ago the U.S. government got caught shipping guns to the cartels and had some dumb excuse about labelig the guns so they could track where they were going. That is a lame excuse that is insulting to our intelligence. The DEA need to let doctors do the job they have been trained to do. Pain patients already live a life that is hell on earth and we are being caught in the middle and punished. Junkies will get drugs no matter what the government does. Pain patients end up doing without the treatments we need. Some honest hurting people will end up on illegal drugs. What a shame. The DEA has too much power. They are the ones who should be investigated. It is a shame our congress people don't do something to protect the vulnerable and sick. We are citizens and taxpayers who vote. Our ancestors have died for this country, too. You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater by letting these crooked bullies run over us, our doctors and our pharmacists. The DEA is crooked and has too much power. War on drugs, what a bunch of baloney and taxpayer waste. It's expensive and not working! It is war on sick people when you bully the medical profession and stupid as well.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from Staten Island, NY writes:
It is a shame that I have to shop around for a pharmacy to get my pain medication. It is a shame that I have to pay additional funds to see my doctor just to get my pain medication. Often, I go through withdrawal because I cannot get my prescription filled in a timely manner. It seems I am treated like a criminal, even at the doctor's office. That is not fair.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from Goodwater, AL writes:
There is nothing that I can say that has not already been said. I just want my life back.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from Freehold, NJ writes:
Tell me all you so called experts, why the hell are you not targeting alcohol and tobacco!?!? I suffer from chronic i tractable pain from several debilitating conditions that there is NO CURE FOR, ONLY THE PAIN WILL WORSEN OVER TIME. I HAVE HAD MY LIFE SAVING MEDS TAKEN FROM ME LEAVING ME TO BEG GOD TO TAKE ME....AS I READ TODAYS PAPER, A NJ STATE TROOPER WAS ARRESTED FOR A CRASH HE CAUSED ON THE GARDEN STATE PKWY, HE WAS DRUNK!!! DRIVING WITH AN OPEN BOTTLE IN HIS TROOPER CAR WHILE ON THE JOB!!! WHERE THE **** IS THE JUSTICE IN THAT!?!? HES LUCKY HE DIDNT KILL SOMEONE!! BUT THATS OK RIGHT, CAUSE YOU ARE ALL JUST FINE WITH THOSE WHO ****ING ABUSE ALCOHOL, WHO DRIVE WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE. HOW MUCH WILL THIS GET SWEPT UNDER THE RUG!?!? ALL HIS "BROTHERS" WHO WILL COME TO HIS RESCUE, MAKE EXCUSES FOR HIM, HELP HIM GET THE BEST LAWYER..I FOLLOW THE ****ING RULES. I DONT ABUSE MY MEDS, MEDICATIONS I ****ING NEED TO HAVE A QUALITY OF LIFE..ARE ANY OF YOU GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE NUMBER ONE KILLER IN THIS COUNTRY!?!? ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO'S DEATH RATE FAR EXCEED THAT OF A DRUG ABUSER, AND YET YOU ALL PREY ON THE CHRONICALLY ILL, TAKING MUCH NEEDED MEDS AWAY FROM THEM...ALL YOU CHRONIC PAINERS, ITS TIME WE TAKE OUR FIGHT TO THE WHITE HOUSE, ITS TIME WE SHOW OUR FACES, THE PAIN AND AGONY WE ARE BEING ****ING FORCED TO LIVE IN! ALL YOU DOCTORS OUT THERE, WHO TOOK THE OATH TO DO NO HARM, SHAME THE HELL ON YOU IF YOU DONT HAVE THE BALLS TO STAND UP FOR THOSE SUFFERING IN PAIN! GET THE **** OUT OF THE MEDICAL FIELD IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE SCUM DRS WHO BELITTLE YOUR PATIENTS, WHO TREAT THEIR PATIENTS LIKE ADDICTS, WHO HAVE ZERO COMPASSION FOR YOUR PATIENTS, WHO HAS STRIPPED YOUR PATIENTS OF THEIR LIFE SAVING MEDS, MEDS YOU KNOW DAM WELL WORKED FOR YEARS AND THEN YOU TURN AROUND AND TELL THEM THEIR CONDITION DONT WARRANT PAIN MEDS. YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY!! YOU WORK FOR US! WITHOUT PATIENTS YOU WOULD BE A DAM NOBODY. IVE YET TO SEE ANY DOCTORS COMMENT ON HERE, IM SURE YOU'RE READING THEM THOUGH. ALL THESE STORIES ON THIS PETITION RIP ME APART...WHY!?!? BE AUSE I HAVE COMPASSION FOR OTHERS, BE AYSE I STAND ALONGSIDE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM WHO ARE BEING FORCED TO SUFFER BY OUR GOVERNMENT. TO ALL YOU ADDICTS OUT THERE-SCREW YOU! BECAUSE OF YOUR ****ED UP CHOICES YOU HAVE PUT THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS IN HARMS WAY..I HAVE NO COMPASSION FOR ANYONE WHO CHOOSES TO ABUSE. ZERO!!! WE ALL HAVE CHOICES TO MAKE..I SHOULD NOT BE PAYING THE PRICE WITH MY LIFE BECAUSE SOME ******* CHOSE TO ABUSE!! GET YOURSELF SOME ****ING HELP! THIS COUNTRY IS A DISGRACE!!! HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU THINK THOSE SUFFERING IN EXCRUCIATING PAIN CAN TAKE!?!? Oh look whose on the news again, Lamar Odem. another asshle who has so much ****ing money, gets access to all kinds of drugs, but yet its an addiction right!?!? LET ALL THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO ABUSE SUFFER, KET THEM GO THRU THE WORST WITHDRAWALS IN THEIR LIFE, MAYBE THEY'LL WAKE THE **** UP! THERE ARE MANY CHRONIC PAINREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from Tipton, IN signed.
Oct 28th, 2015Someone from Freehold, NJ writes:
Are any of you paying attention to the chronic pain sufferers!?!? Does anyone care!?!? I wonder just how many of you have debilitating conditions that cause you excruciating pain if left untreated!? Surely some of you must know what pain is like,,,But because you sit on congress and make these horrific restrictions, it wont affect you will it!?!? How many if your loved ones suffer with chronic pain!? All of you cant be in perfect heallth. How many of you are taking pain meds to relieve your pain, or your loved ones!? All of you running this country are the worst thing that has happened to the people who are suppose to serve and protect. You all are VIOLATING MY RIGHTS AS A CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY! Who the hell are any of you to decide what I can have for my pain. I AM NOT AN ADDICT, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME JERK WHO CHOSE TO ABUSE MEDS, THIS IS INHUMANE!! How many of you *******s drink alcohol or smoke!?!? The number one killers in this country but yet you dont jump on that bandwagon and make it illegal or take it away from the alcoholics and the people of this country,. YOU ALL ARE A BUNCH OF LYING SCUM! You are no better than HITLER! TAKING INNOCENT LIVES ONES BY ONE, LEGIT PATIENTS FORCED TO THE STREETS FOR RELIEF OR WORSE TAKING THEIR LIVES!! GOD SEES ALL, AND THE REIGN OF TERROR, PAIN AND SUFFERING YOU ARE ENSTILLING IN ALL LEGIT CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS IS A DISGRACE! OUR FOREFATHERS ARE TURNING IN THEIR GRAVES FOR THE DESTRUCTION YOU ALL HAVE CAUSED, WE NEED OUR MEDS FOR A QUALITY OF LIFE, I AM SICK AND TIRED OF CRYING IN AGONY HERE, THIS IS NOT ****ING LIVING, ITS EXISTING. WE DEAL WITH ENOUGH TRYING TO EVEN FIND A DR WHO WILL HELP US, EVERY CALL IVE MADE YESTERDAY I WAS TURNED AWAY, WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY ARE YOU PEOPLE RUNNING HERE!? Why anyone would want to come into this country is beyond me, when its run by terrorsits who are killing their own people, preying on the sick, **** YOU CONGRESS, **** YOU DEA, **** YOU CDC, MAY YOU ALL KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO SUFFER SO BAD YOU BEG GOD TO TAKE YOU!! AND I HOPE YOU HAVE DOORS SLAMMED IN YOUR FACE, I HOPE YOU CRAWL UP IN A BALL IN AGONY.. HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING YOU ARE CAUSING PAIN AND SUFFERING AND DEATH TO THE CHRONIC PAIN COMMUNITY!?!? GO TO ****ING HELL ALL OF YOU!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from Thomasville, NC signed.
Oct 28th, 2015Someone from Corpus Christi, TX writes:
Stop hurting people who are already down because hey deal with pain in a regular basis. People in Congress don't seem to understand that people with chronic pain already stress out every day trying to live with this pain. Taking the meds that help them to function is cruel and unjust..REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from Corpus Christi, TX writes:
I cannot live like this. How can our country treat their own citizens who have chronic pain, like they would a dog that is left lying in a road after a car hit it. Just leaving us without the proper medication to help ease our pain. We have family to take care of, we want to be able to live a life just like everyone else. We are now being treated like criminals, no respect for us, we are not drug dealers or drug abusedr. We just want to be treated like a decent human being. I have an autistic son I need to care for. I can barely do that any more. I can barely move. I have neck pain from two bulging herniaaed disc and also have a slipped disc in my back and tailbone area pain. I have sciatic pain on both sides and I have pain from rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia and I am sick with Crohn's. I want to live but I cannot when I am in so much pain. Congress should feel this pain I am talking about, so they can understand what they are doing to us. You are killing us.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 28th, 2015Someone from Powder Springs, GA writes:
Quality of life, that's what we want right? To be able to live our lives without pain. Well, Quality of life are the keys words. there is NO quality to life for chronic pain sufferers. We are in pain constantly, we are faced with our dr's not believing, playing medication roulette because they KNOW what will help but won't prescribe it, we're faced with family and friends who don't believe us and think we're just lazy, or think "it's all in your head", there is no quality. It's just life. A life we live, in pain, every day. I have fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis and bursitis in both of my hips. I'm only 40 years old, have a 5 year old daughter who I cannot carry up the stairs to bed or hold her for very long when she's sick, I can't toss the football with my 12 year old son, or ride bikes with my husband and kids. I can, but to do so would cause me so much pain, pain that makes me sick to my stomach and takes me days to recover from. People don't know because they can't SEE it...and that saying "Seeing is Believing" doesn't hold true for chronic pain suffers and something has GOT to change!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 27th, 2015Someone from Bardstown, KY signed.
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Oct 27th, 2015Someone from Arlington, TX writes:
I have suffered with chronic pain since 2009. I was in a car accident. I continued to work as a software support engineer but needed pain meds to continue to work and support my family. I was treated like a drug user even though they tested me and looked into my background and even spoke to my boss who knew me for 7 years. The problem is that anesthesiologists are popping up and making pain clinics and they have no idea how to prescribe pain meds. They have no training in chronic pain because they are anesthesiologists. I think if they have a pain clinic they should be made to go back to school for extra certification. A physiatrist is a doctor who learns about chronic pain, medications, and rehabilitation. They understand what it is like and are usually very caring. However because the cdc and FDA don't understand that there are real patients like me who will need to be on pain meds the rest of my life, they make rules that make it hard for the doctors to prescribe or make it so the doctor is afraid to prescribe pain meds. Trust me we go through so many checks to see if we are drug addicts, we don't need a government agency stepping in and doing it as well. Pharmacies also refuse to fill prescriptions just because they can! Please help those of us that have been on meds for years.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 27th, 2015Someone from Arlington, TX writes:
I have suffered with chronic pain since 2009. I was in a car accident. I continued to work as a software support engineer but needed pain meds to continue to work and support my family. I was treated like a drug user even though they tested me and looked into my background and even spoke to my boss who knew me for 7 years. The problem is that anesthesiologists are popping up and making pain clinics and they have no idea how to prescribe pain meds. They have no training in chronic pain because they are anesthesiologists. I think if they have a pain clinic they should be made to go back to school for extra certification. A physiatrist is a doctor who learns about chronic pain, medications, and rehabilitation. They understand what it is like and are usually very caring. However because the cdc and FDA don't understand that there are real patients like me who will need to be on pain meds the rest of my life, they make rules that make it hard for the doctors to prescribe or make it so the doctor is afraid to prescribe pain meds. Trust me we go through so many checks to see if we are drug addicts, we don't need a government agency stepping in and doing it as well. Pharmacies also refuse to fill prescriptions just because they can! Please help those of us that have been on meds for years.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 27th, 2015Someone from Plymouth, PA writes:
I go through this and i have major cronic painREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 27th, 2015Someone from Macomb, MI writes:
This is rediculous. I suffer from chronic pain that sends me to the ER frequently. My Doctor stopped prescribing me norco. I can't take Tylenol 3-4 due to the damage and Illness it causes my stomach. I really don't care what meds they prescribe me as long as it stops my pain. As of yet there aren't many. If they do find one for me my next problem will be withdrawals. If I do have withdrawals from norco then what are they going to do? I do regularly take the norco so I assume that will be a part of it. Doesn't that mean they will just have to prescribe me another narcotic which is something they already aren't doing. How are we supposed to continue things like work and child/family interaction? I have 6 children that depend on my quality of life...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 27th, 2015Someone from Fort Myers, FL signed.
Oct 27th, 2015Someone from Harrison, MI writes:
Dea agency is out to make money on doctors an patients on there illegal search an seizure procedures an it needs to stop because there the criminals in this chaos..on doctors an patients. So who are the real criminals 8n this mess not doctors not patients it's dea cdc pharmacy government. An drug company's ..REPORT COMMENTS
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Oct 26th, 2015Someone from Howell, NJ writes:
This INHUMANE war on LEGIT patients abd their doctors needs to stop!! YOU ARE TARGETING THE CHRONICALLY ILL, THE ONES WHO DO AS THEIR TOLD, WHO TAKE THEIR MEDS RESPONSIBLY, WHO ARE STIGMATIZED AS DRUG ADDICTS AND PILL SEEKERS, WHO ARE HAVING DOCTORS ACROSS THIS COUNTRY TURN THEIR BACKS ON THEM AND FOR WHAT!?!? To make it seem like the government and DEA are actually doing something!?!? You fill the media with your FALSIFIED statistics, making it seem like there is this huge pill epidemic when they couldn't be further from the truth!! The real epidemic in this country is CHRONIC INTRACTABLE PAIN, PAIN THERE IS NO CURE FOR..How the hell are the LEGIT patients suppise to get any kind of help!?! IBUPROFEN, ALEEVEM TYLONOL DO NOT WORK. OUR DEBILITATING CONDITIONS ARE WAAAY BEYOND THAT BS. MOST OF US HAVE HAD THESE CONDITIONS FOR MANY YEARS. MOST HAVE TRIED ALL OTHER OPTIONS OUR BODIES COULD TAKE, MOST OF US RESORTED TO OPIODS AS OUR LAST RESORT!!! AND MOST OF US WERE GIVEN SOME QUALITY OF LIFE BECAUSE OF IT!! Now, you are taking away life saving medications that are much needed and MANY OF US HAVE BEEN ON FOR YEARS!! Would you think of stopping a heart patients life saving meds!?!? I THINK NOT! Without my pain medications I have ZERO QUALITY OF LIFE, HELL IM GOING THRU IT NOW AS MY MEDS WERE LOWERED TO AN INEFFECTIVE DOSE. My kids watch their mom cry in agony all day, every day. I USE to enjoy doing crafts, making wreaths, maybe volunteering at the food bank an hour here or there. I USE to love making little christmas crafts with my goddaughter and taking her to the local hospitals to hand them out to the sick children. So many things I USE to enjoy doing, now thru ABSOLUTELY NO FAULT OF MY OWN, I AM BEING FORCED TO BE A VEGETABLE, DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ANYMORE BUT BEGGING GOD TO TAKE ME. Am I depressed!?! HELL YES I am!! Never in my life did I suffer from anxiety and depression, until my meds were lowered, stripping me of EVERYTHING I ONCE LOVED!! WE ARE NOT ADDICTS, WE ARE PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU, WHO SADLY HAVE BEEN THROWN SOME BAD CURVEBALLS THAT HAS CAUSED OUR HEALTH TO TAKE A TUMBLE FOR THE WORST..WE DID NOT ASK TO HAVE THESE HORRIBLE, DEBILITATING CONDITIONS, MY GID I'D GIVE ANYTHING TO HAVE THE LIFE I USE TO HAVE BACK. WOULD LOVE TO BE A PRODUCTIVE MEMBER OF SOCIETY AND BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR MY KIDS, AGAIN, THAT HAS ALL BEEN TAKEN FROM ME. WHEN A PERSON SUFFERS FROM THESE EXCRUCIATING CONDITIONS AND HAVE TRIED ALL OTHER OPTIONS, WHY IN HELL ARE LIFE SAVING MEDICATIONS BEING INTENTIONALLY WITHHELD!?! Because there are people in this country who CHOOSE TO PARTY WITH PILLS, CHOOSE TO ABUSE, WHY IN GODS NAME ARE YOU INTENTIONALLY CAUSING ADDITIONAL PAIN AND SUFFERING TO THOSE WHO ARE LEGIT PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES!?!? Chronic pain doesn't just affect the person existing in it, it affects our loved ones as well. They don't no how to help us to ease the pain and they sure as hell DO NOT U DERSTAND WHY OUR GOVERNMENT IS INFLICTING HARM ONREPORT COMMENTS
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