First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Oct 16th, 2015Someone from Covington, LA signed.
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Oct 16th, 2015Someone from Campbellsville, KY writes:
Just stop trying to kill us, the people in true pain need help. If needed, more random pill counts as drug test, legit people won't mind that. But those with chronic migraine, save other diseases need relief. Black magic doesn't work with us, I bet it wouldn't work for you eitherOct 16th, 2015Someone from Bartlesville, OK writes:
How would I live without pain meds? I go to one physician. I was not told that the ANTIBIOTICS would leave me with peripheral neuropathy (unbearable pain 24/7) and bone and joint pain! Where was the FDA when I was given CIPRO and LEVAQUIN? They weren't protecting me!!! If you take my pain meds away, you might shoot me to put me out of my misery, I dion't have a life anymore anyway!!!! Where were you when I was poisoned with antibiotics by a physician???? Do no harm!!!!!!!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 16th, 2015Someone from Bartlesville, OK writes:
How would I live without pain meds? I go to one physician. I was not told that the ANTIBIOTICS would leave me with peripheral neuropathy (unbearable pain 24/7) and bone and joint pain! Where was the FDA when I was given CIPRO and LEVAQUIN? They weren't protecting me!!! If you take my pain meds away, you might shoot me to put me out of my misery, I dion't have a life anymore anyway!!!! Where were you when I was poisoned with antibiotics by a physician???? Do no harm!!!!!!!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 16th, 2015Someone from Mobile, AL signed.
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Oct 16th, 2015Someone from Minden, LA writes:
As a patient with chronic migraines and daily headaches, I have experienced pain and depression so great that I've had to seek help for suicidal thoughts. Please don't take away medications that actually give us relief for the moment; to allow us to sleep and our minds and bodies to heal. We are not drug seekers, we are simply looking to stop the excruciating pain some of us have to live with daily. Thank you.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 16th, 2015Someone from Eugene, OR signed.
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Oct 16th, 2015Someone from Plano, TX writes:
I suffer from complicated migraines that mimic a stroke, and am treated like I am a drug seeker every time I end up in the Emergency Room, or if I go to a Neurologist and they see the drugs prescribed to me for the pain. They tell me it is your medicines and you are taking too many. How is taking 1 pain pill every day for the severest pain, and one for the pain every 2 to 3 days. We need the people who are suppose to help us quit IGNORING US and LISTEN.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 16th, 2015Someone from Las Vegas, NV signed.
Oct 16th, 2015Someone from Newport, MI writes:
First we are INJURED by fluroquinns lied to they are not antibiotics but CHEMO then we are made to look like its in our heads. do NOT take away pain meds how dare you to treat humans inhumanely after leaving them disabled !!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 16th, 2015Someone from Joppa, MD signed.
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Oct 16th, 2015Someone from Mobile, AL writes:
Medical science has not yet found a way to effectively address many health conditions that leads to chronic pain. Until such time that more effective treatment methods are developed, our only option to provide these people some measure of quality of life are these opioid medications.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 16th, 2015Someone from Mobile, AL writes:
When any other therapies have been tried and the only treatment that relieves the pain is opioids, why would you take that away from them?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 15th, 2015Someone from Dublin, CA signed.
Oct 15th, 2015Someone from Carlton, OR writes:
I've had osteoarthritis in every joint from young childhood to now 62 years. Have taken ibuprofen and aspirin ALL my life to barely function. I can no longer take these NSAIDS. My kidneys have shut down while trying to stay on top of pain. Anti depressants make me severely depressed. The only thing that has shown some relief is oxicodone. Most doctors are very reluctant to treat their patients properly. Due to the control the DEA has placed on our American Physicians. I only hope that here in Oregon when my pain will not be helped any longer I will be allowed to take the "RIGHT TO DIE" med. Because I cannot live in constant pain. This is NOT living! I couldn't see my pet or any living being, in this kind of torture. Nobody knows until you are faced with unbearable pain, when sleep is impossible. Walking is a nightmare, standing is not an option, sitting in a wheelchair is not less pain but different sort of pain. When you do NOT recognize your own face in a mirror due to the grimace looks that are a permanent YOU; you don't want to show your family, spouse or the world for that matter because the world as we know it now is in very sad shape. And we, AND all of the we's should be able to see and experience a true less painful smile upon everyone's face. I hope you, those of you who don't know what pain is will never have to experience it EVER. This is inhumane, shame on YOU !!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 15th, 2015Someone from Emeryville, CA signed.
Oct 15th, 2015Someone from Wellman, IA writes:
I have bad three instances of chronic and acute pain. I have bone spurs and degeneration in my neck that causes level 6 ( out of 10) pain constantly. Three doctors refuse pain meds. 9 months ago I tore ligaments in my foot and ankle and asked for something to help. Was offered an anti inflammatory shot and discharge papers. Three days ago I tore my MCL and strained my ACL. I was told before even asking that I shouldnt expect pain medication. This is some of the worst pain I have ever been in and I cant hardly sleep because of it. Tell the .gov to back off, go back to their hole, and leave us alone.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 15th, 2015Someone from Las Vegas, NV writes:
If a person has prove that he has severe pain with all the records and the doctors feel's threats from DEA they won't give out pain medication now that should be illegal from a person suffering from real pain for the rest of there life now if the feds allow to give pain medication then now they don't want to then the people should Sue the DEA for the problems in the first place since they say there too much drugs in the street this will cause the Mexicans cartels to produced pain medication and that will be a nightmare with more drugs in the US pills are more likely to come in the US if the DEA stop this from giving it to the people that have pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 15th, 2015Someone from Howell, NJ writes:
To Thomas from Monticello in the comments below, YES IT IS TRUE! THE CDC, PROP, DEA AND OUR GOVERNMENT AMONG OTHER AGENCIES HAS BROUGHT FORTH THE MOST BARBARIC RESTRICTIONS.!! Please go to the painnewsnetwork.org site, You will read many horrific stories, ALL OF YOU IN GOVERNMENT SHAME THE HELL ON YOU!! YOU HAVE TAKEN MY QUALITY OF LIFE!! I NOW SIT HERE IN EXCRUCIATING PAIN 24/7/365!! I HAVE RIGHTS DAMMIT, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT COMING BETWEEN ME AND MY DOCTOR AND MY TREATMENT PLAN! DIVIDING PAIN INTO TWO GROUPS, CANCER AND NON CANCER IS HORRIFIC!! WE ALL SUFFER DIFFERENTLY, WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT DEBILITATING CONDITIONS THAT CAUSE US EXCRUCIATING CHRONIC INTRACTABLE PAIN. WE ALL TOLERATE MEDS DIFFERENTLY. HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHATS RIGHT FOR ME AND MY BODY!! I AM EXISTING THE WORST KIND OF HELL THERE IS! YOU ARE FORCING LEGIT PATIENTS TO END THEIR LIVES BECAUSE THE PAIN HAS WON!! I NEED TO. BE BACK ON THE DOSE I WAS ON IN ORDER TO EASE MY SUFFERING, THIS INHUMANE TREATMENT VIOLATES THE HIPPA AMD ADA LAWS!! DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE LEGIT PATIENTS AND RELY ON OPIODS TO NUMB THAT PAIN SO THEY CAN HAVE SOME QUALITY OF LIFE NEEDS TO END!! I DONT KNOW HOW MUCH MORE I CAN TAKE BEFORE I BECOME THE NEXT STATISTIC, BUT I WILL TELL YOU THIS, I REFUSE TO BE LABELED AS AN ADDICT, I AM NOT AN ADDICT, I AM CHRONICALLY ILL, OUR GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED THEIR WAR ON DRUGS SO YOU TARGET LEGIT PATIENTS!?!? YOU ALL NEED A WAKE UP CALLING, YOU THINK THE HEROIN PROBLEM IS BAD NOW!?!? WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GONNA HAPOEN WHEN YOU RIP LEGIT PATIENTS OF THEIR LIFE SAVING MEDICATIONS!?!? GOD SEES ALL, AND LET ME TELL YA SOMETHING, YOU CAN ALL TAKE YOUR PLACE ALONGSIDE THE DEVIL BECAUSE THERE IS NO PLACE FOR TERRORSITS LIKE ALL OF YOU IN HEAVEN. I HOPE ONE DAY VERY SOON YOU WILL ENDURE EXCRUCIATING PAIN, PAIN SO BAD YOU BEG GOD TO TAKE YOU!! I DID NOT FORCE THE ADDICT TO PARTY WITH PILLS AND ABUSE THEM, WHY AM I PAYING THE VERY HIGH PRICE WITH MY LIFE FOR THE MESSED UP DECISIONS OF THOSE WHO CHOSE TO ABUSE!?!? I WANT ANSWERS DAMMIT. STO SENDING ME YOU SORRY*****SYSTEM GENERATED LETTER, YOU ARE CAUSING PEOPLE TO END THEIR LIVES!?!? IS THIS THE GOVERNMENTS PLAN!?! GENOCIDE IS ALIVE AND THRIVING IN THIS COUNTRY. SHAME THE HELL ON ALL OF YOU!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 15th, 2015Someone from Charlotte, NC writes:
My wife is suffering severe pain! Give her the right to have a better life!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 15th, 2015Someone from Pensacola, FL signed.
Oct 15th, 2015Someone from Midway, FL writes:
I spend every moment of my life in pain a level 7 most days but I have many that are over a 12 I have spondelitis and bone spurs on my spine, fibro, nerve damage on both sides of my neck I may also have cushings and I can't get any help for pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 14th, 2015Someone from Pensacola, FL writes:
I agree whole-heartedly, having been just so abominably treated for the last two+ years; after being FORCED into "Pain Management", taking my "care" from my excellent doctor by whom I've been so well treated for over 15 years - This current set of pain policies has now placed me out of work, with no social life and having to depend on others for my day-to-day upkeep ... ALL of which I was well capable prior to being made an invalid by these progressively restrictive, contrived, social patient/doctor control and unwelcome intervention. What happened to HIPPA laws , and ADA laws? This petition is a good start, but we really MUST proceed to include many other agencies. ALSO - consider this: taking LEGAL pain meds from chronic pain sufferers is like taking legal weapons from just and honest Americans with the right to bear arms. If you make weapon ownership criminal, only criminals will have weapons. - Same for pain medications - if legal pain management becomes illegal, only illegal pain medications will be what is available.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 14th, 2015Someone from Brewton, AL signed.
Oct 14th, 2015Someone from Webster, TX writes:
I'm so sorry, but this is an unbelievable misuse of power. There has to be away to separate those who really have the conditions to justify the medication, and those who don't. Period! It is discriminating in largest of forms. People everywhere are suffering 24/7 with horrible pain yet someone who isn't in, and doesn't even know how that pain really feels, is able to decide that not to give them what they need to live a pain free life! DEA on doctors--- BAD PLAN! I say get back to the drawing board and come up with a better plan, one that helps people in pain instead of causing this type of inhumane punishment making their pain much worse. GOD BLESS ALL THE PAIN SUFFERS EVERYWHERE.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 14th, 2015Someone from Webster, TX signed.
Oct 14th, 2015Someone from Monticello, KY writes:
My DR. after said she could"nt write my usual meds.nomore,because they passed a law the first of the year,she had wrote them for years.Is this true or is she afraid or lying. It"s been really hard on me.Someone PLEASE contact me where I can tell more of the story.OKREPORT COMMENTS
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