First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jul 26th, 2015Someone from Sugar Grove, IL signed.
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Jul 26th, 2015Someone from Carrollton, OH writes:
Got sick of seeing drugees get pain pills for stupid crap pain, and me who has been ****ed up by surgeons not wanting to try just ONE MORE TEST, to to find a REAL CAUSE, so I have screws and rodsin my spine because of a disc that shouldn't have come out because chart stated ABNORMAL AORTA FOR PERSON OF THIS AGE...was 36... Then having dr Gregory Boone put 2sheets of mesh over a BIFEMORAL BYPASS and 8 days later having the mesh removed in emergency surgery along with what flesh and muscle it was touching....I give up on trying to get things for pain, was given morphinethat didn't work I DON'T BOTHER ANYONE ANYMORE..... MORE RESPONSIBILTY PUT ON SURGEONS THAT DO THE DAMAGE THAT CAUSES THE PAIN WE HAVE......Jul 26th, 2015Someone from Austin, IN signed.
Jul 26th, 2015Someone from Forestville, NY writes:
As someone who has been in pain since I was a teenager and broke my lower back, I am so frustrated at the hoops I have to jump through to get prescriptions filled. People who haven't dealt with pain every single day for years have no idea how soul-crushing and life destroying pain can be. Then add being treated like a criminal or drug addict at the pharmacy and doctors office, it's easy to see why the suicide rate is so high for chronic pain sufferers.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 26th, 2015Someone from Mechanicsburg, PA signed.
Jul 26th, 2015Someone from San Antonio, TX writes:
Pain is the big money maker. I've met two doctors who truly tried to help in 4 1/2 years. I was given up to 8 Prrcocet per day plus 50 to 75 mg Fentynol w/o anyone trying to see why I was in pain. I had to request withdrawal and succeeded until 4 1/2mos later when part of reason for pain returned. I'm too proud to stoop so low as to ask for meds because I look like a druggie. My pain was caused by doctors who got away with butchering me and filling me with mesh.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 26th, 2015Someone from Cedar Rapids, IA writes:
"Making it tougher for patients to obtain their prescriptions is not going to stop addicts from getting high. People abusing drugs are already breaking the law and it they want to get high they will find a way to do it. All these regulations do is make it tougher for responsible people to obtain the drugs they need while drug addicts continue to find new ways of getting what they want. They are already partaking in an illegal lifestyle enforcing stricter rules is something they were never worried about following to being with."REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 26th, 2015Someone from Dallas, TX writes:
I am 31 and have dealt with chronic pain since I was 10, due to spinal and bodily injuries in gymnastics, sports and genetics. I have an extra bone in both my feet that rub my Achilles against them and cause inflammation, pain and cripples me at times. I have osteoarthritis, degenerative discs, fibromyalgia, a bulging disc thay pinches my sciatic nerve, nerve damage in my ankles, legs, lower/upper back and neck, hip pain/frozen hip, a tailbone that goes 45 degrees the wrong way, and many unknowns I haven't been able to afford with trying to treat my currently known issues. After 20 years of coping and non opiate treatments that didn't really help, I decided to go to a pain management doctor after every doctor I met treated me like I was too young and didn't need anything to get me out of severe chronic pain that disabled me at times and constantly made me consider ending my pain. You are treated like you are a second rate human and that you should just suck it up, as if the doctors would just suck it up in your position. I have never abused my meds and because of all this nonsense with the dea playing god and intimidating doctors and pharmacists, I still can't get decent meds to relieve my pain. I am treated like a liar or I have to meet this exact criteria to receive opiates, which are the only medication known to work in taking pain away. Nsaids are a joke. When you have no idea how to truly rate your pain because you are always in extreme pain all the time and it varies throughout your entire body, you shouldn't have to constantly prove your need and endure endless humiliating judgement, interrogations, looks of derision because you look healthy and are young. The epidemic here is not a war on drugs, but control over who deserves them. The dea are NOT doctors, as they said when I spoke with them regarding a pharmacist refusing to full my meds all of a sudden after 5 years with them and one visit from the dea threatening to close them down. You will never ever understand chronic pain and what it does to that person until you have experienced it, even if someone close to you has. I have been told it's illegal to prescribe opiates for fibromyalgia, that they only prescribe hydrocodone 10mg, which is like baby asperin sometimes, except to people with cancer, that I have to constantly get MRIs every year or so to prove I still need pain meds, even though they know what I have will never go away and the damage is permanent, and that u have to pay $180 every month to get my same meds I've been on for 2 years, even though by law they could make it ever 3 months and save me lots of money I could put to other health needs. Thanks to the dea, these pain docs rape their own patients and can't really help many of them, so they don't even listen or care about the welfare of the patients they swore an oath to have their best interest in and treat to the best of their abilities and cause no harm. It's a sick game you're forced to play and life is alreadyREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 26th, 2015Someone from Canton, OH writes:
Do No Harm. By not treating chronic pain medically is surely like writing a prescription to disaster even suicide. Who are the real pushers? Could it possibly be the Doctor who refuses to treat with pain management, pushing chronic pain sufferer's to the streets?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 25th, 2015Someone from Richland, WA writes:
Why we must end the war on cannabis and fully allow people to grow their own meds. Yes, they lost the war on drugs. Because people have risen up and said enough to prohibition.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 25th, 2015Someone from Menominee, MI signed.
Jul 25th, 2015Someone from Piedmont, MO signed.
Jul 25th, 2015Someone from Los Angeles, CA writes:
Why is nothing being done about this nazi like useless failure of a terrorist group known as the DEA? Funnel 100% of their funding into education. It'll do an infinite more good than the DEA has ever done in it's entirety. Vote for only people who is against the DEA so it can be part of their campaigns.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 25th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
If I were to let my dog suffer for one day , I could face some hefty fines, not to speak of jail time these days. how do you justify this?. Are you saying we are less than an animal?. You are not God!. Or do you need some councilingREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 25th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
I have been in that cold dark silence with enough pain to want to just end it and take my chances. To those in the position to do anything more than the average citizen, Please Wake UP!. What is it going to take?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 25th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
They are the ones that need counciling Rebbeca!. Not you. Something is going to change soon.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 25th, 2015Someone from Kalkaska, MI signed.
Jul 25th, 2015Someone from Garrettsville, OH writes:
I had spinal cancer in 1993 and have suffer with much pain for years..chronic debilitating pain..I have jump through many hoops that my pain manager doctor has put me through and now she is detaining that I see a councilors at my existence. I just want to end my life that I have struggled so hard to keep.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 25th, 2015Someone from Essex, MD signed.
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Jul 24th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
Go St.Louis!. Trying to get a 10 sec spot on the locals through a donation with the big wigs. Problem is they are bombarded with the scams we get on our telecoms. A few sec on the air with someone who cares will bring the higher powers to lack some sleep as we do. We get worse every year w/o treatment. have to try while can still manage. Am bugging the hell out of bill gates!. He get no sleep till I get an answer. Get more than a few thousand signs on a commercial. But I know he will just up it to 250,000 in 15 days.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 24th, 2015Someone from Saint Louis, MO writes:
DEA lost the war on Street Drugs. So it turns its angry, defeated head towards good physicians and helpless chronic pain patients, bullying the hard working decent doctors with fear tactics, and causing the legitimate chronic pain sufferers to live in a horrible world where pain and hopelessness is a way of life, all because they have no idea how differentiate between the drug seekers and sellers, from those who truly benefit and get much needed relief from pain medicines. Please, come up with a viable way to care for the sick and pain suffering patients, while focusing on those who truly abuse the system. It takes intelligence, patience, and care, yes, but our society isn't one of barbarians where the sick, young, old, and weak are thrown to the side as in days gone by. No policing of our doctors and professionals is needed unless a crime has been committed, and what the DEA is doing is NOTHING but simple *harassment* of good people, good doctors and suffering patients. We need voices to stand up and stop such victimization when no one has done anything wrong, and we should NEVER stand for the infringement of our Constitutional rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness by allowing a medically untrained organization bully and harass the well trained professionals in the medical community by telling them how to treat patients, whether it's a matter of pain, cancer, or plain principleREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 24th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
They did not put dogs to sleep without suffering the dog until recently. The vets used a chem that stopped there heart and let the dog suffer agonizing pain of a heart attack. Per vets own words, you would be better taking a 45 cal and ending it. The 2 shots in one are still up for debate. I suppose the veterinarians are in question now. Keep it up DEA. Live by the sword....die by it!.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 24th, 2015Someone from Groveport, OH writes:
I hope someone will listen. My pursuit of happiness has been stolen from me. Years ago I used to Lorcet 10/650 4 times a day. I saw the same doctor, I have the same pharmacy for over 25 years. I am a law abiding citizen, always have been, always will be. Perhaps for those of us with chronic conditions with no cures with a good record of responsible medication can be given pain relief. I do not feel the effects except the pain is lessened. I worked, raised 3 daughters, took care of my parents and volunteered at an animal shelter. Now I sit in my home incapacitated while those around me are living. I am only 54 years old. Please do something for those of us that are being punished for Criminal's behavior. I have told my husband that when I die from taking to many OTC maybe someone will sit up and take notice. I could be a productive member of society if given the formula that worked for me for years before the Witch Hunt started. Other opioids my doctor tried me on never worked (either too strong or not strong enough). Together, we worked to see what medicine would work. I did not want to get high and I just wanted the pain to go away. I found the relief until my physician of many years moved to another state. Resistance from every doctor, I have completed every pain management technique without drugs to no avail. The PM says there is nothing left to do. I am begging you to reconsider. I heard on CSPAN the other day that more people are on disability than ever. Could this be the reason? If I were a dog they would mercifully put me to sleep. As a Human Being I deserve to live my life pain free.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 24th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
White house raises the mandatory looksy at petitions from 25,000 to 100,000 in 30 days a couple years ago. Almost as though he new we coming. Along with the other wrongs being done. The State still receives them here at least. Will start a new petition that requires WH to lower the limits to a fair level. After all, we want to be fair. We don't have the speed and money to get an impossible amount of sigs in that time. I like transparency.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 24th, 2015Someone from Chicago, IL signed.
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Jul 23rd, 2015Someone from Fort Morgan, CO writes:
As a patient who has suffered from chronic pain for over 7 years, I personally have experienced every kind of discrimination, judgement and unfair practice discharge that is mentioned above. Never mind I am a licensed RN who is well aware of the meds and possible consequences, I still am judged by pharmacists, questioned by every physical and worst of all forced to take my medications "exactly" as written, regardless of my level of pain. I broke my foot 4 days ago, waited till the weekend was over to seek care so that I could contact my "pain management doctor" and ask permission to go to the ER. Went to the ER today, was scoffed at when I told the Dr my "normal" pain meds were not working and I tried taking a double dose without relief. I am an RN and I knew my foot was broken, the Dr told me it was severely broken and referred me to a podiatrist for further treatment as he said "I will give you meds if that's what you want, but I can't treat you." When I got a Rx for stronger pain meds, I took them to the pharmacy, the pharmacist told me "you have pain meds, you need to take those, I cannot fill this till next month if you want to wait till then." Really?!?? Since when does the pharmacy get to decide what is best for me? I broke my foot!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 23rd, 2015Someone from Hampstead, NC signed.
Jul 23rd, 2015Someone from Lake City, FL writes:
Why do I have to go to four pharmacies to get my pain meds filled?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 23rd, 2015Someone from Dallas, TX writes:
I love my life in hell because of you bastards. i seriously hope all of you who put this law into place burn in hell.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 23rd, 2015Someone from Ortonville, MI signed.
Jul 23rd, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
It doesn't make since does it. All know they are not stupid. And they are not. Not by no means!. What human being would let this happen that has any kind of morals. Would you, speaking of us here ,let your neighbor suffer in pain and not go all out and try to get them treatment?. I doubt it for most of us. The overdose thing was made up by dea to keep the public on their side. Prior to 2009 it was not even hardly mentioned. New president I presume. How many drug addicts made the local news that were legit?. I speak of myself now as honest as I can so help me god. I took 3 pills every day no more no less. It worked only on the pain. Did not get me " high " in no form . I was just able to have a life with some respect. Not waiting for a good day to come along etc. I felt less dependent on others. Not a burdon on people. I was a non drinker of alcohol until this dictatorship came in. I went with severe pain for several months and the survival instints we all have kicked in. It helps but its a sad way of surviving. Many and most here did no wrong other than sneeze wrong and they declared you a pill popper. There is no med reason not give us meds that have never have no death wish and want to be independent. They should be in respect of our human nature. There is no harm in the meds for most all. NATURE OF THE BEAST I suspect. Those with wisdom will understand. To those who don't, be happy because it frightens me what the world has come to. To those who are in severe pain as I write, I do know the pain and hope you will get relief soon. Don't give the AH the satisfaction. They are not human!.REPORT COMMENTS
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