First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Mar 24th, 2015Someone from Olympia, WA signed.
Mar 24th, 2015Someone from Ninety Six, SC writes:
I was a nurse for 27 years and taught my patients not to allow pain greater than 4/10 before medicating. This keeps the pain at a tolerable level. It also decreases the anxiety and tenseness when forced to stay in pain. The chronic pain patient deserves to be treated with respect. I have an MRI that reveals bone on bone. In other words, there are no vertebrae to cushion the back. My Internist strongly inferred my seeking drugs. I was humiliated and so angry with you and everyone else impacting proper patient care.Mar 24th, 2015Someone from Pacific Grove, CA writes:
You are making people that already suffer, suffer more. We now spend more money, more time off work, and the injustice of this is infuriating. What crime have I committed? The crime of arthritis.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 24th, 2015Someone from Albuquerque, NM writes:
please hear us! Pay attention to this awful"UNTREATMENT"!!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 24th, 2015Someone from Piedmont, OK writes:
Been on Tramadol for over 25 years for IBS and later for Spinal Stenosis. Personal Physician (PA) referred me to Pain management Dr. because Phys supervisor would not take care of long term pain meds. Tramadol is a Schedule IV med, but Drs. are requiring Schedule II tests. Every visit costs $50 copay and then a $400 copay for the drug test. Totally unnecessary, but due to the cowards in the DEA being so lazy they want to sit at a computer and analyze prescription drug use instead of taking care of the problem on the street.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 24th, 2015Someone from Bartlesville, OK writes:
I have been suffering for two years now with a torn rotator cuff,"3tears". All the doctors will give me is ibuprofen 800, and only after flipping out on him. The worst thing is, is that I'm allergic to hydrocodone, cant take whats on dea list anyhow. So, i got to ask," WHAT THE HELL?"REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 23rd, 2015Someone from Oklahoma City, OK signed.
Mar 23rd, 2015Someone from Longview, TX writes:
I didn't realize there were so many who felt just as I do. I have considered suicide many times due to inadequate treatment by doctors and abusive treatment from their staff and pharmacists. I was sent to a pill mill for my meager allotment of medication. When I tried to find a new primary care the current doctor twice told the new doctors I was attempting to secure that I was doctor shopping. Now the pill mill has been shut down by dea, primary care refuses any help and I am left to withdrawal. With my uncontrolled blood pressure issues maybe withdrawal will do the trick. The dea is doing nothing but hurting innocent pain sufferers. Addicts will always get their drugs.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 23rd, 2015Someone from Amarillo, TX writes:
The government is worried about the thousands that OD'd and died from combining HCPs with other drugs? Hmmm.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 23rd, 2015Someone from Oklahoma City, OK signed.
Mar 23rd, 2015Someone from Edmond, OK signed.
Mar 23rd, 2015Someone from Troy, MI writes:
100 million American voters suffer chronic pain. 20-odd thousand Americans committed suicide or accidentally overdosed on opioids over the last decade and no longer vote. All of us are unhappy. And the 100 million of us must be allowed to treat ourselves, no matter what is done for the accident and suicide problem.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 23rd, 2015Someone from Raleigh, NC signed.
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Mar 23rd, 2015Someone from Muncie, IN writes:
I am a retired U.S. Army Paratrooper and was badly injured in 1993 during a parachute training accident. Since my retirement I have had multiple feet and back surgeries with the V.A. telling me that nothing else can be done for me. I have been taking opoid pain medicine since the 1990's and was able to function with reduced pain for the most part until now since the DEA has changed the class structure of medicines. Now the V.A. has stopped pain medicine prescriptions and recommends pain seminars. What a crock this is as I have been going through all of this with the V.A. since 1995 when I retired from the U.S. Army. I have been abandoned by the people who are supposed to look after the care of veterans. I just give up.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 22nd, 2015Someone from Palmer Lake, CO writes:
Not treating pain is bad medicine and once those who are not being treated start suing, then they will look at how they are demeaning these patients.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 22nd, 2015Someone from Mexico Beach, FL signed.
Mar 21st, 2015Someone from Klamath Falls, OR writes:
Personally I think the DEA has too much control. It's all Government control. I ask the same questin as a person in Ashland- Is it a new way to control the population? Let them commit suicide? Who cares? I understand the drug users/abusers. But the honest truth is there are people out here who DO NOT ABUSE our medication and we still get treated terrible. We NEED to change these situations! Help!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 21st, 2015Someone from Deland, FL signed.
Mar 21st, 2015Someone from Ashland, OR writes:
What's the answer? What can be done about the abuse of chronic pain sufferers? I have considered ending my life, if my only option is constant pain. Is this a new method of "population control"? Let physicians treat the patient without fear. Let the "war on drugs" target the crooks...not the sufferers. Shame on you, DEA.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 21st, 2015Someone from Canby, OR signed.
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Mar 20th, 2015Someone from Dorena, OR writes:
stop the drug wars on doctors our vets and all pain patients . Forcing nuclear isotopes into our food chain results in horrific death and suffering as seen from all life forms contaminated . Pain management needs to lower the cost of opiates , stop acephedamine , as it destroys the liver . Stop the lies as it is the right of all citizens to take care of their pain due to horrific conditions . All plants should be legal as the salt wars , just taking back god given rights to the creation is a start .Teaching about addiction is the only responsable obligation on this issue , denying pain control is a sin to humanityREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 20th, 2015Someone from Hermosa Beach, CA signed.
Mar 19th, 2015Someone from Antioch, CA signed.
Mar 19th, 2015Someone from Fuquay Varina, NC writes:
I suffer horrible leg pain everyday from a fall that herniated two discs. I have already had two failed back surgeries. I have told my doctor that the medication she has me on helps some, but I am still in so much pain. She refuses to give me anything else or to try a different medication. The only thing I am offered are injections that I had so many of...they don't help any. It's just a waste of money for the insurance company. The pain keeps me from doing housework, doing fun things with my family, etc. I am even bedridden at times because of the pain. I wish instead of telling the doctors not to to treat patients with the medications that help, please insist that they treat their patients with what needs to be used so they can lives their lives and contribute to the community.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 19th, 2015Someone from Louisville, KY writes:
Dr Jaime guerreo louisville ky and his other office in jefferonsonville indiana,this dr was very unfairly treated by DEA,arressted,now to the big coursts with alot of hear say,just because he wasn't a rich dr. He was smart,not in a poor area,a moderate office,so he was targeted, he was just the poorest is all,if he wasn't there to be used as a example they would find the next in line,He is considered a young Dr,in his early 40's but a dam good one in my opinion,and others i have talked to also,he graduated from college at the top of his class. He was chosen out by the DEA because he was low on the totom pole in the business less than 8 years,he was no back alley cronic pain dr, he was a young early 40's dr that was really helping people in pain,he in my opinion of all my times i observed him and people in the office, he helped the really in need of. I was one of his first patients,when he started his practice on south 1st street, then he got a bit bigger and moved to off chestnut street in louisville to broadway in louisville,and then an office in jeffersonville indiana, he lived in sellersburg indiana. Dr G is a good Dr,honest, caring and kept me out of pain the past almost 8 years,i wasn't drugedlike I feel now,i always took the 3 little pills a day he gave me for my cronic pain condion and never asked for more and he never pushed more.He was nice to me and always praised me as his first patient, and he treated me with respect and I like wise. I lived a better life,now I 'm not,I'am left in pain and with a new pain Dr my dear 20 year primary dr got for me,the thing is I know that he doesn't want me,he is stressed from the DEA also,he is richer older dr, he has a prominant office,so in my opinion he is safe,for now, but I feel he is very very stressed.,from the DEA OF course.to change patients pain meds to lower doses lower schedule drugs, i couldnt believe what I was hearing and what i was given i will leave that out,dont want to be known,i need my current dr.I feel I am at least blessed to have a lesser pain dr,but in pain again. I most definitly feel like i will me thrown to the curb very fast,the DEA is probally forcing these pain dr's that are given refferals from general drs with good insurance patients and I mean MEDICARE patients YES thats me,My new dr he is giving me all different pain medication only 8 different pills a day to Dr.G's 3 plus epidual injections,which Dr g did also, in which guerreo did,doesnt make sense so many pils to dr G's 3,that worked,it's all in the name and the DEA's eyes.the medication I am on now is considered a regualr pain medication to the DEA, but leaves me tired,ect,unable to do what i did when i was dr g's patient,I cant work now, what dr,g had me on was only 3 small milgram pills a day and i went down to 2 a day not long ago,was working,not now, not since he has been taken out of his practice and used as a target. All This started over government take over, but they took over in the wrong place, they aREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 19th, 2015Someone from Edgartown, MA writes:
I survived a deadly car accident in 2002. Over the past 13 years I have had 11 major surgeries from my big toes to my hips. Though each surgery fixes a particular acute pain problem, the post surgical chronic pain remains as the new or fused joint effects the other parts of the limbs. I have had thoughts of suicide over the recent fear of prescribing the very drugs designed to to treat pain. Please help stop pressuring doctors from doing their ethical responsibilities out of fear of prosecution.REPORT COMMENTS
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