First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Dec 28th, 2014Someone from Zephyrhills, FL signed.
Dec 28th, 2014Someone from Rockwood, MI writes:
I am 100% Disabled Vietnam Veteran and have been since 1993. In 1972 medically dis-charged with a 30% disability from U.S. Air Force. My prescription in September 2014 was the real pain reliever Hydrocodone 10/325. Now in October and November the "imitation pain reliever" is what had to pick up after my appt. with my Doctor at the Pharmacy. After getting back home I had taken 1 tablet and I knew it wasn't a pain reliever after all. Last October was my last real prescription of Hydrocodone 10/325. No one at the VA Pharmacy nor would my Doctor wouldn't explaine to me what a class 3 or a class 2 drug meant. Also having Severe Tinnitus, I'm not able to take a "NSAID" it causes like a screaming effect in both of my ears. And who prescribed my Prescription ? A doctor employed by the Veterans Administration and always doing his/her best. I do ask questions about any Medication I take.!Dec 28th, 2014Someone from Springfield, IL signed.
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Dec 28th, 2014Someone from New York, NY writes:
In the Ukrane there is a 50mg,. limit on morphine the oldest pain killer known to man. People have used it for centuries for controlling severe pain. No one want's to just wake up one day and say oh gee I feel like going on opiods so I can just float through life. This is the buggest lie out propaganda machine is pushing. I stopped taking pain medication for a year and my physical condition became life threatening simply because I was not able to do the exercise that my conditi9on needs or I will end up in a wheel chair. For gods sake I am fighrting this horrible disease with every thing I have, and believe me I'm probably stronger than most of you but if I don't have some pain medication to take the edge off of the pain I might as well just take a gun to my head, a lot of people will be forced into this scenario. I cant think of any other illness that is treated with such distain and ignorance. Ignorance even in the medical community for Christ sake if a person is in pain and they need strong medicine and you won't give it to them it is the same as torture. What have we become how ignorant we are when it comes to chronic pain. These idiot doctors are so stupid they don't even believe it exists unless the patient has cancer of course. Everyone shold watch the you tube video about the Eukrane and 50mg limit of morphine and see how some people sleep with a gun under their pillow in case the pain get's too bad. The way we are treating legitimate pain pateints is the same as communism. I thought we were living in a free country. You punish the pain patient because Mrs Smith has a junkie for a son how does this make any sense Another thing that is very strange is how come most people in the united States have never heard of HEANTOS?? An all natural treatment for opiate addiction???? God help anyone who ends up in chronic severe pain as it is then you will know how society and even family and friends abandon you because you need to take an opiate to try to live a somewhat normal life. This is a crime against humanity HEANTOS look it upREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 28th, 2014Someone from Pensacola, FL signed.
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Dec 27th, 2014Someone from Sparks, NV writes:
The Veterans Administration has turned it's back on Vets who have chronic pain. Never serve your country. If you get hurt they won't help or care.REPORT COMMENTS
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Dec 27th, 2014Someone from Natick, MA writes:
When is Enough Enough The DEAs Response on drug control is ridiculous All they are doing is sending legitamate law abiding pain patients to the streets to relieve the pain and withdrawls. Something needs to be done. I myself have chose to stop seeing any doctors. and i have diabetes High BP and high Cholestorol..If they cant treat me as a whole patient then to hell with them. I have been on chronic pain meds 180 MG per day for years. Im not going into the whole needing increases due to drug tolerance. Also why am i forced to pay Health Ins. if i dont intend on seeing these bunch of phony control freak doctors.Afraid to write scripts for fear of Big Brother looking over ther,e shoulders.Thanks DEA i will now need to find my relief on the streets.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 26th, 2014Someone from Natick, MA writes:
When is Enough Enough The DEAs Response on drug control is ridiculous All they are doing is sending legitamate law abiding pain patients to the streets to relieve the pain and withdrawls. Something needs to be done. I myself have chose to stop seeing any doctors. and i have diabetes High BP and high Cholestorol..If they cant treat me as a whole patient then to hell with them. I have been on chronic pain meds 180 MG per day for years. Im not going into the whole needing increases due to drug tolerance. Also why am i forced to pay Health Ins. if i dont intend on seeing these bunch of phony control freak doctors.Afraid to write scripts for fear of Big Brother looking over ther,e shoulders.Thanks DEA i will now need to find my relief on the streets.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 25th, 2014Someone from Lolo, MT writes:
My doctor tells me my pain is worse that metastasized bone cancer from the Adhesive Arachnoiditis I suffer. I never know if I will get the pain medication the doctor prescribes for me because of the Justice department pressure on pharmacies. I am 61 and have never been arrestedREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 25th, 2014Someone from Canton, IL signed.
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Dec 24th, 2014Someone from Goshen, OH writes:
There will be many chronic pain patients ending their lives early. My spinal cord is being smashed with spinal stenosis. I worked 20 years in pain without seeing a dr because of this behavior toward pain patients. Finally I had no choice and had to go to a dr. I have 14 major chronic pain issues and one pill a day and then one pill for breakthrough pain is a laugh. I spent Christmas eve alone because I was in too much pain to leave. I have left the house to go to the Dr and to get food and that's all I can manage to do. There will be an abundance of people aplying for disability because you are not giving them pain meds so they can continue to contribute to society. It should be easy to figure out who the drug seekers are and who the real pain patients are. Get it figured out before you have have mass suicides and mass overdoses from desperate pain patients with credibility seeking any way to stay out of pain to keep from suicidal tendencies to resolve a chronic pain problem that never does go away. It is mental and physical abuse that you are putting credible pain patients through. No one wakes up and says I want to be a chronic pain patient for the rest of my life and I want everyone to treat me like I am a bad person because I have to try to live day to day. No one understands or cares what chronic pain is until it happens to them.REPORT COMMENTS
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Dec 24th, 2014Someone from Las Cruces, NM writes:
I live in Las Cruces, NM, a city 35 minutes away from El Paso, TX which is directly next to the Ciudad Juares, Mexico. The DEA in this region has been particularly nasty in their behavior towards pain management doctors and clinics. They came from El Paso/a different state, to my city in 2012 and railroaded an absolutely wonderful doctor-MY doctor who was a Neurologist/Psychiatrist/Pain Managment physician. He had close to 5,000 patients because there are only a handful of pain management doctors in Las Cruces. He was extremely well educated in pain Managment, and provided me with a regimen of medications that was absolutely superb in keeping my chronic pain from Lupus, Peripheral Neuropathy, and Psoriatic Arthritis. My pain from this disease Lupus and other mentioned ailments has prevented me from leading a normal life in every way. I cannot work, have lost contact with all friends and my relationship with my life partner has faded into more of a friendship like roommates. The pain I experience is brutal and I daily consider suicide, which truly is in reality now the only way to escape the nightmare that is now my life. About my former doctor, the DEA decided to go after him because he was apparently the #1 prescriber of pain medication in the state of NM. Someone has to be #1. In early 2011 there was suddenly a sign up in the waiting room, that wrote: Please ask the receptionist before you use the bathroom if a urine sample is required of you today. Refusal to provide a sample if requested will result in your appointment cancelled and rescheduled, and you may not see the doctor; At first after I was asked to give a sample under this duress, I asked why they were doing this. I was told by a supposed new employee of my doctor (who turned out to be a DEA employee) that they just wanted to better ensure that the specific medications I was taking were at proper levels in my system. They said that they were just checking the levels of medication to see if the medications were right for me...as if I couldn't just tell them if my medication was working or not. My doctor told me from the first time I was forced to give a urine sample that he had NO interest in my urine, that he didn't request it and that it was the DEA behind it that was collecting the samples. They did not follow proper laboratory procedures, there was no chain of custody either. Also, they did not just check for the specific medications I was on. They ran a screen for 17 various illegal schedule 1 drugs, every schedule 2 narcotic medication and some schedule 3 medications. The lab bills all were always over $1,000USD and my insurance was not paying out for these tests because they were not medically necessary. I have ended up with several thousand dollars of unpaid laboratory services billed to me and eventually have been turned over to collection agencies for inability to pay. As each appointment one after another since the supposedly random screens began, I was forced to provide uriREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 24th, 2014Someone from Cowansville, PA writes:
I am dealing with this issue with my elderly father. He has been through alot over the years a a coal mining accident that pretty much severed his leg and a motorcycle accident that damaged his other leg nd shorter his abdomen never complained about the pain and now that he fell and hurt his hip and has complained about pain no doctor will help him help they say that he needs a hip replacement and or injections but they can't do it to a wound but in the meantim I don't understand why they let my 78 years old suffer ithey should all be ashamed of themselvesREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 24th, 2014Someone from Magnolia, TX writes:
My "Doctor", I say loosely since he is choosing to avoid treating me, has labeled me as drug seeking without any evidence of such behavior. I was recently diagnosed with a Labral tear in my hip, tendonitis of the hip and bursitis of the hip. I have had to live with severe pain for 5 months because without repeated test results confirming the diagnosis I was given originally 5 months ago, after a fall down the stairs,I was seen to be "faking" or just looking to score pain meds. What may have bean just the cartiledge tear has become a far more complex and painful problem because doctors are freaked out the moment they hear " I am in pain". I have been on absolutely NO pain medicine in the last 5 months. I am on a once daily NSAID. This is abuse. I am terrified of what to expect after my hip surgery.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 23rd, 2014Someone from Wichita, KS writes:
Every other type of treating my pain has been tried & didn't help!! I have no more control over what meds help me than how strong an antibiotic needs to be to stop an infection! I can't even walk now & have an electric scooter!! When my pain is controlled well enough I can walk at least some. I can't even go to church anymore!! I have to much pain!! This is beyond Ridiculous!! We had a local politician who mouthed off about this very thing- then guess what?! He got ill & now has severe chronic pain & Now he's crying for our side now, but also because he's in so much pain!! Then to top things off: yes pharmacies get into the act like they must sit around and have meetings about How they're gonna catch the next big drug ring by overly scrutinizing prescriptions. But if that wasnt bad enough by lying, holding onto prescriptions & even bullying drs to change them!! If you want to be a cop or DEA agent- then go apply for a job there!! Of course precautions should be taken- but these kinds of things should be criminal!! I wouldn't be surprised if some pharmacies get sued for this kind of behavior!! As if U/As (urine sample tests) at a drs office don't make you feel like you're being treated like a drug addict- now pharmacies are limited as to how much of these pain meds they can even order!! Come on, really?! I only wish there was a way to measure how much pain you're in & that maybe drs & pharms & the other people in control of these unhelpful limitations!!! I can guarantee it'd be enough pain to knock you down and make you scream too!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 23rd, 2014Someone from Garden City, ID writes:
I've had intractable pain since 2004 due to three failed back surgeries and spinal injections leading to Arachnoiditis. Since 2004, I have been able to reduce my narcotic usage in half, yet I feel like I'm being punished. I've been OK with a pain contract to make sure I'm not going to other doctors to get pain meds, but each year the DEA has forced my pain doctor to require UAs to prove I'm using my medication. I can no longer get three month mail order prescriptions and must visit the doctor once a month leading to extra expenses of using local pharmacies, UA expenses, doctor expenses and transportation costs. It's as if the DEA has attacked me for their unsuccessful enforcement actions. FIRST DO NO HARM! The extra expenses has forced me in to a deeper depression and more anxiety and it get worse every year. DEA, don't blame me... I didn't cause this problem.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 22nd, 2014Someone from Austin, TX writes:
when policy ties the hands of doctors, they no longer practice medicine, they practice policy. when a pain contract instills fear instead of hope it is an abuse of the patient, there is something wrong when doctors and er rooms and hospitals are in fear of their livelihood and the patient is the one who pays for it with their livelihood....REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 22nd, 2014Someone from Saint Petersburg, FL writes:
There is something seriously wrong when a society denies relief to their citizens who suffer in pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 22nd, 2014Someone from Winlock, WA writes:
Both my Husband John M. Hall and I are in Chronic Pain. The clinic that we had been going to for 20 years has changed to a concierge type clinic, and will not treat any patient in Chronic Pain. I have tried to find a doctor in Lewis County, and no one will help us. I have had 17 back surgeries, Arachnoiditis, Obturator Neuropathy, Arthritis, both left & right S/I joints displaced, a tumor at L2, Spondylitis, and Thalassemia. My Husband John M. Hall has severe Arthritis, both knee replacements, Lymphedema which causes his legs & feet to swell up, & he can hardly walk. We cannot find anyone in our area that will treat our conditions with any Pain Medications. It is not fair to lump us with the people that abuse their pain meds. Our doctors are afraid to give us the necessary pain medications, because the DEA has placed them on such a harsh conditions to treat their patients in Chronic Pain. We are in our 70's and it we should not be restricted on our pain medications, because the doctors are fearful of retaliation from the DEA if they help their patient in Chronic Pain. It is just not right. Each case should be validated on the patients poor health and the need for pain medications. This needs to be correct NOW !!! It does not need a long study to decide if we can receive our pain medications. If a study is required, by the time it is approved, we shall be dead. Please act on this matter now, and do not make us suffer any longer for your decision to help us. Thank you, & God bless, John & Florence HallREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 22nd, 2014Someone from Las Cruces, NM signed.
Dec 22nd, 2014Someone from Harrisonburg, VA writes:
I am so depressed from the chronic pain, and more depressed with unimaginable abusive doctors, and abusive pharmacists. I cringe when I have to go see them both. Why has our government done this to us? I cannot even find an attorney to help.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 22nd, 2014Someone from Madison Heights, MI writes:
it is worse at the VA Doctors are now afraid to give any help to us Vet'sREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 22nd, 2014Someone from Henryville, IN writes:
I have been treated for pain since 2008 , after having 3 back surgeries and rhumetoid arthritis as well as spinal stenosis I was considering a fourth surgery on my lumbar spine. Recently found out I am unexpectedly pregnant and now no doctors will treat me for my chronic pain that I've been treated for four many years. With depression and anxiety as well as quality of life and family situations getting worse everyday due to pain. I am not sure where to turn for help pregnancy is only making my pain more unbearable that could simply be treated but due to new laws myself and unborn child are at more risk of having problems physically and mentally due to non treatment.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 22nd, 2014Someone from Spring Hill, FL writes:
15 years + chronic pain sufferer. It has become increasingly difficult to fill my prescriptions for pain medicine at the pharmacy. Sometimes they don't have it and they say that they are not allowed to tell customers when they will get it. I was told check back every day although they can not tell you over the phone!. A chronic pain patient has to physically go to the pharmacy everyday (without pain medication) to see if they have the medicine that you need to live a somewhat normal life, does this make sense to anyone? I can hardly walk without pain meds and I am in extreme pain. Some days just getting out of bed to use the bathroom is super hard and they want me to go to the pharmacy? Really? This war on Drugs has turned into a war on chronic pain sufferers. Unless you've been there it's hard to understand I know but come on we need help and compassion and things to be easier, not more difficult, I have enough challenges already thank you very much! My health issues are medically documented for over 15 years, I am 53 years old with numerous surgeries and treatments under my belt at this point and I really hope things get easier and I will be treated with Respect, Compassion and enabled to keep some level of Dignity as I travel through this life into my Golden years. Things have got to change.REPORT COMMENTS
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