First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jun 20th, 2014Someone from Jacksonville, FL signed.
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Jun 20th, 2014Someone from East Rutherford, NJ writes:
As a person who suffers from chronic and system sarcoidosis, including neurosarcoidosis, I have changed from a healthy active person who practiced law for 31 years into a person who suffers from varying degrees of pain 24/7. I agree that drug addiction needs to be combatted but not at the expense of people who suffer from debilitating pain. Based on my research, the DEA's new regulations have gone too far. Doctors should not be afraid to prescribe. Pharmacies should not be allowed to refuse to fill legitimately issued prescriptions simply because they do not agree with a doctor's decision. One cannot swing the pendulum all the way to the other side and proclaim it's necessary to do so to keep addicts from getting their hands on pain meds. Addicts will aways find a way. The pendulum needs to find a center position that protects legitimately ill pain patients while punishing the abusers or better yet, providing addicts with better and more comprehensive opportunities for rehabilitation. Had you told me six years ago that I would be diagnosed with an orphan disease that causes chronic debilitating pain leaving me unable to work and requiring me to apply for and receive SSDI I would not have believed it. Without appropriate pain management I'd be virtually bedridden with absolutely no quality of life. A balance needs to be found. Attempts to stem the tide of addiction in ways that cause those legitimately in need of pain medication to suffer is not the answer.Jun 20th, 2014Someone from Medina, NY writes:
In effect the DEA Registration has become a Letter of Marque and Reprisal and doctors have essentially been conscripted to enforce the letter of marque. I would add that among the skyrocketing deaths from heroin, there are virtually no chronic pain patients,,,,,only addicts. The DEA has failed miserably to stop the scourge of addiction but it has succeeded mightily in imposing a life of exceeding misery among their wrongfully marqued targets.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 20th, 2014Someone from Matawan, NJ writes:
I am nearly 67 years old and I was diagnosed with Arachnoiditis, a rare disease which involves the clumping of nerve roots from L4 to S1. There is no cure for this progressive, debilitation Neuropathic disease which over time causes scar tissue, herniated disks, CES, damage to major organs, neuropathy, and spreads throughout my whole body and mind, from head to toe, front to back, inside and out. The only so called treatment is Pain Management. And Yes I think of suicide daily because that is the only sure thing that will relieve my pain. How can you people be so very cruel to even suggest withholding anti-inflammatory pain medication and other medications used specifically to treat Nerve Pain?????REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 20th, 2014Someone from Stamford, CT writes:
Doctors should not be able to treat their patients in a way that makes them sicker than they are. Palliative care for victims of chronic pain must continue to be available for those who need it in the strengths in which they need it.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 20th, 2014Someone from West Baldwin, ME signed.
Jun 20th, 2014Someone from Homosassa, FL writes:
The DEA has no right in my medical records or in my doctor's offices.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 20th, 2014Someone from Hudson, NY writes:
My partner has degenerative disk disease and no doctor in the US is willing to perform surgery on him. He has done all kinds of alternative treatments, but the only thing that keeps him from being bedridden is very high levels of opiate pain medicine. We tried to fulfill a lifelong dream of moving cross country, only to find he could not find any doctor to treat his pain because of their fear of the DEA. We moved from Seattle to Montana to find reasonable care, but the doctors there wanted to take him off his medicine completely and use their magical "mind over matter" philosophy. My possessions are still in Seattle, I had to leave the best job I ever had and am now unemployed and homeless after searching the country for pain relief for my partner and we are back where we didn't want to be, just for a doctor who is willing to treat him. No Americans should have their freedom so greatly infringed upon as we have. Punishing those in pain for the actions of unsupervised kids is foolish and deadly. The "unabusable" pills that the pharmaceutical companies have been pressured into making for the DEA cause pain and ulcers in their patients who have to use them. Stop victimizing those already in pain. Stop putting them through the trauma of being treated like criminals if they want to stop hurting.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 20th, 2014Someone from Loxahatchee, FL writes:
i have a pain management doctor in business for over 30 years.He was reffered to me someone very reputable.I am self pay because of accident settlement finished .I have had only 1 prescription filled in the past year and had to change my occupation or stop working completly.This is an outrage and someone needs to be held responsibleREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 20th, 2014Someone from Naples, FL signed.
Jun 20th, 2014Someone from Austin, TX writes:
It is cruel and heartbreaking to see how my daughter, who suffers from chronic pain, has been treated by her "pain management" doctor. He is too fearful to give her the pain medication that allows her to function as a normal person. She has been given suboxone as her only medical alternative, even though she is not a drug addict. The side effects are horrible, and she finally decided to suffer with the pain because the side effects were so bad. All she wants is a chance at a normal life and it is being denied to her because our government thinks they know more than the doctors who are trained to heal and relieve suffering. It is disgraceful. How do the people making these laws possibly think it will help our society? Drug seekers who abuse the drugs will not stop, while people who have true pain are having their quality of life destroyed. I pray the lawmakers open their eyes to the misery they are inflicting on others who had the misfortune to be in an accident or have an illness.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 20th, 2014Someone from Fort Payne, AL writes:
Why are you trying to KILL US by making us suffer with pain? More suicides are going to happen!! I can't live this way, nor can many others! Life wasn't this bad several years ago when I was properly treated for my pain ! STOP the DEA!! They are causing TONS of HARM to innocent patients by going after our doctors and causing the pharmacies NOT TO FILL the pain medicines! IT's been proven online that the DOJ has ordered more opium than ever before in history so WHY? are so many people suffering in pain now? Is the govt using it?? instead of patients who need it??AMERICANS need pain medicines and we need our healthcare providers to feel comfortable prescribing it to us! AMERICA has Pain!! Where is your COMMON SENSE?? THE IOM has Told you over 100 MILLION adults are suffering but CONGRESS chooses to allow the DEA to STOP our PAIN care!! STOP inferring with our personal lives ! WE have rights and they are being VIOLATED!! American RIGHTS!! Where are they?? GET Rid of the DEA or send them back into the JUNGLE!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 20th, 2014Someone from Conway, SC signed.
Jun 20th, 2014Someone from Kernersville, NC writes:
Tramadol is not a very effective. Please stop taking away things MD have gone to school for years. No offense but the DEA are not MD's and we patients deserve the right to be treated by our MD that is best for our diseases. You and the governments are not trained to make these decisions.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 20th, 2014Someone from Bakersfield, CA writes:
doctors like ashok parmar in bakersfield needs to go this doctor is abusive, he disallows paients wheelchair assistance, he cant stand people that are disabled and in need of professioal care, a true quack. please google dr. parmar bakersfield under fire the first or second article click and scroll down dr parmar is exposed by a narcotic named o that is deadly and highly neglegent, dr parmar wears $2500.00 suits and drives a $80,000 bmw while hes killing paitents. but he ll load up your car with pain medicaions and when your hooked on them, he plays god and stips them from his paitents while he screams at them.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 20th, 2014Someone from Douglasville, GA writes:
No body knows what we go through , I wish they could just live in my body for a week then go to a Dr. to seek help just to be humiliated and turned away. All I want is to live a fruitful life, so tired of living in pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 20th, 2014Someone from Pooler, GA writes:
Did it ever occur to lawmakers that many autoimmune diseases are incurable despite treatment w/ newer biologic drugs? When one's immune system attacks its own body on the cellular level chronic pain is inevitable. When those of us 'end up' on NARCOTICS, a most derogatory term for opioid pain medication we have run through all the other options and are these are the last resort. Nobody wants to be dependent on a medication but while they don't kill all the pain NOR give a high, they allow us some semblance of a life w/ family and friends we would otherwise not have. Have a heart, too many legitimate patients are suffering in this war on prescription drug abuse. More education and treatment are needed not drastic cuts in the supply of pain medication, A patient of a medical center should not have to badger the director of outpatient pharmacies in order to receive medication that has been filled there for over 4 yrs, this is just reprehensible but that is where the DEA has taken this issue, we are not the enemy here, we are your brother, your wife, maybe even you if your health does not hold out, think about that for a second the next time a 'get tough' on drug abuse bill comes along. CoonhoundREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 19th, 2014Someone from West Lafayette, IN signed.
Jun 19th, 2014Someone from Austin, TX writes:
My dream is to be able to work full time and go back to school. I'm 26 years old and that's all I want...unfortunately that would require the pain backing off some. The doctors have no interest in any of that. Trying everyday not to give up.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 19th, 2014Someone from Camden, NY writes:
I too am opposed to the new system of restrictions. I understand that there is a problem out there that needs to be dealt with, but i feel as though everyone is being treated as guilty. What happened to being ?innocent until proven guilty?? My wife has three herniated disks and has a surgery scheduled, which required us jumping through many hoops to even be able to get a referral to a surgeon. Her primary care physician offered her a 10day prescription of tylenol3 just over two months ago and she too had to was made to feel like a criminal by being made to sign off on pill counts and drug tests. Now keep in mind tylenol with codeine is something they give children as a cough suppressant but my 26 y/o wife is interrogated and given the run around every time she calls to get new prescription written. It seems to help her enough so that she can function and she is just trying to get by (continue working, and take care of her children) until her surgery?why is all of this extra stress necessary for the honest people out there just looking to legally control their pain?to New York State, i would like to say that although your intentions of controlling substance abuse is noble that by making criminals out of innocent people and making it more difficult for honest people to get what they need i believe you are making more problems then you are resolving. I believe that people will find what they need whether the doctor prescribes it for them as it should be or if they have to find it by other means(buying pills on the street). Criminalize those people that have abused the system, not those that are innocent.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 18th, 2014Someone from Ashburnham, MA writes:
my doctor told me that due to the new government and insurance guidelines as of 1/1/2015 will no longer be prescribing any controlled pain medication for long term pain two failed back surgeries ten epedural injections still in painREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 18th, 2014Someone from Ashburnham, MA writes:
my doctor told me that due to the new government and insurance guidelines as of 1/1/2015 will no longer be prescribing any controlled pain medication for long term pain two failed back surgeries ten epedural injections still in painREPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 17th, 2014Someone from Riverside, CA writes:
I am not a criminal, no an abuser. I suffer every day from pain - and I am treated terribly from doctors, pharmacists, and others. Gov over reach! DEA is too lazy to find the violators so the punish everyone suffering for the acts of a few. Imagine going to prison, because your neighbor robbed a bank! It is like that!REPORT COMMENTS
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