First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Feb 15th, 2014Someone from Lafayette, IN writes:
Let those of us with the healthcare licenses take care of our patients as we see fit. -
Feb 15th, 2014Someone from Lafayette, IN signed.
Feb 15th, 2014Someone from Sanford, FL signed.
Feb 15th, 2014Someone from Evans, CO writes:
Living in chronic pain without pain medication, is not a life worth living! What is it for if it's not to treat pain?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from Berkeley Heights, NJ writes:
This war on chronic pain patients has to stop. I've endured 10+ surgeries since 1997 in an effort to cure my pain, all to no avail. Pain medicine is my only option, and it is legal, so why am I treated like a criminal?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL writes:
Suicide is the only remaining option. But in my case, the problem is not the doctor but rather the pharmacy. This is not a life worth living.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from Satellite Beach, FL writes:
I suffer from Adhesive Arachnoidistis a condition CAUSED by a doctor who injected steroids into my spinal cord during an epidural steroid injection!! My Life is a living HELL! Everyday spent in horrible pain! Having to deal with dr's who one day might say too bad I don't want to treat you!! I'm NOT addicted to my pain medicine! Like a diabetic who is DEPENDENT on Insulin, so is the person with CHRONIC PAIN DEPENDENT on pain medication! I worked in Cardiac Cath for many years assisting doctors save the lives of people having heart attacks! Now I'm treated like a criminal all because a DOCTOR SCREWED UP!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from New Albany, IN writes:
You are not doctors.. quit practicing medicineREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from Philadelphia, PA signed.
Feb 15th, 2014Someone from Spencerport, NY signed.
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Feb 15th, 2014Someone from Harpursville, NY writes:
I have fibromyalgia and degenerative disk disease along with osteoarthritis and can no longer receive pain meds because of the new laws in NY state. My doctor refuses to write scripts for pain meds. I suffer every day now. Pain has become my way of life and I can no longer enjoy my life, can't keep up with my grandchildren or do simple tasks.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from Naples, FL writes:
As you can see, many people who have signed this have considered suicide rather than live the way we are living. I can't say that I have reached that point-not because my pain is not excruciating but because of my family. I have been suffering since 1989 with the worst of it during the past 4 plus years. I was forced to retire from a job I loved and that paid extremely leaving the burden of our support on my husband's shoulders. Fortunately, I have a wonderful pain management doctor who treats me like a human being and is concerned with not only my pain but my overall health. However, I have noticed even he is becoming more conservative in prescribing my medications.He knows I am not a drug seeker but he has to deal with the DEA (we are in FL which is one of the worst states) Please have the DEA back off and have them go after the true drug problems-the kids on the streets selling to other kids, the cartels being illegal drugs in over our borders, etc. .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from Grinnell, IA signed.
Feb 15th, 2014Someone from Springfield, MA writes:
I recently had back surgery and had to go to 3 different drug stores to get a pain med prescription filled-no one should have to drive all over town to get a legal script filled!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from Midland, TX signed.
Feb 15th, 2014Someone from Northwood, NH writes:
I've been on daily pain meds for almost 30 yrs and will be for life (I'm 57 now). Without them, I wouldn't be able to function. I would never choose this for myself nor would I wish it on my worst enemy.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from Camarillo, CA signed.
Feb 15th, 2014Someone from Saint Petersburg, FL writes:
if the doctors could/would fix me, I would not need medication to survive. I do not ever dive on medication. I am very responsible with it and I hate it. if I didn't hurt, I wouldn't touch it. do you think I would not do almost anything to have my quality of life pre spine falling apart returned. yeah, I chose this! not. and there but for the grace of god go I, because it could be worse! I will never wish this on anyone!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from North Palm Beach, FL writes:
16 operations since 2006,FBSS 8 times over..CRPS2 (1 of the worst CHRONIC PAIN disorders)?been treated so awful..more & more suicide seems like a better alternative?...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from Zephyrhills, FL writes:
We are being treated unfairly and unjust. This has gone way to far. We are suffering here in Florida from the DEA scare tacticsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from Milwaukee, WI signed.
Feb 15th, 2014Someone from Sparks, NV signed.
Feb 15th, 2014Someone from Lowell, AR writes:
If chronic pain sufferers are not the target, why can I say I'm a Heroin Addict and get in a methadone clinic easier then I can go to ER & get treated for chronic pain. I was called drug seeking with imaginary pain at 21 years old that left me 3 days from death when diagnosed. Drug seeking again with surgery infection size of basketball when I crawled into ER. Now I am drug seeking to live with the pain caused by ignored deadly medical conditions and sick of living in torture. My life is pure hell and when I can't take it anymore, DEA needs to be charged with my Death & leaving me in never ending torture with no way out.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2014Someone from Beaver Dam, KY writes:
how can doctors say they will not take patients that require narcotic prescriptions. its like failing a test. if you suffer from chronic pain or have a anxiety condition your off limits to health care in ky.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 14th, 2014Someone from North Bend, OR writes:
I suffer from debilitating pain. That effects, literally every decision I make. It's unconstitutional to have the DEA involved in the treatments; my doctors and I have chosenREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 14th, 2014Someone from Kent, OH signed.
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Feb 13th, 2014Someone from Rancho Cordova, CA signed.
Feb 13th, 2014Someone from Las Vegas, NV writes:
I have suffered for 24 years from chronic functional abdominal pain (cfap) and have had an extremely hard time finding help. I've been treated like trash. :,(REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 13th, 2014Someone from Superior, MT signed.
Feb 12th, 2014Someone from Las Vegas, NV writes:
The Pain Management Doctors I have seen are using the fear of the DEA to schedule multiple high cost injections for their patients that are not effectively treating the pain they suffer. And like myself i have been forced to live with the pain because I won't agree to go deep in debt to have tests done that are not necessary and have already been done and reported. The DEA is not the family doctor or a doctor of any kind and we who truly need help with pain problems should not have to spend thousands of dollars on failed procedures that cannot due anything close to the relief of just the lowest Oxy prescriptionREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 12th, 2014Someone from Pickerington, OH writes:
I am suffering because of this action of the government. I now have no pain medication and doctor because of this action of the DEA!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 11th, 2014Someone from North Hatfield, MA writes:
I only want to function, not be a huddled mass on the sofa.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 11th, 2014Someone from Webster, NY writes:
what ever happened to the " Hypocritical Oath " or the Law of " Ethics " ... suicide should be legalized , when they fail to function correctly IT BECOMES MARTIAL LAW ?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 11th, 2014Someone from Beaver, WV signed.
Feb 11th, 2014Someone from Louisville, KY signed.
Feb 10th, 2014Someone from Hedgesville, WV writes:
I am a cancer patient from west virginia and I feel bad for all of you who cant get your pain meds. My oncologist is in winchester virginia and my family doctor is in west virginia and they have no problems giving me the medications I need to get through this even pain meds. I have 2 grown children 3 small children a gran baby and my husband and I own 2 very successful businesses my doctors know without my pain medication I would definitely be suffering so thank u to my very great DoctorsREPORT COMMENTS
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