First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Aug 27th, 2013Someone from Katy, TX signed.
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Aug 27th, 2013Someone from Keota, OK writes:
I wonder if the DEA would scrutinize doctors for prescribing these same medications to members of Congress or the POTUS. I bet not. Such a treacherous state of affairs!Aug 27th, 2013Someone from Hendersonville, NC writes:
I've been a CP patient for over 14 years - the entirety of my daughter's life. Every day I thank God my physicians understand my pain and are willing to treat it so that I can function as a person and as a single mother to my daughter. I fear - literally fear - the day that changes. This war on chronic pain patients MUST STOP NOW. We have the RIGHT to have our pain managed so that we can LIVE and FUNCTION as members of society instead of the parasites so many of us are treated as right off the bat, with no justification.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 27th, 2013Someone from Little Sioux, IA writes:
I can't even find a Doctor that even treats RSD/CRPS, let alone willing to prescribe pain meds. I can't travel the 10 hours round trip to see a doctor. I've already had a doctor prosecuted by the DEA unfairly. I have NEVER misused my pain meds in the 11 years I've had RSD, I've ALWAYS been trueful with my doctors if I've not used as much of my pain meds that month and had some left over, or if I had to use more. Why should those of us who truly need pain meds to function daily, to take care of day to day things, to be able to be "normal" parents to our children, have to suffer because of the ignorance of idiots that abuse the pain meds??? It's not fair to us!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 27th, 2013Someone from Fall Branch, TN writes:
I have watched my neighbor, a fellow veteran of the Vietnam era...last year they a new "Drug Nazi" at m VA and the first thing they did was take away his most effective meds, and then up the doses on the more dangerous stuff...I used to be able to go over a few times a week and help him do some stuff outside around his house...now he's stuck inside due to the debilitating pain and can't even use anything else or he loses everything...it's heart breaking to see this honorable man go through this...he served his country with honor and distinction...and they should be doing everything they can to help him. I deal with chronic pain from injuries I sustained in Iraq, but have chosen not to take meds that could interfere with my right to bear arms...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 27th, 2013Someone from Rocky Mount, VA writes:
My wife already disabled barely elegible for ssa requirements in credits.Our 3 sons recieve $33 monthly,I have ddd,multiple herniations two disc completely gone (bone on bone) 2 more moderately deteriorated and 2 bone spurs have been taken to the cleaners finanacially already by the system labeled a seeker and forced to remain imprisoned in my own bed reguarly to a more devestating pain watching my kids be forced to rely on an unrelyable dad.I love my kids,and endure for them to be taught to be godfearing,compassionate,and non judgemental.I pray god rewards me for not sentenceing those accountable for our suffering needlessly to eternal damnation and showing them compassion by giving them the time to find god and not choosing my prison be somewhere other than the place they chose for me.Help them lord they know not what they do.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 27th, 2013Someone from Rocky Mount, VA writes:
My wife already disabled barely elegible for ssa requirements in credits.Our 3 sons recieve $33 monthly,I have ddd,multiple herniations two disc completely gone (bone on bone) 2 more moderately deteriorated and 2 bone spurs have been taken to the cleaners finanacially already by the system labeled a seeker and forced to remain imprisoned in my own bed reguarly to a more devestating pain watching my kids be forced to rely on an unrelyable dad.I love my kids,and endure for them to be taught to be godfearing,compassionate,and non judgemental.I pray god rewards me for not sentenceing those accountable for our suffering needlessly to eternal damnation and showing them compassion by giving them the time to find god and not choosing my prison be somewhere other than the place they chose for me.Help them lord they know not what they do.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 27th, 2013Someone from Haw River, NC signed.
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Aug 27th, 2013Someone from Hobson, MT writes:
I am in chronic pain all the time. i hate pain meds but sometimes I would not have quality of life at all without taking them.my husband is the same way. we are far from drug addicts yet we have to bring our pain pills into the clinic to be counted.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 27th, 2013Someone from Santa Paula, CA signed.
Aug 27th, 2013Someone from Rock Tavern, NY writes:
YOU WELL HAVE A HELL OF A LOT MORE SUICIDES THEN YOU WELL HAVE ANY PERSON BECOMING ADDICTS, THE MEDICAL FIELD IN THE USA IS BARBARIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 27th, 2013Someone from Pearland, TX signed.
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Aug 26th, 2013Someone from Gibsonville, NC writes:
I am 31 single mom with fibromyalgia. without pain pills I could not work, take care of my, my daughter or function. This is life time sentence.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2013Someone from Muncie, IN writes:
If those that are against doctors giving people in cronic pain the pain meds they need had this cronic pain themselves they would be quick to chang their mind.REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 26th, 2013Someone from Hot Springs National Park, AR writes:
It puzzles me how my medicare insurance does not cover migraine medications. 6 pills over $100. But they do cover pain meds. This makes no sense to me.REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 26th, 2013Someone from New Orleans, LA writes:
i suffer everyday of my life fom peripheral neuropathy.you may look it up and see what the symptoms are.there are dys where i am in so muc pain al i do is cry.half the time i can not walk if it was not for my pain medication.evewn though i am in severe 24/7 pain..i feel like a drug addict seeking pills everytime i go to my doctor visit.i am drug tested everytime i go which is perfectly fine with me and beleive this shold be dne in every doctors office if receiving narcotics.REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 26th, 2013Someone from Fort Wayne, IN writes:
I have known the embarrassment of going to have my prescriptions filled, only to be questioned like a criminal. I have Fibromyalgia, severe Osteoarthritis as well as an auto-immune disease. I have already had one hip replaced and waiting for 2 much needed surgeries. I can't have those surgeries because of no insurance (but that's another issue) I NEED pain medication just to function, not because I am addicted but because the pain is beyond comprehension if I don't have it! I am only 41 years old, not an elderly person by any means and am made to feel like I am a drug addict by my pharmacist and the general public. This needs to change so lives are not lost to suicide because the DEA decides to target ANYONE using pain meds and scares the medical community into not prescribing meds that are truly needed!REPORT COMMENTS
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