First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Aug 25th, 2013Someone from Beaverton, OR signed.
Aug 25th, 2013Someone from Birch Harbor, ME writes:
I have several severe conditions that cause chronic pain. Been told by doctors: the only problem with your hands is that you text too much. (I have never owned a cell phone and would not know how to text if someone handed me one!) I have been told by another doctor: you only like the high narcotic medications provide. (I have never gotten high from pain medication because I take them as instructed. They are for pain--not recreation.) Someone really needs to educate the DEA and the doctors they are intimidating!Aug 25th, 2013Someone from Birch Harbor, ME writes:
I have several severe conditions that cause chronic pain. Been told by doctors: the only problem with your hands is that you text too much. (I have never owned a cell phone and would not know how to text if someone handed me one!) I have been told by another doctor: you only like the high narcotic medications provide. (I have never gotten high from pain medication because I take them as instructed. They are for pain--not recreation.) Someone really needs to educate the DEA and the doctors they are intimidating!REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 25th, 2013Someone from Birch Harbor, ME writes:
I have several severe conditions that cause chronic pain. Been told by doctors: the only problem with your hands is that you text too much. (I have never owned a cell phone and would not know how to text if someone handed me one!) I have been told by another doctor: you only like the high narcotic medications provide. (I have never gotten high from pain medication because I take them as instructed. They are for pain--not recreation.) Someone really needs to educate the DEA and the doctors they are intimidating!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2013Someone from Denison, TX writes:
If we spent half this time and effort to combat "recreational addiction", we all would be in a better place. Those with chronic pain diseases need all the help they can get to be able to function as "normal" as they can.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2013Someone from Naples, FL writes:
Please don't punish true chronic pain patients. I wouldn't wish chronic pain on my worse enemy.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2013Someone from Penrose, NC signed.
Aug 25th, 2013Someone from Conway, SC writes:
My wife suffers from chronic pain due to conditions that cannot be cured, only treated by pain medicines to manage her pain and allow her to not be bed-ridden.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2013Someone from Conway, SC writes:
I suffer from several chronic life-long painful illnesses for which there is no cure, only pain management. Denying pain meds to someone who relies on them just to keep their pain under enough control to have some quality of life is wrong.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2013Someone from Logan, OH signed.
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Aug 25th, 2013Someone from Maiden, NC writes:
Let them have one hour of this-then they would understandREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2013Someone from Baldwyn, MS signed.
Aug 25th, 2013Someone from Maplewood, NJ writes:
Chronic Pain sufferers should not be targeted or sanctioned for asking for medication that allows them to function. Holistic treatment of patients cannot be abandoned because of a few who abuse medications. Would you deny diabetics insulin? The use of pain medications should be between a doctor and a patient - not legislation. Stop punishing legitimate patients!REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 25th, 2013Someone from Coatesville, PA writes:
Every single day I try to be positive...and see the beauty of this life God created for us. Unfortunately I also am reminded daily of the several chronic debilitating diseases from which I have been labeled. I still try to do everything I can. I cannot even imagine what people with my conditions have to experience without proper pain control and an MD who listens and trusts you as the patient. We just want to be free of some pain to participate in life!!! Don't give us more pain...and guilt and shame...REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 25th, 2013Someone from Lampe, MO writes:
Pain relieve is necessary to live a somewhat quality of life. Their are many suffering that are denied the proper pain meds. Please allow doctors to help their patients without fear of loosing their license.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2013Someone from Evergreen Park, IL writes:
Go after drug cartels, not legitimate doctors and patients!!! We can't survive without pain med (fibromyalgia). You will have a mass of suicides driven from chronic pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 25th, 2013Someone from Douglassville, PA writes:
This is so unfair and hurtful to those needing medical help. It's bad enough to live with chronic pain that robs one of any quality of life, but then to have doctors or others accuse or suggest that you just want drugs, only causes more pain. Plus, it truly feels like a violation of our rights in a free country.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2013Someone from Destrehan, LA writes:
Our chronic pain is REAL. Why are those of us who go to legitimate MDs, sign contracts, are in compliance as proved by random testing being punished for something we cannot control? I'd love for you to live in my body for one week and then tell me how you feel about making this so hard on us.REPORT COMMENTS
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