First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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May 21st, 2013Someone from Bixby, OK writes:
I'm going to add another comment wwjd he healed the sick have compassion for chronic pain suffers don't push us 2 suicide we r moms dad's aunts cousins friends we would b deeply missed don't have disabled people's blood on ur hands!! let me take a walk w/my my family on a day I can or cook a meal 4 m y family my husband works 6 days week & comes home 2 3 disabled people & a toddler I wish u could see his anguish & feel my & my 10 & 12 yr old kids eexcruciating pain or us dc already uh on the couch or bed @least 2_3days week that's w/pain meds my 12 yr old is suicidal b/c of severe daily pain Dr Coburn delivered her me&my kids r not druggies we want to enjoy just a bit of life don't drive my babies or me or 1000's of others 2 suicide plz help us truly disabled adults & kids help take away my husband & my tears we r punished enough 2 have 2 live this way plz b human n do the right thing don't drive people esp my children 2 suicide plz plz thx u 4 listening 2 us -
May 21st, 2013Someone from Bixby, OK writes:
I live w/fibromyalgia autoimmune arth regular arthritis nerve damage bulging disc irritable bowel syndrome other illness have 2 severely disabled children & a toddler some days I'm bedridden my 12 yr daughter has 3 disabling illness 1 is severe I h w/blindness/deafness episodes chronic pain w/that & has fibromyalgia & me natal a lk disorder my son has multiple ill Ness .live m y life 4 1 week even w/meds I live n he'll pain & fatigue taking care of my sick kids is sometimes impossible I'm not an addict but have been treated that way by pharmacy staff many x I'm a JW anti illegal drug mom who w wa/o my meds would b ed ridden 24/7 what would my daughter do when shes blind or my son on days he's to mentally ill to on take care of himself or my toddler don't take my meds I deserve to b able to move n take care of my kids maybe garden spend x w my husband walk n our shoes u may 1 day pray u don'tREPORT COMMENTS
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May 20th, 2013Someone from Decatur, GA writes:
If your in constant pain you would do anything to have just a moment of relief. Its so unfair that the dea is getting in doctor/patient business. The dea doesn't have a medical degree. If the doctor has examined the patient, done test, etc and the doctor thinks the patient needs pain medicine then so be it. Pain medicine is the only thing that even dims the pain. It takes the edge off the pIn meaning it makes you stop crying. It helps you stop hurting as bad and be able to care for your kids, do laundry, cook dinner. It keeps you from being bedridden. After about three months of taking it you no longer havr the weird side effects, it just takes e pain away. Please let doctors be doctors.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 19th, 2013Someone from Willimantic, CT writes:
Doctors give any excuse, mention their licenses, and do not mention the DEA. Why do you think that is?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2013Someone from Willimantic, CT writes:
Robert s, your gun remark doesn't help. Yes, the DEA are fascistsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2013Someone from Valdosta, GA writes:
When the DEA came to my Dr.s office theyheld every one prisoner while they searched all the patients, then searched teir cars, then would not let any one leave for hours while they confiscated all the records. Sounds like the same way Hitleracted towards the Jews. They are slowly stripping all our rights away to weaken us (just like hitler) then then when you are vulnerable, they will remove all fire arms from the public (just like Hitler). Then they will have full control (just like Hitler). This is a strong and very proud country, and I believe in the fact that the people will not stand for much more of this abuse. Peace.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2013Someone from Valdosta, GA writes:
When the DEA came to my Dr.s office theyheld every one prisoner while they searched all the patients, then searched teir cars, then would not let any one leave for hours while they confiscated all the records. Sounds like the same way Hitleracted towards the Jews. They are slowly stripping all our rights away to weaken us (just like hitler) then then when you are vulnerable, they will remove all fire arms from the public (just like Hitler). Then they will have full control (just like Hitler). This is a strong and very proud country, and I believe in the fact that the people will not stand for much more of this abuse. Peace.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2013Someone from Valdosta, GA writes:
When the DEA came to my Dr.s office theyheld every one prisoner while they searched all the patients, then searched teir cars, then would not let any one leave for hours while they confiscated all the records. Sounds like the same way Hitleracted towards the Jews. They are slowly stripping all our rights away to weaken us (just like hitler) then then when you are vulnerable, they will remove all fire arms from the public (just like Hitler). Then they will have full control (just like Hitler). This is a strong and very proud country, and I believe in the fact that the people will not stand for much more of this abuse. Peace.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 14th, 2013Someone from Saint Charles, IL writes:
A nameless bureaucrat has no place coming between a doctor and his/her patient. Until the pharmacists and drones attend, then graduate, medical school, they have no right to interfere with a treatment plan. I am a tax paying citizen who works a physically intensive job, and I suffer chronic pain from a childhood of abuse that left me with permanent injuries. Despite being told I would never be able to work a physically intensive job, I defied the odds. I pay your salary, get outta my way, and let me work!REPORT COMMENTS
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May 5th, 2013Someone from Nashua, NH writes:
The first responsibility of the government is to care for its people. Laws that go overboard in protecting us from illicit drug use, harm those who truly need relief from suffering. The DEA needs to address the needs of chronic pain sufferers, and seperate them from users of recreational drugs. There is a huge difference between wanting pain medication, and NEEDING it.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 5th, 2013Someone from Cape May Court House, NJ writes:
I am a Lupus survivor and needs pain medication to function on a daily basis. There are millions of us that needs the medication. Please don't make the good suffers for the bad.REPORT COMMENTS
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I am a Lupus survivor and needs pain medication to function on a daily basis. There are millions of us that needs the medication. Please don't make the good suffers for the bad.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 4th, 2013Someone from Merkel, TX writes:
It is a sad state of affairs that we have to go to such lengths to basically save our lives when all we want is to enjoy our lives again as we did prior to the Chronic Pain!! We ALL deserve, and have the right, to a life of quality, love, enjoyment, and PAIN FREE!!!! We didn't ask to have ours lives filled with such overbearing pain that doing the simplest of tasks makes you want to scream as loud as you can, and yet you still have numerous "simple" everyday tasks still to complete. I personally think those of us who live with Chronic Pain are the worlds unsung heroes because we have to push the pain away in order to have any symbolism of a 'normal' life!! Our only hope is for our doctor's to be able to help us in whatever manner possible!! Think About It....how would you feel if it were your mother, sister, brother, daughter, son, grandparent, or spouse that couldn't be touched, or you have to watch as they scream & cry because the pain is so overwhelming and there is absolutely nothing you can do because there isn't one doctor who will treat them for their pain, so there is NO help? What Would You Do?? I Pray at least one person on this committee reads these petition comments and stands up for us!! ~May God Bless You All~REPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 30th, 2013Someone from Rapid City, SD writes:
Not all of my comment below was posted, but I apologize to all the readers that I mistakenly caused that same comment to post three times. I did not intend to do that, but am frankly a dinasaur when it comes to computers. Again, my apology that the same comment appears two times after the first one.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 30th, 2013Someone from Rapid City, SD writes:
I agree with all those who have stated that victims of chronic pain are being harmed by doctors and the DEA. Know what the problem is, folks? These people have never had to cope with long-term disabling chronic pain, so why should they care? Further, because it isn't them suffering, they make vicious assumptions about the pain patient, even though the medical evidence (MRI's, CT scans, X-rays, etc.) are there to PROVE the pain patient has bonafide BIG PAIN issues! Too many doctors aren't much better than the government people, because the doctors don't have to cope with the pain either. When you don't have to deal with debiltating, life-threatening pain, you can't possibly imagine what it's like - there's no way you can. It's long overdue for this country to climb into the 21st century on this issue. A lot of other countries already have. Additionally, doctors shouldn't prescribe heavy pain meds when the patient's insides don't show any reason why the pain should be there. However, doctors too often ignore the science of pain control and blame the patients for having the "nerve" (pardon the expression) to be in pain and are therefore a pain in the doctor's*****because the doctor can't boil it down to simple, but stupid "solutions." I've also thought about the fact that the doctors and the true drug addicts really do have much more in common than they will ever know-here's why: Neither the doctors nor the true dopers have any pain - HELLO! Both doctors and true dopers believe that pain medication simply makes the person, who truly is in REAL pain, as high as it would, or does, make them. Never mind the true science of pain control which clearly shows the medication can't do two jobs at once, i.e., control pain messages sent to the brain from the spinal cord and make the person high besides. The only way someone can get high is if they don't have pain to begin with, or WAY OVERTAKE medication. True chronic pain sufferers know better than to overtake the meds because they don't want to spend days in truly terrible pain, by running out of medication. True drug abusers (who couldn't care less what they do to others) don't have a clue what that pain is like. All they apparently think about is withdrawl. And, since doctors don't have to cope with chronic pain and are generally woefully uneducated about this issue in this country, they can't feel that frightening pain and make really STUPID ASSUMPTIONS that the patient "is just in withdrawl." So, both the doctors and the drug abusers are making the same stupid assumptions. What a cruel irony against those who really do suffer and have the medical science to prove it. Maybe it would be good for JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, or The New England Journal of Medicine, to consider how little the doctors care about treating horrific, disabling, debilitating pain, and how much they have in common with actual drug addicts or abusers. Therefore, whether these docREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 30th, 2013Someone from Rapid City, SD writes:
I agree with all those who have stated that victims of chronic pain are being harmed by doctors and the DEA. Know what the problem is, folks? These people have never had to cope with long-term disabling chronic pain, so why should they care? Further, because it isn't them suffering, they make vicious assumptions about the pain patient, even though the medical evidence (MRI's, CT scans, X-rays, etc.) are there to PROVE the pain patient has bonafide BIG PAIN issues! Too many doctors aren't much better than the government people, because the doctors don't have to cope with the pain either. When you don't have to deal with debiltating, life-threatening pain, you can't possibly imagine what it's like - there's no way you can. It's long overdue for this country to climb into the 21st century on this issue. A lot of other countries already have. Additionally, doctors shouldn't prescribe heavy pain meds when the patient's insides don't show any reason why the pain should be there. However, doctors too often ignore the science of pain control and blame the patients for having the "nerve" (pardon the expression) to be in pain and are therefore a pain in the doctor's*****because the doctor can't boil it down to simple, but stupid "solutions." I've also thought about the fact that the doctors and the true drug addicts really do have much more in common than they will ever know-here's why: Neither the doctors nor the true dopers have any pain - HELLO! Both doctors and true dopers believe that pain medication simply makes the person, who truly is in REAL pain, as high as it would, or does, make them. Never mind the true science of pain control which clearly shows the medication can't do two jobs at once, i.e., control pain messages sent to the brain from the spinal cord and make the person high besides. The only way someone can get high is if they don't have pain to begin with, or WAY OVERTAKE medication. True chronic pain sufferers know better than to overtake the meds because they don't want to spend days in truly terrible pain, by running out of medication. True drug abusers (who couldn't care less what they do to others) don't have a clue what that pain is like. All they apparently think about is withdrawl. And, since doctors don't have to cope with chronic pain and are generally woefully uneducated about this issue in this country, they can't feel that frightening pain and make really STUPID ASSUMPTIONS that the patient "is just in withdrawl." So, both the doctors and the drug abusers are making the same stupid assumptions. What a cruel irony against those who really do suffer and have the medical science to prove it. Maybe it would be good for JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, or The New England Journal of Medicine, to consider how little the doctors care about treating horrific, disabling, debilitating pain, and how much they have in common with actual drug addicts or abusers. Therefore, whether these docREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 30th, 2013Someone from Rapid City, SD writes:
I agree with all those who have stated that victims of chronic pain are being harmed by doctors and the DEA. Know what the problem is, folks? These people have never had to cope with long-term disabling chronic pain, so why should they care? Further, because it isn't them suffering, they make vicious assumptions about the pain patient, even though the medical evidence (MRI's, CT scans, X-rays, etc.) are there to PROVE the pain patient has bonafide BIG PAIN issues! Too many doctors aren't much better than the government people, because the doctors don't have to cope with the pain either. When you don't have to deal with debiltating, life-threatening pain, you can't possibly imagine what it's like - there's no way you can. It's long overdue for this country to climb into the 21st century on this issue. A lot of other countries already have. Additionally, doctors shouldn't prescribe heavy pain meds when the patient's insides don't show any reason why the pain should be there. However, doctors too often ignore the science of pain control and blame the patients for having the "nerve" (pardon the expression) to be in pain and are therefore a pain in the doctor's*****because the doctor can't boil it down to simple, but stupid "solutions." I've also thought about the fact that the doctors and the true drug addicts really do have much more in common than they will ever know-here's why: Neither the doctors nor the true dopers have any pain - HELLO! Both doctors and true dopers believe that pain medication simply makes the person, who truly is in REAL pain, as high as it would, or does, make them. Never mind the true science of pain control which clearly shows the medication can't do two jobs at once, i.e., control pain messages sent to the brain from the spinal cord and make the person high besides. The only way someone can get high is if they don't have pain to begin with, or WAY OVERTAKE medication. True chronic pain sufferers know better than to overtake the meds because they don't want to spend days in truly terrible pain, by running out of medication. True drug abusers (who couldn't care less what they do to others) don't have a clue what that pain is like. All they apparently think about is withdrawl. And, since doctors don't have to cope with chronic pain and are generally woefully uneducated about this issue in this country, they can't feel that frightening pain and make really STUPID ASSUMPTIONS that the patient "is just in withdrawl." So, both the doctors and the drug abusers are making the same stupid assumptions. What a cruel irony against those who really do suffer and have the medical science to prove it. Maybe it would be good for JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, or The New England Journal of Medicine, to consider how little the doctors care about treating horrific, disabling, debilitating pain, and how much they have in common with actual drug addicts or abusers. Therefore, whether these docREPORT COMMENTS
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