First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Aug 11th, 2016Someone from Redding, CA signed.
Aug 11th, 2016Someone from Pompano Beach, FL writes:
Drug dealers will still get what they want while people, like me, with chronic extreme pain have to suffer.Aug 11th, 2016Someone from Taft, CA signed.
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Aug 11th, 2016Someone from Homestead, PA writes:
So some person with a two year criminal justice degree from a community college thinks he knows better than my doctor as far as prescribing medications that HELP! All these idiots are doing is creating more street drug addicts for if the doctor controlled medications aren't available, they will surely go to the street for relief! The government screws everything they touch up! It's time for Revolution Part 2!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 11th, 2016Someone from Simi Valley, CA writes:
Everyone in my chronic pain supports groups are freaking out. Some are considering suicide. They are taking away what little mobility, and life, we have left.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 11th, 2016Someone from Fredericksburg, VA writes:
My doctor thinks i am a drug addict and now causing me humiliation, not only that for the past 8 years he has been my only pain doctor and i have no choice but to see him because all other pain clients are too far away for me to drive. When i first saw him when i was 22 years old, he gave me 80mg oxycottin time released 3 times a day for 2 years and now said he never gave that to me, which i still have the bottles. The reason i am bringing this up is, who gives a 22 year old 80mg Oxycotton's 3x a day for joint pain then lies 8 years later and said he never gave it to me. That caused me a lot of problems with me and my family, i also hurt someone very badly because of the effects of these strong drugs, and now he doesn't want to give me anything and blames me by saying i am seeing two different doctors for pain medication, which i wasn't. i just couldn't make it to his office because he moved 30 miles away so instead of seeing him to refill and pay $170 for a 5 minute visit i went to a GP doctor so he could give me medication just over the weekend until i could see my other doctor, and i phoned in and spoke to my other doctor and they said it was ok, but when it came time to show up the next week, they treated me like trash, forced me to take a drug test when in the past entire 8 years he has never done and they even lied about that saying i had taken many, which is bull sh&t, and the doctor stated he couldn't give me the same amount of pain medication that he normally did because i went to another doctor. So instead of my normal dose of 3 pills a day he took it down to 1 pill a day of methadose for chronic pain. Also to add i have UC, and AR. combined with a broken back after falling down the stairs. So what am i to do now?? I feel like trash because of the way the entire doctors office treated me, and im not trash, i own half of a company, that i work for but that doesn't matter. If you take pain medication you are automatically a drug addict now days.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 11th, 2016Someone from Sherrodsville, OH signed.
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Aug 11th, 2016Someone from Apache Junction, AZ writes:
What do people do that are not using pot for pain, but for stomach and anxiety issues? Cut off pain meds and have no regard for the individual patients needs.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 11th, 2016Someone from Aurora, CO signed.
Aug 11th, 2016Someone from Foresthill, CA writes:
My daughter has suffered because she was diagnosed several years ago with bipolar disorder. Because her doctor could not find the direct cause for her symptoms, he refuses to treat her and has basically told her it's all in her head. Now! When she goes to the doctor trying to get help for these same symptoms, they refuse to treat her. I personally, have seen the proof of her illness. Her illness is visible and her hearth declines. She has never been involved with drugs ever. She is not wanting pain medication, she just wants some test run to find out why she continues to run a fever and have swollen lymph nodes, or why she cannot have bowl movements. Do any of you have an answer for this? What makes all of you qualified to determine and diagnose someone's health, and decide whether or not they need treatment. Are all of you doctors? Why is is ok for a regular PCP to diagnose and determine a mental disorder and refuse treatment to a patient based on her mental health? Isn't this considered patient profiling? Do I sound angry? You damn right I am! I have witnessed my daughter decline in health because of this. Do I have to get an attorney and Sue for malpractice or for denying medical treatment based on my daughters mental illness? I guess sone.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 11th, 2016Someone from Leander, TX writes:
The DEA is a corrupt institution and serves no function. They are one of the biggest parts of the problem they claim to act in opposition of.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 11th, 2016Someone from Sedro Woolley, WA signed.
Aug 11th, 2016Someone from Henderson, NV writes:
Please go to: http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/7/19/cdc-opioid-guidelines-not-rule-regulation-or-law Read the article by Pat Anson, Editor You can find a link there to copy the letter I received from Dr. Houry at the CDC who oversaw the development of "CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain - United States, 2016" Take a copy of it to your physician, pain mgt. physician, and any one else you can think of. Send a copy to your state and federal representatives. To the media. To the insurance companies. Anyone and everyone. It is a breakthrough letter. It dispels much of the misrepresentation, misinterpretation, and outright lies perpetrated by the politicians, the media, and insurance companies. My physician was ecstatic about it. He said he and his colleagues can use it to rebut any questions about their judgement in opioid prescribing.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 11th, 2016Someone from Henderson, NV signed.
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Aug 10th, 2016Someone from Clinton, CT writes:
Please don't take our meds away as I will then have no life.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Vacaville, CA writes:
Pain Management? The current system does not work! Patients are not getting the medication they need! Please fix this.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Cicero, NY writes:
The new CDC guidelines are painfully misleading. Just because there haven't been enough studies to show the efficacy of opiates for chronic pain long-term doesn't mean that the government should just abruptly recommend stopping their use. How about conducting retroactive studies on the last hundred years worth of data? This is clearly a government agenda to appease those who are upset with the opiate epidemic, and while I feel sorry for drug addicts - I really do - it is because of them that we are all now suffering, and we don't deserve it. Punishing hundreds of millions of innocent people who are already being punished every day by chronic pain isn't the answer to the drug overdose problem. In fact, almost 88% of drug addicts never even had a valid prescription for medicine in the first place. I'm sitting here right now almost in tears because I can't get strong enough medication for my pain. No doctor will give it to me, and they cite the new CDC guidelines as the reason. There are many more like me who will eventually just give up and commit suicide. We are people with jobs, with homes, with families we love, and we are hurting. You must stop treating innocent people like criminals - we are already in so much pain, we suffer enough. This is criminal, just criminal of the government to do to so many people. How many will kill themselves before you change your recommendations? Do the suicides have to surpass the overdoses before you will do something to end the suffering? There has to be another way - this isn't it! - Sincerely, an RN with a compassionate heart, who also happens to live with severe chronic back pain - who is writing this nearly in TEARS!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Vinton, LA writes:
The way the DEA is handling the Poor doctors that are in Pain management are out control ..People with chronic pain are being treated like drug addicts don't you people relisle that chronic pain is no way to live and lots people have killed their self cause they can't take the way DEA is making doctors scared to write pain meds this has to stop it's hurting more than helping ...most Doctors are scared so what's a person to do ...please help us Chronic pain sufferers once and for all let the Doctors to treat the Patient pleaseREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Miami, FL writes:
My father is 78 years old and has had a bad back for years. He can barely walk and get out of bed sometimes because of the pain. He has had surgery, shots and pain therapy; none of this has helped with his chronic pain. He has done everything the doctors have recommended. Now, he cannot get his doctor to prescribe pain medicine. I don't understand why the medical profession and congress are allowing this to happen. He is 78 years old - he does not need to be in pain at this time of his life. My mother is his care giver and dealing with this nonsense doesn't help the situation. Just because some doctors and individuals have abused the system, does not mean that everyone should be punished, especially people in chronic pain. Lets prosecute the doctors who have the pill mills - not innocent people who just want to have quality of life. Thank you - Colette MREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Riverside, CA signed.
Aug 10th, 2016Someone from Susanville, CA writes:
Placing opiate pain relievers, October 2014, in a class II schedule has had devastating effects on chronic pain patients. We are being treated like criminals and can not get our medications filled in a timely manner and sometimes not at all . We have been forced into acute withdrawal along with disruption to our medical care. Our quality of life should not be taken away due to people who abuse these medications and die. Washington DC needs to start dealing with the real issue and that is the illegal market of opiates such as heroin, synthetic phentynol, which is killing people faster than heroin. Over regulation from DC, the DEA, and the FDA have taken away our basic human right to have quality of life and continuity of care under our physicians. This needs to change. We, chronic pain patients, have rights too! Drug addicted individuals need treatment for their addiction. Chronic pain patients need treatment for their life long illnesses and injuries. I do not want the federal government and law enforcement agencies involved in my private medical care between my physician and myself. There has been a terrible injustice done to a relatively small demographic of citizens. Many of us are still fighting for our health, despite this tremendous roadblock. Many of us still want to live and have productive lives. Our pain medications along with other modalities and treatments make that possible. These latest changes in regulations and drug class have created a Draconian effect on many people who are not the problem. It's called "Throwing the baby out with the bathwater." However, in this case, the baby (chronic pain patient) has not only been thrown out....but thrown over the cliff as well. We need changes to our laws that do not discriminate against people who, under the direct care of their doctor, use pain medication responsibly for their very legitimate health issues.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Anna, TX writes:
I cant have Ibuprophen cause of Kidney disease in family and I take 4 hydrocodones 10/325 a day but its getting to the point that's not helpingREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Hot Springs National Park, AR writes:
The new DEA law forces me to live in chronic pain! Im an elderly woman with previous back surgery. The pain becomes so severe that suicide crosses my mind. 😢REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 9th, 2016Someone from Nashville, TN writes:
This phenomena in the medical community of downsizing your medications by sending you to pain control center only to push you into having costly procedures that still leaves you in lots of pain and financially stressed do not serve the general public at all both of us and chronic pain need help are doctors should be able to determine what type of help we need without fear of Retribution either someone is trying to increase the number of illegal drug buys by forcing chronic pain patients to buy illegal drugs to subsidize so they don't go crazy from the pain or someone wants a society full of fools because they have gone crazy from the painREPORT COMMENTS
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