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Stop the inhumane torture & genocide of U.S. citizens that experience severe chronic pain

I come before you & implore you to rescind the 2016 CDC opaite prescribing guidelines. For this is the foundation upon which furthering restrictions & laws have & are being passed denying those who suffer from chronic illnesses & injuries causing chronic pain, & now acute & post-operative pain, are being denied access to medically deemed neccessary care. After writers of the the illegally written 2016 CDC guidelines for opaite prescribing for physicians came forward stating falsified data was used to write the guidelines, both the CDC & FDA admitted in March & May of 2018 to "accidentally" counting herion & illcit fentanyl (not to be confused with prescription fentanyl) to determine the # of opaite prescription overdose deaths in the U.S. & to determine the # of opaite prescriptions written in the U.S. Being these 2 drugs are responsible for almost 80% of all overdose deaths before counting all other street drugs, this expedentially inflated the truth to nothing more than fiction. Next dosage caps, as the CDC guidelines suggests using 90 millegrams Morphine Equivelant, have no scientific backing, in fact its the polar opposite! There are numerous factors such as 6 kidney enzymes neccessary to digest & absorb opaites which vary between patients, genetics, metabolism, gender, tolerance (not to be confused with a sign of addiction but occurs with length of exposure), body weight, & numerous other factors determine how each individual patient shall respond to the same dosage of the same u-antagonist opaite pain medications. That said dosage caps are scientifically proven to lead to ineffective medical care, cause needless suffering, a decreased quality of life, prevents patients from being kept stabilized, & even causes fatalities as under & untreated chronic pain is fatal by the means & not limited to heart attack, strokes, organ failure, & suicide.
How can the government not only stand by but endorse any furthering restrictions based on a foundation that is nothing more than a propaganda campaign of lies & scientific mistruths? One that has resulted in the inhumane torture & deaths of U.S. citizens, inflicted upon them by their own government & its agencies? The governments own Veteran's Affairs Hospitals have adopted the CDC guidelines as a standard of care; the result we now have 22 veterans a day committing suicide many of them chronic pain patients, 8030 suicides a year & this represents a small fraction of the entire civilian population. Suicide has risen to the #3 cause of death in the U.S.
The American Medical Association also endorses & has published that restricting access to opiate medication has caused extreme harm to those who suffer from chronic pain & the pendulum has swung to far causing the denial of appropriate medical care & must swing back.They are also asking that the 2016 CDC guidelines be rescinded & no further use of dosage caps based on morphine equivalency as used in the CDC's illegally written guidelines. This is just a glimpse in to the A.M.A's strong opposition of what is currently occuring within the U.S. by the way of restricting access to medically necessary opaite medications to patients suffering from chronic pain, to protecting physician's rights to adequately treat patients experiencing chronic pain with a documented medical necessity for opaite medications without fear of reprocutions for providing ethical medical care.
On Jan. 01, 2019 CMS & Medicare plans to release furthering regulations & hard & soft "safety edits" making accessibility to medically necessary opaite medications even more so difficult & for all to many unavailable at a effective dosage amount, again based on dosage caps & the CDC guidelines. They shall use 2 groups those at & above 90 mg Morphine Equivelant (as falsely recommended by the CDC's guidelines of mistruths & fiction) & the 2nd group at 200 mg Morphine Equivelancy. There is 1.6 million Medicare patients in this catagory above 90 mg Morphine Equivelancy that shall be adversely affected, then CMS & is mandated each state set up similiar guidelines for Medicaid by next year, then private insurers shall follow suits, how many patients will be left to inhumanely suffer or die shall CMS not be halted immediately? To just name some of the effects of this draconian practice of medicine about to be implimented upon our seniors, our chronically ill & injured, & our disabled citizens by their own government; at 90 mg Morphine Equivelancy a pharmacist shall be instructed to illegally practice medicine without a license, upon verifying with the treating physician the validity & medical need for the opaite prescription, the final say on weather or not a patient shall receive their medication lies soley in the pharmacist's hands illegally & unethically, without access to patients records, diagnoses, test results, nor completing a physical evaluation they shall be instructed by CMS & Medicare to decide themselves weather to fill the prescription or deny the patient the medication. There shall be no appeal process afforded to those insured by CMS & Medicare to demonstrate their medical necessity of opiate medications, be it through diagnoses, imaging, lab work, past & current use & failed use of supportive therapies, surgeries, injections, non-pharmacological, pharmacological, or over the counter medications currently in use or past use with failure or contradicting effects to control their pain. Above 200 mg patients shall not receive coverage for their prescriptions, many on a very tight budget shall have to choose between purchasing items such as food, housing, or paying out of pocket unethically for their opaite medications. Many who cannot afford to do so they shall be left to inhumanely suffer, others shall commit suicide or will die from being left under & untreated for chronic pain, & there shall also be a increase in the population that sadly & unnecessarily shall turn to the streets increasing the overdose deaths. A great number of chronic pain patients shall be labeled with a new medical diagnoses, "opiate use disorder", patients for years who have had pill counts, urine testing, regular evaluations, & examinations documenting the medical necessity for their medications, proving they have not abused their medications, nor have they shown any signs of addiction, or even being a "high-risk" patient; yet they shall be forced in to addiction treatment, have their opiate medications stopped, & placed on addiction medications. In fact a fraction of less than 1% of all chronic pain patients ever become addicted. Others shall be told by our government what sole doctor they can use & sole pharmacy, which shall be biased to keep the government sending customers their way, not objectively providing proper medical care. These are just a few ramifications being unjustly placed upon chronic pain patients due to a rash of overdoses deaths within our country, caused almost soley due to the use of street drugs & the actions of addicts, not chronic pain patients but chronic patients are paying the highest price of all by lossing their quality of life, their ability to due simple daily tasks, to be kept medically stabilised, & for far to many they shall pay the ultimate price of their literal lives. CMS & Medicare must be immediately halted from moving forward on Jan. 01, 2019, especially since the information came out about the falsified CDC & FDA data used to set up dosage caps as a "effective form" of medical treatment; we must not allow our government nor its agencies to perpetuate the inhumane torture & genocide of its own citizens!
I urge you to educate yourself further for our government's own agencies published data shall prove my statements & more so. You shall also find within the states that have enacted the strictest regulations & laws to obtain medically necessary opiate medications, these states have seen the highest increase in overdose deaths within our country! A glaring endorsement of the ineffectiveness of restricting access to opaite medications for patients with a documented need! Do not stand idly by & allow this bloodshed to fall upon your hands! This is in direct violation of the foundation of our country, our Decleration of Independence, which states every U.S. citizen has the right to pursue liberty, life, & happiness, not to be interfered with yet protected by the U.S. government. Does this mean nothing to you? This madness must be stopped & the government's misguided efforts to combat overdose deaths must be directed at the cause, being the influx of ever more potent & lethal forms of herion, fentanyl, carafentanyl, & street drugs such as K2, another fentanyl laced illicit drug, drugs being used by addicts not law abiding chronic pain patients.