Stop the Opiate Tax aka The Lifeboat Act
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Saint Clair Shores, MI signed.
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Lone Tree, CO writes:
There are endless valid reasons for people to take opiods. Chronic pain patients never feel high but use pain medication to do the basics that healthy people take for granted. Too much pain medication makes us feel dysphoric. We want to function. We have the right to a life without pain. Most valid chronic pain patients do try EVERYTHING in their power and means to function, have a life. It is our right to have a life and why any person would want to take that right away from another is incomprehensible. We want to work, be social, contribute to the world. Have a family. Have lowered pain to work on healing the condition that causes our pain. All of these suggestions for doctors to follow, tax proposals etc is only causing more pain and anxiety in very sick people. People who are endlessly judged, would rather never see a pain pill again and just want a semblance of quality of life. It's inhumane to do this to sick people who follow all the rules and spend far too much time already just proving they aren't addicts or selling meds. People who want to just get high will in another way. People with valid conditions that cause chronic pain are the ones that will be affected and suffer. What all of this regulation is going to do is raise the suicide rate.Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Kansas, OK signed.
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Rockford, MI writes:
How much is the operation and implementation of this silly program going to cost? Why should chronic pain patients have to pay for the treatment of others? You think this cost won't be passed on to the patients? Furthermore, who will be making the decisions on whether these meds are worthy of a rebate or exemption? This is just foolish on its face. Try curing the disease instead of the symptoms.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Burnet, TX writes:
Why would you tax the people who follow the rules, see their doctors regularly, pass urine drug screens, and take their medication responsibly?! It took 38 years of pain and suffering before doctors discovered that a congenital birth defect, Medullary Sponge Kidney Disease, had caused my kidneys to fill completely with stones. For 12 more years I had intermittent bouts of pain, passed kidney stones, and had an occasional surgery to remove or break up an obstructing stone. I was prescribed opioids for the pain, and took them responsibly and only as needed. At 50 I had shockwave lithotripsy that caused internal damage, and my pain which was intermittent became constant. Without medicine, I cannot function. I am bedridden with complications caused by the pain. Every day I hear another story about a person who overdosed on a pain medication they bought on the street. Rarely do I hear that legitimate chronic pain patients overdosed on prescribed medication, although it is becoming more common to hear about chronic pain patients who take their own lives to escape the constant, severe pain that their doctors will no longer treat. Those of us with chronic pain already pay much more than they can afford for monthly doctor visits, urine drug screens, and expensive medication. Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy. Please reconsider this tax. Please do not tax those who suffer and are the least able to afford it, who are unlikely to ever need drug rehabilitation. Statistics vary, but when you consider previous addiction, those who have never been addicted to drugs or alcohol are very unlikely to abuse the medicine prescribed for their pain. Up to 98% will never become addicted or require rehabilitation. Taxing us will only hurt us even more.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Amesbury, MA writes:
Taxing Opioids is not the way to find addiction treatment. This is the most absurd and appalling concept imaginable.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Montgomery, TX writes:
This is ridiculous to tax those of us who are using their pain medications responsibly and have to have them to have any quality of life. People who abuse drugs have, at some point, decided to abuse their prescription meds by taking them more often and at higher quantities than prescribed. Those of us taking them for severe pain are not taking them to get high and when taken responsibly, as prescribed, are not causing "high" feelings. We take them to eliminate some of the strong pain that we deal with on a daily business. Most of us still live with a certain level of pain 24/7, but our meds help by lowering the pain enough that we can tolerate the pain. People who choose to abuse their meds should not depend on those of us who take them responsibly to pay for their rehab. It should be their responsibility to pay to clean up their own mess!!REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Duanesburg, NY writes:
I've written before and sadly received NO RESPONSE!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 5th, 2016Someone from Port Orchard, WA signed.
Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Manassas, VA writes:
TAXING painkillers? What's next? Chemotherapy taxes to fund cancer "rehab centers" where they use wishful thinking for the cure? I do not believe that the funds would be used properly. This is a witch hunt where vulnerable people are victims.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 5th, 2016Someone from Sussex, WI writes:
Don't make the people who need these medicines pay for the people who abuse them.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Jacksonville, FL writes:
I've been in pain management for 14 years withl legitimate pain with several surgeries. I use my medication responsibility. You are putting all of use in the same category and that's not fair. I need my medication to have sort of a a normal existence. Don't make the people suffer for a few bad apples . You can get off your butt and go into these doctors offices and pull charts that are responsible people and weed out the bad. Don't make all of us suffer. You can't reproduce legitimate ct and MiRI scans. Do the right thing and help the people that can't make it day to day without their medication. If you need some help in this area, I've worked for doctors for years and a home health agency, I'll show you how to do it. Susan BUrdette Someone who doesn't need to be punished.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 5th, 2016Someone from Myersville, MD writes:
Stop this insane tax,,half the people who have to take Pain Meds are worse off than most addicts financially,,This is insane and against our Human Rights to adequately get pain reliefREPORT COMMENTS
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