Stop the Opiate Tax aka The Lifeboat Act
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Woodbridge, VA writes:
Why should I have to pay for people tha abuse their prescription medication?? I've been in pain management for 5 years and I get drug tested every 3 months and follow the rules!! There are people that won't be able to afford their medication which then increase the suicide rate! Stop try to control MY health treatment and punishing the ones that follow the laws!! I can only hope that the polticians that vote for this to be stricken with chronic pain so you'll know what it feels like to live this way 365 days a year. -
Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Plano, TX writes:
There is a big difference between addiction and manage chronic pain. Find a Dr that requires urine tests to make sure are not abusing them.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Mexico, MO writes:
To penalize people with disabilities that require opioids to control the pain they live with on a daily basis is a form of discrimination. Patients are already being under medicated after surgeries, losing their doctors or are being refused pain medications for the treatment of chronic pain due to the fear of addiction being promoted. This is a form of torture! Drug addicts go to the streets to find Heroin not a doctor! More people die from abusing Alcohol or a Drunk Driver than from taking a prescription pain medication! Stop harassing & penalizing Chronic Pain Patients by clumping they in with Addicts!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 5th, 2016Someone from Port Chester, NY writes:
This is discriminatory against the disabled.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Urbandale, IA writes:
Why are legitimate pain patients being punished for addicts?? Do you want us to kill ourselves? I was a lifelong democrat - no more. Not until you start protecting actual pain sufferers gather than punish us.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 5th, 2016Someone from Sparks, NV writes:
This is ridiculous! This is turning a "Witch Hunt" and legitimate Chronic Pain Patients are the silent casualties of this latest facet in "The War on Drugs"! Chronic Pain Patients with years upon years with the same doctor, files inches thick PROVEN their condition and their need for therapeutic use of Opiod meds long term are COMMITTING SUICIDE because they're meds are being taken away and the pain they feel 24/7/365 is too much to handle! Stop feeding thus hysteria! Stop hurting legitimate PATIENTS that need these meds! HELP US A PAIN PATIENTS GET RID OF OUR PAIN, NOT MAKE OUR LIVES WORSE!!REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Bothell, WA writes:
Sure, "the insurance money will cover it patients will never see the cost"... that only works when people have prescription drug coverage and there are boatloads of people without it in this country! Also what about those who have to pay a percentage of their prescription drugs, of COURSE I'll see that cost! SMH.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Beaverton, OR writes:
In the US there are 40,000,000 chronic pain patients relying on daily opiates to survive through agonizing chronic pain. Even with that, is it any surprise that up to 95% of suicides can be attributed to chronic pain? In an age where we have the ability to relieve pain, why are we allowing our citizens to turn to suicide as means of pain management. 95% of 44,000 suicides a year... Compare that to the less than 20,000 OD's due to opiates. AND THAT'S NOT EVEN PRESCRIPTION OPIATES. In that number is included heroin deaths, illegal opiates, and people that take their other than as prescribed. Those dying from under-treated chronic pain, that is the real epidemic we should be worried about. How is it right that chronic pain patients, who have no choice but to take opiates to survive their chronic conditions, will be footing the bill for addiction services especially since (according to the NIH) less than 3% of chronic pain patients become addicted. You limit and reduce and tax our medications... Would you do that to any other medication? Where do you draw the line? Maybe we should tax chemotherapy? Or antidepressants? Or anxiety medications? Why are opiates singled out when it's not prescription opiates that are the issue? Benzo's like Xanax are just as abused and just as deadly and yet no one is talking about that because anxiety and depression are more socially accepted than chronic pain. This is a discriminatory law that criminalizes chronic pain patients, singling them out for their medical condition-- a condition which we have ZERO control over. We will not be second class citizens. We are human. We deserve dignity. We deserve equal protection under our law. We are #PatientsNotAddicts and we deserve a voice in this conversation, which continues to be denied to us. We need to find a way to treat addiction that does not jeopardize the care and treatment of chronic pain patients. It's completely possible to treat two opposing conditions at once. We cannot limit opiates and kill chronic pain patients in a false effort to cure addiction. We have to learn from the mistakes we made in the past, like with the unsuccessful 'War on Drugs', and realize that limiting opiates is not the solution. Chronic pain patients should not be judged based on our medical condition any more than someone should be judged based on their skin color, sexuality, or sex. WE HAVE RIGHTS!! We are #PatientsNotAddicts and we are going to fight tooth and nail to be heard, because for us this is a life and death battle. A battle we will win.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 5th, 2016Someone from Palmer, AK signed.
Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Ypsilanti, MI writes:
Addicts don't buy their meds from a pharmacy they get their drugs by stealing or on the streets. You are taxing individuals who are taking the meds properly for chronic pain problems.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from High Point, NC writes:
THIS IS PAST HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS! IT IS DOMESTIC TERRORISM ON CHRONIC PAIN SUFFERERS BY OUR OWN FRIGGING GOVERNMENT! And it is mega discrimination ! When I was a police officer we called it SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT! CALL The President IMMEDIATELY! Please!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 5th, 2016Someone from Long Beach, CA writes:
I'm a chronic pain suffer!!! A warrior trying to survive !! Don't make our fight worse than what already is . We deserve fair treatment ! We are ill , we are #PaientsNotAdfictsREPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Saint Francis, MN writes:
This tax would put a unfair burden on the disabled, elderly, those on fixed income, who suffer with chronic pain. Plus it puts a unfair burden on people who have just had major surgery. Let's not forget the extra burden you'd be putting on cancer and hospice patients. Do you honestly think they will have the energy to fill out papers so they can try and get their money back? That's heartless! The entire idea of taxing opiod medication is discrimination against patients who have to take this medication and do so responsibily.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Dubuque, IA writes:
Why should I be punished for taking a prescription I need to survive daily? This isn't a tax for treatment of those with an abusive addiction it's a tax to punish law abiding citizens who need an opioid pain relief to function and it is ********.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 5th, 2016Someone from Bedford, TX writes:
Please don't make life even more difficult for chronic pain patients, many of whom, like myself, are unemployed due to their poor health. This tax is really a punitive strike against people who are already struggling so hard to make it within our broken social systems.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Kapolei, HI writes:
Are you CRAZY and blind? Chronic pain patients are being FORCED to live miserable lives.. or they commit suicide. THANKS.REPORT COMMENTS
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