Stop the Opiate Tax aka The Lifeboat Act
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Jun 24th, 2016Someone from Hoffman Estates, IL signed.
Jun 23rd, 2016Someone from Redmond, OR writes:
I can't believe I am reading this. Are you people stupid or just down right mean? Your certainly insulting and making things worse than ebtter. Go after the druggies...they always get there fix! Leave us alone...we are not the criminals!Jun 23rd, 2016Someone from Tampa, FL signed.
Jun 22nd, 2016Someone from Angola, NY signed.
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Jun 22nd, 2016Someone from Streamwood, IL signed.
Jun 21st, 2016Someone from Alexandria, MO writes:
No one besides my Doctor and I should have any say so what I take for pain. I am not a drug addict and never have and will never be. Before I started taking my pain medicine my life was hell and now I have painless hours at a time.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 21st, 2016Someone from Streamwood, IL signed.
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Jun 20th, 2016Someone from Carmel, CA writes:
If this isn't adding insult to injury, I don't know what is. I didn't ask for daily migraine, CRPS, a dissolving skull, nor excruciating low back pain. I didn't ask to be put on OxyContin. In fact, I resisted for a year trying every other therapy known to man until everything else failed. So now I'm going to be taxed because some who take this drug becom addicted? This isn't a recreation. My pain isn't a weekend at the beach! Pardon me if I sound offended, I am!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 19th, 2016Someone from Waller, TX writes:
I am tired of being treated like a criminal because of the criminal conduct of a very small proportion of others. I spent almost ten years trying every treatment out there before accepting that I needed pain management via "narcotics" just so I could get out of bed without literally screaming from the pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 19th, 2016Someone from Beaverton, OR writes:
Are you freaking kidding. How much more must we take. You know we are a population in terrible pain all the time and most of us can barely get out of bed anymore. It is hard for us to fight back, if we even know what is happening with pain medications. And though I am now off pain meds, this is a ridiculous bill. Why does the government need to punish us so much?! This is just wrong. And so is the CDC's guidelines on pain meds. I would prefer you just shoot me now.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 19th, 2016Someone from Fort Bragg, CA writes:
We already have to fight tooth and nail and suffer the humiliation of being treated as if we are drug addicts just to get treatment for our chronic pain. Now you also want us to pay for the real addicts rehab programs? What's next? They'll get convicted of a crime and we'll have to do their prison time? Maybe we could be their human shields and bodyguards when they're out on the streets looking for illegal drugs. I can promise you, they aren't getting them from me.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 19th, 2016Someone from Vallejo, CA signed.
Jun 18th, 2016Someone from Winnetka, IL writes:
Seriously? The chronic pain community is already suffering enough and can barely afford their medication, or even get it prescribed! Taxing the people who use their medication wisely for those who don't is horrifying. This is a disabled population! This must not be allowed!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 18th, 2016Someone from San Antonio, TX signed.
Jun 18th, 2016Someone from Oshkosh, WI writes:
This really is the most lame brained idea that I have heard, I believe it was because it took no thought or follow through, this latest attack on Pain Medication, you just want to slap them silly for being so stupid.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 17th, 2016Someone from Rockford, IL writes:
Why add an additional tax on those of us who NEED, not want, pain relief.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 17th, 2016Someone from Honolulu, HI writes:
do the right thing and assist those in need.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 17th, 2016Someone from Milford, MI writes:
stop punishing the 99% who need the opioids to get a little relief from chronic pain during the dayREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 17th, 2016Someone from Sheboygan Falls, WI signed.
Jun 17th, 2016Someone from Milford, MI writes:
stop punishing the 99% who need the opioids to get a little relief from chronic pain during the dayREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 17th, 2016Someone from Allentown, PA signed.
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Jun 16th, 2016Someone from Grand Rapids, MI signed.
Jun 16th, 2016Someone from Royston, GA writes:
Invite me to your hearing on this account. I am who. Suffers every day from chronic pain and discomfort and fatigue,and I have to survive on my disability insurance and now you want me to pay more.my credit is ruined my life I live day to day by the Grace of God.please let me come look you in the eyes and tell you the difference between me and those who do it for pleasureREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 16th, 2016Someone from Wyoming, MI writes:
I will gladly switch my life for yours to get rid of the chronic pain I have that was caused by a doctor that did a hip replacement I did not need to commit insurance fraud. In MI, doctors are protected from being sued. I had a job as an RN. I graduated from GVSU woth a 3.999 GPa and was accepted into U of M's nurse anesthesist program before all this happened. I also have a quality engibeering degree. We are not drug addicts. I would give anything to turn back time and say no to the doctor so I would not lose my life, my job, my family, my future. My disease has no cure and it will eventually move to my organs and I will die. So please balc off the pain medications. If you want to help drug addicts, use the mo ey you seize in drug raids.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 16th, 2016Someone from Smock, PA signed.
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Jun 16th, 2016Someone from Corona, CA writes:
I am a back and chronic pain sufferer. I have to take multiple medications that are WAY more dangerous than the oxycodone that I take so I can have some semblance of quality of life. Some days I cannot even get out of bed in the morning. My caretaker has to bring me my medicine in bed. I do not want to be on this medication, but I cannot move or even go out to a dinner with friends for a few hours without them. I am NOT addicted, I do not misuse my medication, and I follow every rule and guideline. I would not be able to afford a tax on my opiate, seeing as I have no job, (I was a surgical nurse for 20 years) cannot work, and am fighting for my ssdi that I payed into while working for all those years. Without this quality of life medication, I would not be able to function period. I only take 15mg's three times a day, which is a low dose for someone in my condition. If this passes, there are going to be many suicides and people turning to illegal street drugs and pills that can kill much better than someone's pain script. Addicts are going to get their drugs any way they can, and are going to eventually die of overdose or complications due to use. Also, there are counterfeit pills out there that are laced with fentanyl, and are killing people. The majority of us legitimate chronic pain sufferers follow all the rules, and are still being lumped in with the addicts. It is a sad situation, because us chronic pain sufferers are the ones getting hurt by all of this.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 16th, 2016Someone from Twisp, WA writes:
Actual pain patients, who use their meds as prescribed, are already being punished in horrible ways because of people who get their drugs illegally and overdose. Now they have to fund rehab for those people? Are you kidding me? The junkies aren't buying their meds at the local drug store. They won't be bothered by this one bit. Once again, the innocent patients will pay the price. Literally.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 16th, 2016Someone from Canton, MI writes:
This is ludicrous and terrible to make the sickest and people with the highest pain Be "punished" for not being healthy! People with chronic illnesses don't have much money and this is discriminatory to the max!! Help ADA where are you?? I cannot be punished for being sick! Make the addicts pay for their own treatment center! I'm not an addict and you need to learn the difference #peopleinpainuniteREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 16th, 2016Someone from Canton, MI writes:
This is ludicrous and terrible to make the sickest and people with the highest pain Be "punished" for not being healthy! People with chronic illnesses don't have much money and this is discriminatory to the max!! Help ADA where are you?? I cannot be punished for being sick! Make the addicts pay for their own treatment center! I'm not an addict and you need to learn the difference #peopleinpainuniteREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 16th, 2016Someone from Dallas, TX writes:
Taxing medications that help chronic patients have some quality of life is despicable. The senators proposing this have no compassion. The pain community is 100,000.000 million strong and are fed up!.Tax our medications after all we've had to endure just to able to be treated with opioids and it will be like pouring gasoline on a fire. We have had enough!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 15th, 2016Someone from Dayton, OH signed.
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