Proposed merge for "Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients

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Proposed merge for “Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients”

I propose that the following four policy proposals, addressing the need to reform pain management restrictions and end the stigma against chronic pain patients, be merged into this policy: Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients

(Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients), to consolidate efforts and present a unified, impactful proposal.

1 @Cole_Jensen

2 @colleenconway821

3 @Tracy24

4 @daveys35

Explanation & Justification

These policies should be merged because they all focus on reforming restrictions on pain management and reducing the stigma against chronic pain patients. While each policy raises important points, consolidating them into one comprehensive proposal will strengthen our collective voice and increase the likelihood of being taken seriously by lawmakers.

The policy I’ve submitted currently has the most engagement and detailed contributions, including input from chronic pain patients and advocates. It has gained significant traction with over 1,800 votes, making it a strong candidate to serve as the main proposal moving forward. Since this policy is intended to be presented to lawmakers, it is crucial to combine our efforts and focus on one unified proposal to ensure clarity, impact, and alignment.

Merging these proposals will amplify the voices of chronic pain patients and their advocates while ensuring lawmakers are presented with a comprehensive, unified argument. This combined effort aligns our shared goals into a singular, impactful message.

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I am disturbed with what is going on in our state and country regarding Opoid Hysteria

Since the DEA PROP and CDC have illegally began Opoid Prohibitions,’In The Chronic Pain Community suicides have risen dramatically some say 400% (disturbingly, many among our Veterans). #MedicalTyranny

Gary Mendell, Chad Brummett, Andrew Kolondy and Dr Tom Frieden have been paid over 20 million dollars for speaking out against opioids. Since they have been given a platform, deadly od’s & suicides have gone up dramatically. ABJECT FAILURE!!
#SuicideDue2Pain

The Doctor Patient Forum and some brave doctors are fighting for our Constitutional Rights to be prescribed FDA approved safe Opiates under our doctors care.

Legitimate Drs who adhere to their hippocratic Oath are being persecuted Many have lost their licenses hence their livelihood. Some have lost their homes and families. Some have been imprisoned. They are precisely targeted if they treat patients who suffer from chronic intractable pain with opioids especially if they are also prescribed benzodiazepines. These compassionate doctors are paying the price while the real criminals walk across our border uninhibited SMH.

The Government Alphabet Agencies are waging war and blitzkrieging across the US and I am informing you that they are persecuting the wrong group of people.

I am a senior citizen and my background is clean as a whistle and yet I am treated like a criminal or a toddler.
Why would I wait til I am a senior citizen and all of a sudden decide to become and addict or a criminal??? I personally insist on freedom to chose how I will be medically treated for the remainder of my life. My other option is, according to my back surgeon, multilevel fusion in my neck and lumbar (look it up) and knee and hip replacement. I have other age related issues too many to list I just want to be able to hang out with my grandchildren I have missed so much already because of this unrealistic reaction to medication that actually improves my quality of life and affords me the ability to get up and go. I’ll never get those volleyball games and football games back.

I know there are people with way worse chronic illnesses than me and they are needlessly suffering, Why??? The government needs to stay OUT OF MY DOCTORS OFFICE!!! That privacy is confidential and my Constitutional Right for Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

OPIATES DO NOT KILL they are inanimate objects just like our guns.

I am hoping you will check into this most urgent crisis. People are suffering needlessly.
I heard that RFK is advocating for Medical Freedom. I’m checking into that next.

Thank you for making this a priority

Sincerely
Diane Rittenberry
Grandma from Texas.

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I vote for Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients

For too long injured, people who have had complications from bad surgeries or just bad luck, are suffering and at a minimum deserved respite from pain. And deserve to access pain medication without stigma without an ounce of shame. It should be seen and treated no differently than hearth medication necessary to prevent heart attacks.

Our American work force, labor force, has been curtailed from the lack of access to opoids, either for pain management from repetitive labor or from the inability to go get surgery because post surgical pain management is not an option; leaving skilled workers hands tied.

Then, we have the victims of car accidents. Rear ended, spinal injuries which maybe cannot be foxed from surgery. These people are victims who at a minimum require pain manangement just to sleep!

As a long term CPP, with compliations that more surgeries put me at a great risk of morality - I plead with any high level people - please ensure access of opiods to we responsible pain patients. Because not only do we deserve them as a human right, we need them to progress and move forward into out next chapter. And thank you so much to the beautiful advocates, like Claudia Merandi. A godsend angel!

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I vote for pain management to be controlled by the Dr not gov

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I vote for Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients

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How do we vote on this? This madness has to stop, pain patients aren’t criminals.

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How do we vote on this topic?

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Just click vote on the top left!

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Just click vote on the top left!

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My daughter was admitted into the ER for a displaced compound tibia and fibia fracture through the growth plates. They had to reduce the fracture twice, casted it even though there was extreme swelling, she’s going to require surgery - multiple surgeries in the future. And they sent her away from the ER telling us that Tylenol and ibuprofen would be sufficient. It was not, it was barbaric. Now that I know that she could have gone into shock, the cast was actually causing compartment syndrome, and the doctors were afraid to treat her pain or even check her or the cast and warned us about the opioid crisis and addiction… at the age of 10 after a level 3 trauma ( their coding not ours)… and we had two ER doctors telling us that she was probably just anxious… led me down a rabbit hole that has since shocked me. Shall we go back to bite blocks? Surgeries without anesthesia? We already want to remove pain as the fifth threshold for treatment… how dare our government allow this to happen to mostly children, women and the vulnerable. I want the DEA out of this completely, it’s done nothing but make the opioid crisis and elicit illegal fentanyl worse. And my 10-year-old daughter had to pay the price which is unacceptable. We were treated like possible addicts and these are the same doctors that living in my state are the only doctors “qualified” for these future surgeries. How are parents supposed to trust medical care when doctors are more concerned about not pissing off the DEA and insurance companies who are incentivized to use less effective medication and let children suffer. She was shaking, chattering, crying uncontrollably and I was told she was just “anxious”. No… she was in pain. Extreme, traumatic pain. That could have been managed. I’m not saying that a broken bone isn’t going to hurt, however, it has been proven that we heal better when our pain is treated. And as a parent, I didn’t need a lecture about an opioid crisis that I did not create that I’m not feeding with bad policy that’s affecting families in ways that we are not going to be able to come back from. Pain patient suicide has gone up 400 percent. Not from addiction, from the inability to live life without pain because treatment is being taken away, medication is being taken away. These are people that are not abusing their prescriptions. We’re taking pain medication away from terminal cancer patients, rheumatoid arthritis patients who are in their '80s being told that they don’t want to be addicted or become addicted, from my 10-year-old daughter who broke her leg in a bicycle accident and was told to trust doctors while doctors basically treated her like a guinea pig… and lied to us and told us that this is the standard of care. When I found out that they were trying to save their own rears, it was a lie and that this kind of fracture is considered extremely painful and every single medical textbook I’ve been able to get my hands on has said it and needs to be treated with pain medication stronger than Tylenol and ibuprofen for at least the first 48 hours… livid. How about these people making these policies get a break to the tibia and fibia through a growth plate, displaced, compound fracture and we throw some Tylenol and ibuprofen at you? It’s awful. It’s horrible. My daughter could have died and these doctors are more worried about making the DEA happy then treating patients. That caused us harm. My daughter was harmed by that… we as a family were harmed by this…

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Objective To remove excessive restrictions and barriers that prevent chronic pain patients from accessing necessary medication, end the punitive “war on opioids,” and shift focus to compassionate, patient-centered care that allows pain patients to live with dignity and reduced suffering. Background The opioid crisis has led to sweeping policies aimed at curbing misuse and addiction. However, these one-size-fits-all policies disproportionately harms legitimate pain patients who rely on opioids …

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I don’t see a way to vote. They continue to say on left but there is nothing to vote on left or right. Has anyone found a way because everyone is just making a comment that they vote but that is not counting