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

[M626 (MIA88)]

Proposed merge for “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

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 harm legitimate pain patients who rely on opioids …

I propose that the following 4 policy proposals, addressing the need for reforming pain management restrictions and ending the stigma against chronic pain patients, get merged:

1 @Cole_Jensen

Ban on long term & large quantity opioid prescriptions

Found this! Make sure to vote! Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients

2 @colleenconway821

Continuing the discussion from Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients:

Continuing the discussion from Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients: Thank you so much for bringing awareness to this issue. For those of us with legitimate pain and as complaint patients who submit to drug tests, use a single pharmacy, only get pain through one provider. there should be no other hoops to jump through. I am able to work 40 hours and have a productive life because I use my medication as prescribed. Without it, i would s…

#3 @Tracy24

Stop the fake opioid crisis/help the people suffering from chronic pain

Please vote for this policy. Claudia will be bringing this policy to lawmakers. Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients

#4 @daveys35

Ensure the freedom for patients to obtain life-saving opioid pain relief! repeal the cara act! amend the csa as requested by dr richard lawhern!

Please vote for this policy. Claudia who is a pain management advocate will be bring this policy before lawmakers so we need all the voets we can get. Reforming Restrictions on Pain Management and Ending the Harmful Stigma Against Pain Patients

Explanation & Justification

I propose that these policies 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 ensure that our shared goals are represented in the strongest possible way, giving us the best chance to effect meaningful change.

[TexasGrandma100 (Diane Rittenberry)]

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.

[Melissa_Schmidt]

I vote pain management by Doctors NOT Government.

[DisabledinPhilly (Sandy)]

Why is #1 on this list? That needs to be tossed i the shredder. Once again a person confabulating dependence with addiction, took his MOTHER off of pain meds and wants them BANNED! No! I will not vote for that disgusting proposal. #1 needs to go!

[DisabledinPhilly (Sandy)]

Thats what i say! The same conservatives who scream guns don’t kill, people kill will be the first in line (JD Vance) to say opioids kill. NO illegal opioids, street drugs kill. PAIN PATIENTS can’t take a pill more or we will be short and suffer. We suffer anyway because we have not a pill extra (unless we suffer and take less than prescribed a few days just in case - which is what i do) when our pharmacy says its out of stock because of a MANUFACTURED BY THE GOVT SHORTAGE which we are currently suffering through!

Those of us taking as prescribed onlu od when its INTENTIONAL…we aren’t prescribed anywhere near enough to accidentally take too much. Many of us have had our scripts lowered so we know the higher dosages are still safe and, in my case, much more effective. I used to have my pain controlled all day. NOW its a constant roller coaster of pain relief for 4 hours then watching the clock for the next 2 hours. I used to be prescribed 4-6 hours as needed until the laws were changed to no more than 90 MME. NO ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CUT DOWN under a specialists care! But we ALL WERE and it has only gotten worse since! This avuse by the government to and from the medical community needs to stop! The government needs to GET OUT OF THE DOCTORS OFFICE. They went to medical school, you didn’t! We live with this pain YOU DONT so stop acting like you know whats best for us and stop telling doctors and pharmacists how to do their jobs!

Because of your ignorant laws that lump the mental illness of addiction in with chronic pain patients, we have been subjected to immense suffering, humiliation, discrimination and being lied to. My pharmacy of 14 years had their license to dispense opioids REVOKED for ordering too many…THEY ARE LOCATED IN A HOSPITAL! Of course they are going to order more! It took me weeks to find a pharmacy close to home to take me. Everyone else said they were capped with opioid patients - THIS SHOULD NOT BE A THING! Thankfully i did find a pharmacy but they originally told me they didn’t carry my dosage. I then told the pharmacist my entire medical history and why i was switching….
Suddenly they DID have them! Then she told me about the scrutiny THEY face and only dispense when a doctor confirms need (which my doc did). But i was lied to out of FEAR THIS SHOULD NOT BE A THING EITHER.

There is no federal law that limits the dosage for established opioid patients under a specialists care. But in MY STATE the cdc guidelines for NEW opioid patients under PRIMARY CARE ONLY is THE LAW FOR ALL! This shoul not be a thing! 5 pills a day was my optimal dosage…thats one every 4-6 hours as needed. Most days 4 is enough. But some days its not. I suffer on those days. I didn’t before. But if i even TRY to talk to my doctor about going back to every 4-6 hours, i get threatened to be dismissed from the practice! Government interference has silenced us. THIS IS WRONG.

As Regan Famously said…
The 9 scariest words ever said were “im from the government and im here to help”! All the government has done is RUIN THE LIVES OF THE SICK AND DISABLED people suffering enough already! The addicts? That CHOSE to ABUSE OUR MEDICINES thats all they think about thanks to anti opioid activism…addiction is not affected by any of these laws. They just get better care than we do! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. You cannot control people. You should have learned from the failed prohibition, failed war on drugs from the 80’s and the recently failed ban on opioids in Australia that was repealed! YOU WILL NEVER STOP ADDICTION, BUT YOU CAN STOP PUNISHING THOSE SUFFERING FROM MEDICAL CONDITIONS SIMPLYYY ECAUSE ADDICTS CHOSE TO ABUSE OUR MEDS!