The makers of suboxone took down the makers of opioids by falsely spreading lies that opioids are the cause for addiction. The cause is the illegal made drugs being funneled into the states. People were not dying from opioids TAKEN AS DIRECTED. I was on hydrocodone for 25 years and because of the CDC 2016 GUIDELINES, I no longer have anything for pain relief and I work 40 hours a week, raised 2 children starting when they were 2 and 4. I had a cervical fusion. I AM SO ANGERY I HAVE TO SUFFER BECAUSE LIES WERE SPREAD AND BECAME THE NARRATIVE! The DEA, DOJ has to remove themselves from the doctor patient relationship and let the doctors help us suffering everyday and it affects my entire family. It has gone so far that people can’t get pain management after a surgery. What world are we living in that a pharmaceutical company who wanted to be the richest put us in the situation . The people at PROP. PLEASE STOP THIS INSANITY! Doctors are being put in jail just for prescribing recommended doses. The drugs on the steeets are pressed pills with heroin, fentynal, ETC. My family physician prescribed them to me for 25 years. Make it make sense. They had me doing ketamine infusions every 4-5 weeks. I owe the hospital $9k and I was doing fine taking a $10 prescription. I hope the right person sees this and has the capacity to make change because I can’t suffer much longer. It is a miserable existence. I am tired of being labeled as an addict when I am not! This insanity has to stop. CLAUDIA MERANDI with the DOCTOR and PATIENT FORUM/DON’T PUNISH PAIN has been fighting for us. Please VOTE for her post: REFORMING RESTRICTIONS ON PAIN MANAGEMENT AND ENDING THE HARMFUL STIGMA AGAINST PAIN PATIENTS. Thank you!!!
Please help the pain community to receive adequate pain control. We have children, cancer patients, intractable pain patients all being pushed away from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies. All we want is the right to a life somewhat tolerable.
Please help us that are suffering, I’m 58 and had 14 surgeries and after losing my pain pump to infection, no one will match that dose orally though I got through the last 30 years just fine on higher doses needed for a severe condition, Please help us, we’re suffering and we’re slowly losing our will to live.
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
Correct! If you look at addicts, how long do they use with no increased need to take more? 3yrs? 5yrs, 10? People with chronic pain do not chase a high. They just want the pain to be manageable.
We know that it will never go away completely. But a person can not stay alive with pain at a level 10 that never stops. Can you even wrap your mind around having pain at a level 5 that is there day and night, minute by minute , second by second, that never ends? We, the chronic pain community, arent looking for shangri-la, we just want to be able to read an article, talk on the phone, and be able to work at our jobs for as long as possible.
Someone with chronic pain will not abuse their only hope of functioing. Pain medicine, in this population, is not abused because being without it is real, tangible, torture.
I have had to take pain medication for 40yrs. I am now 58yrs old. I have a Masters degree, and was able to work much lomger than I would have, if not for medical intervenntion and being able to take the appropriare medication therapy.
I am the face of a chronic pain sufferer. Was it the face you expected to see?