That freaks me completely out. Why do I need a locking bottle with single pill access? I am a grown up adult with a college degree and a great career, taken away from me by my disability. No, I am not in favor of ANYTHING that continues to give stigma toward the patient. We patients are NOT the problem!
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I had two surgeries and was given 12 pain pills. This is awful. I screamed in pain for weeks with no help from doctors. These laws need to be abolished for people in REAL pain after surgeries.
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I need knee replacement now. I refuse to get it done and will continue to hobble because I know the pain involved from my last knee replacement. I was put on high doses of opioids and still had some pain. I had my left knee done in 2014 before the CDC junk guidelines came out. Because it was close to Christmas my prescription was aday late getting filled and the pain wasso horrendous i had to go to the ER. Thankfully back then when health care actually had the " care" in it the ER gave me enough medication until my prescription could be filled. With the draconian treatment of pain patients now⌠illwear that knee down to a nub before i go through that kond of pain without proper pain treatment. I am61 and i went from beng able to garden, do all kinds of activities to basically being in bed because of the government draconian treatment of people in pain. I didnât ask for all the injuries ihave had. Every doctor has told me " i know you need more medication to not suffer but i cant lose my license because the DEA will be at my door if I give you what it would take toget you out of pain. " Government forces doctors to go through vigilant training and education to be licensed but then doesnât trust themto do their job.? DEA dos not have medical professionals and they get our medical records without our permission. SoHiPPA is worthless. Thats what America hascome to. Just thonk of all the new government agencies the government can spend money on by making these medications the "boogeyman ". OUD another junk phrase that does not bear out in real patients. Addiction? CDC lied on that one. Yeah they corrected it but too late damage was done. Individual healthcare is dead. Thanks to the government.
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Remove all laws made based off CDC misinformation Disinformation so called Opioid Crisis which is now made into Illicit Street Fetenayl and remove all drug cartels from the Peopleâs House and Senate
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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
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AgreeâŚand theyâre already using these pill bottles!
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I agree with this, any reason you didnât merge with reforming stigma against opioids?
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Part of the scandal seems to be how many people suffer from chronic pain⌠and no tools seem available, or researched, to solve the problem at its roots.
not having pain, at all, needs to be the goal.
but yes, in the meantime, people suffering from pain need at least decent medication.
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Allow Drs to prescribe pain meds as they were intended and created for. Stop the government from confusing law abiding patients in chronic pain with non law abiding street drug addicts, forcing patients to suffer or pay for narcan prescriptions and drug tests if treated at all, while providing free everything for addicts keeping them addicted (methadone, suboxone, narcan, paraphernalia & fentanyl test strips etc) so can continue illegal drug activity. The populations are NOT the same. Hurting and killing patients who suffer daily and stigmatizing them. Inhumane and unethical the gov has created this with cdc guidelines, and overreach including making Drs afraid to prescribe with DEA threats, & pharmacist interference because of the bias misinformation.
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I suspect that the two groups are not very different.
all people who use these kinds of substance - legal or illegal, prescribed by a doctor or self medicated - suffer from something thatâs just too hard to bear.
when they take their substance, they get some relief from the nightmare.
have understanding for all of them, and give everybody what they need to cope.
and, long term, work on root causes, so the dose can eventually be reduced or even wholly stopped in the best of cases.
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I agree with this. As a practicing oncologist, I witnessed any number of patients who experienced great difficulty getting prescriptions for pain medication filled. Pharmacies will frequently tell patients to go elsewhere because they supposedly donât carry those meds, even though they did prior to the demonization of opiates. The real reason is that they (pharmacies) are scared of liability and demonization themselves. Basically, we threw out the baby with the bathwater by making opiates so hard to get that cancer patients have sufferedâŚ
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Barbara- I believe the difference is this: People who use opiates illegally (without a prescription) are making a choice to do something illegal, mostly to escape the pain of daily living. (you can argue, I guess, if thatâs a reasonable thing to do. Most Americans would say no.) In contrast, cancer patients who use prescribed opiates for pain relief didnât have a choice as to what happened to them. Particularly for people with advanced cancers, there may be nothing else they CAN do. Further, those of us who treat cancer patients know all too well the limits of what can be done to âcureâ a malignancy. But as I tell my trainees, If nothing else, we can relieve their pain. And I believe that relieving pain is an appropriate and important part of what physicians are called upon to do. Many people with advanced or recurrent cancer will need pain relief with opiates for the rest of their lives, which are usually short. And I am fine with that. If a patient has an incurable cancer, I give them whatever it takes. The dose doesnât matter.
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I donât judge anyone snd I believe everybody using opiates has some sort of unbearable pain. else they would not do it.
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I do wholeheartedly believe that a lot of my chronic inflammation stems from the chemicals & toxins in and on our food, you can wash it all you want the poisons are installed into the seeds to make them resistant to fungus and bacteriaâs to keep food from spoiling, we have GMO foods that are horrible in our bodies & even chemicals in beauty & lotion products, our skin is the largest organ in our bodies & absorbs absolutely everything thatâs toxic. There are chemicals and poisons in and on our food that is OUTLAWED IN OTHER COUNTRIES~ MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN!
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We donât need anymore nanny state controls. The people who were abusing pain medicine just moved on to something else (like suboxone or anything else they could get) while actual patients with painful conditions were left to suffer. Since the PDMPs were implemented, "doctor shopping " has been halted. Now itâs so bad, people are being tortured and are going to the streets, in some casesâŚwe can treat pain without the over regulations.
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As i read it, the cdc stated the rules were only for NEW opioid patients ONLY primary care. But the anti opioid activists made these blanket law for all. The CDC even came out basically saying NO YOURE DOING IT WRONG but took 6 years to revise which was ample time for states to make those recommendations law for all. I agree though, all these laws should be repealed. I suffer every day because of them. And cares act lol it should be the we only care about addicts choosing to abuse our meds act.
Truly infuristing.
Agreed but not for everyone. I have a broken nervous system from cancer. No amount of healthy food will fix this or lessen the excruciating, widespread pain i feel every second of every day. But i do believe cleaning up the food would help millions, just that its irrelevant to this discussion.
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Yes this, exactly!
Not just cancer patients. Believe it or not, every body is different, every cancer is different. I had ovarian cancer. It left me with nerve damage and hyperpots. I experience 100x more pain with my current conditions than i ever did from my cancer. I am sick and tired of people pretending that cancer pain is the worst pain someone can have. At peast cancer patients werent drastically reduced in dosage and arenât scrutinized every time its time for a refill because they are exempt from all laws and policiesâŚeven though not all cancers are the same and not all cancers kill and not all cancers are the worst pain compared to some chronic conditions.
But i agree 1000000% about the demonization and lies being told by pharmacies. When i had cancer, there were shortages because the pope came to town. Meds couldnât get into the city. I finally found a walgreens that had it and the pharmacist told me he didnât think i needed my script, flagged it so i couldnât fill it anywhere and ended up in the hospital for my meds because it was friday afternoon and my doctor was gone for the weekend. Walgreens said we allow it! They should have no right to supercede our doctors orders!
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