“I am a medical doctor. I used to be board certified in pain medicine. I used to treat patients with severe chronic pain. The DEA investigated me and could find nothing wrong with what I was doing. So, they filed a complaint with my medical board. I am still allowed to practice medicine, but only under the requirement that I never again treat pain.
But that is not why I am writing. I am writing because my ex-patients and many millions of others are suffering unspeakably as a result of these government policies. One of my former patients hung himself. Another shot himself. Both were referred to other pain medicine specialists and were in treatment at the time. They could not get adequate pain relief.
The government has been trying to eliminate drug abuse by preventing the use of pain medicine for over 100 years. It hasn’t worked yet. If you understand addiction, you know that it never will. We are now seeing a nationwide spike in suicides among patients in pain. How many more have to end their own lives before the government recognizes that withholding pain treatment is not the way to address substance abuse?”
Have we moved from innocent until proven guilty… to guilty WITHOUT PROOF ? The genesis behind the whole war on drugs was The Harrison Narcotic Act 1914 was racism and bigotry toward Blacks and Chinese.
We now know were most of the illegal street drugs are coming from – Mexico and China – and yet our very government has focused their efforts towards those in the medical profession that are trying to help people with chronic pain and not against these more and more potent drugs that are killing an increasing number of mental health pts who are suffering from abusive mental health disorder.
The primary answer by our bureaucrats and politicians seems to be just try and make sure that everyone has a dose or two of Naloxone in their pocket so that they can “rescue” anyone who OD’s. I have heard stories of ONE PERSON having to be rescued with Naloxone TEN TIMES IN A SINGLE DAY. Can’t we call this “save the addict prgm” what it is.. a “catch and release prgm”. The Naloxone prgm does not appear to be helping anyone.. especially those that are abusing some substance… It is like throwing the alcoholic out of one bar and them just go down the street to the next bar and continue drinking until they get tossed out of there.
I can’t believe that the politicians are completely oblivious to what is going on with the DEA… or they just turning a blind eye. Could it be that ….
Out of a total of 435 U.S. Representatives and 100 Senators (535 total in Congress), lawyers comprise the biggest voting block of one type, making up 43% of Congress. Sixty percent of the U.S. Senate is lawyers.
Enough said. 37.2% of the House of Representatives are lawyers
According to the Congressional Research Service 170 members of the House and 60 Senators are lawyers.
http://www.answers.com/Q/What_percentage_of_US_congress_members_are_lawyers
Lawyers are in support of the judicial system… it might not be so much of a “blind eye” .. but.. they are physically/mentally part of the JUDICIAL SYSTEM and support a JUDICIAL ANSWER to the medical problem of addictive personality disorder. Could explain a lot of why we are spending 51 BILLION/yr in fighting the war on a mental disease.. just happen to be fighting it the wrong way.. with incarceration. While our open borders allows illegal drugs to readily come into our country.. It is claimed that what the DEA is able to confiscate represents only abt 1% of what actually reaches and sold on the streets.
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Thanks for post Dr. Seems that there is good cause for drs to knuckle under, so to speak. Its not just their practices at stake, more likely their lives also. How many drs have either been falsely investigated only for the fact that they decide to help the patients in pain, and because then their reputations tarnished, have lost patients and their income. Money and control seem to be the true reason behind this war. The dea , cdc, fda, yes, the very ones that can control the flow of drugs are making more money by working along side the drug cartel to make money for their covert black ops and underground bases etc.which the citizens know nothing. The cdc is changing statistics to benefit themselves. Prop has financial interests in the rehab biz, which we know works 3% of the time, but, charges thousands each month to have the priviledge of getting “treated” at. Just follow the money, see who benefits? Certainly not the lowly pain patients who cant fight back? How right you are, how many deaths , will there have to be before they have to change? Oh, but since the cdc loves to play with stats, how many suicides will be rightly addressed as suicides, not from overdose, might they have ANY opiates in their system, but because they can no longer tolerate the untreated pain!? They think more about the addicts, such as having places for them to shoot up, and narcan/naloxone at the ready to “help” them. But, the person in pain? So what, just tell them to suck it up? Right? Genocide? Suicide, call it what you want, pained lives dont matter, only the almighty dollar and the control piece by piece of our lives. I was on pain meds over 15 years, no health issues that would convince me it wasnt worth the risks so that i might live a more normal and more active life. Ive actually had more probs after my meds were taken away, the stress from pain took 20% of my brain, now have memory loss, of an 80yr old. Heart problems etc. I have 5 legitimate conditions any of which will and do cause pain. Now after 2 years no meds, none, have finally seen pain dr, who ironically wont rx pain meds, but, reccomended to my pcp i should be on pain meds. I get 2, yes 2 whole 5mg norco a day! Some people are getting opioids more powerful on the street, btw, how and where do they acquire them from? Who gains?
They don’t care about chronic pain patients. They have a one track mind with blinders on.
hmmm,,data for job security??mary