PHARMACIST STEVE

you will need either a laptop computer or desk top computer to do this

This blog post will be my 11,011 blog post since I started in 2012 and my blog is approaching THREE MILLION PAGE VIEWS.

I have been around the chronic pain community since 2012. There are a few things that have remained common over all those years. 

1. Here are some people who want to be a advocate and come into the community and after a few months, they discover that the community has segregated into hundreds or thousands of different groups/tribes.

2. There seems to be a lot of in-fighting within the various communities. Often resulting of a few self proclaimed pain advocates that splinter off and create a new group to advocate for the community.

3. There is a lot of what is referred to as “keyboard warriors” that do a lot of whining, bitching, moaning to others on FP and other websites. They are seemingly the same chronic painers that are waiting for some White Knight on a White Horse to come over the horizon to save their ass.

Would anyone be interested on a fairly simple process to generate letters to send to members of Congress.  The letter head at the left I just asked AI  to generate a letterhead

I asked AI to find all the members of Congress that represents my zip code. took it about 1-2 minutes to get all the contact info on my two Federal Senators and the House member for the district I was in.

You put the contact info to your 2 senators and 1 house member and you go to AI. load the letterhead as an attachment to the AI. You then tell AI that you want a letter to send those Senators and House member and you tell what the subject matter is and the “catch words” that you want to be in your letter. 

You copy the text of the letter and paste it into your letter head that the AI created.

I have found a few free fax programs that you can send at fax from your computer over the internet.

If you don’t have a word processor, there is a free word processor that is compatible with Windows’ suite  of  office software

Say.. you set up to contact your 2 Senators and 1 Representative  to send them letters. After you get it all set up. you could “pepper” them with letters EVERY WEEK, ONCE A MONTH. All you have to do is create a new text for the letter. If you email or fax your letter(s), Other than your time, the cost is ZERO. There is an estimated 100 million chronic pain pts. if 10% of those chronic pain pts could send a letter once a week. My money on is that if all those 535 members got TEN MILLION LETTERS/EMAILS A WEEK,  The community could get their attentions, especially if most of the letters state that they are going to vote for whoever that is running against the incumbent. After 53 years of the DEA overseeing the war on drugs, how much worse could it be, if we KICKED ALL THE INCUMBENTS OUT OF OFFICE – that would be 435 House members and 33-34 Senators. That is 87% of Congress that would be GONE in Jan, 2027!

Let me know if you want this “tool” to help you express your concerns to Congress. If I get little/no response, I will presume that most of the community is happy with the outcomes/changes to their access to pain management with all their whining, bitching, moaning to others on the FB pages.

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