Letter: DEA regulation hurting veterans
http://www.inforum.com/letters/3737442-letter-dea-regulation-hurting-veterans
In the spring of 2014, the Fargo Veterans Affairs instituted the “drug reduction task force” at the order of the Drug Enforcement Agency. The drug reduction task force has been cutting off pain medications that for decades have been given to veterans suffering with life-long chronic pain, to give us quality pain-free lives.
Is it moral to needlessly and deliberately cause untold suffering to vets? This program is incremental torture of a most sinister nature.
Good doctors are leaving the VA because “their hands are tied.” They can’t keep the oath to do no harm to patients. Doctors and providers are being intimidated and threatened by the drug reduction task force with dismissal if they don’t go along with the new program.
Suicides have spiked to 22 a day since the drug reduction task force was instituted; 90 percent are aging Vietnam-era veterans.
Even a federal court order has been ignored by the drug reduction task force. They have become a power unto themselves.
Filed under: General Problems
Our Vets deserve better. They languish forever in pain and prolonged suffering.
THE VETERANS ADMIN. IS IN DISREPAIR. Overworked, overcrowded, In dire straights. The UNKNOWN SOLDIER IS JUST THAT….UNBEKNOWNST