I recently read an article online that said that the Obama administration was shifting focus from Mexican druglords to law-abiding doctors and pharmacists as a matter of policy to be enforced by the DEA. I only later questioned the info but I did follow up and got absolutely no clarification from the alleged source.
Most of the comments were in support. Beyond deplorable.
The first time a dentist told me that drs were being harassed I was stunned and incredulous. That was over 20 years ago. Matters have deteriorated significantly.
None of the blather I have read in the media is EVER backed up by any form of research. I have yet to see it. They merely fabricate the number of od's although I would contend that when overdoses do occur it is because people are mixing their substances and shooting them up.
Regardless to any facts, the mood in the country toward pain patients is one of mass hysteria. That people have their facts wrong, do not bother to research anything within even within their own personal educational limits, seems to matter not a whit. They KNOW.
People are suffering. As we well know, far too many are not suffering from a negligible or even tolerable amount of pain. TN pain is right off the charts! Can a description be any more explicit than the "suicide disease"?
People are being denied any quality to their lives. TO WHAT PURPOSE?
Far too many medical professionals and paraprofessionals are also exhibiting the hysteria. Their job is to help pain patients, not to harass them! Some tell bald faced lies. Specialists are often trained to hold their pain patients in contempt.
People with terminal cancer are far too often NOT afforded any real pain coverage. I have seen it repeatedly first hand. People- friends, relatives screaming in pain and the drugs may be sitting right there, with held by "care-givers" or ignorant, oblivious family members. It may go on when they are at work.
History will look back at these times as barbaric. But these have to be the worst times politically to be suffering from extreme, often relentless, intolerable pain in this country.
Unless we fight back. Unless we get politically pro-active agony, suffering is going to continue its downward plunge.
Those worthy of scorn are not only the handful of abusers but could be the person that may be in training to be your next so-called healthcare pain professional or your neighbor who points.
Doctors should be free to do their jobs and not answer to the federal government!
Our representatives have to hear about it as they read the same blather on the Internet that the rest of us read. People in severe pain are in the millions.