We Must be Able to Trust Our Healthcare Providers!

Since the CDC guidelines were implemented I’ve gone from being happy and productive wife, mother, friend, and co-worker to being mostly bedridden. The CDC and the DEA have robbed me of my life, as they have of so many other chronic pain patients. A life with family, friends, work, hopes, dreams, and aspirations gone because of the United States government, the CDC, the DEA, and special interest groups.  For myself, I fear I won’t be able to witness our sons graduate from high school and college, attend our daughters weddings, or ever even hold a grandchild.

I was initially put on long-term acting opioids because my former doctor recognized that I’d had liver damage from Reyes syndrome, toxic mushroom poisoning, and Halothane anesthetic induced liver damage. I can’t take NSAIDS and acetaminophen was only doing further liver damage. Despite all of this, since the guidelines were implemented, doctors don’t care that I have liver damage or that long-acting opioids are the best choice for me. Now I’m back to taking very high doses of acetaminophen just to make life bearable. I’m back to further damaging my already damaged liver.

It has been proven that chronic pain patients do very well on opioid pain medicines, their risk of addiction is extremely low when taken as prescribed, and that the US government has based all of their findings on lies, false information, faulty data gathering methods, and false reporting of studies. The CDC has admitted to grossly altering reporting of data and faulty data gathering methods. Did you know that ANY death resulting from ILLICIT fentanyl is also reported as a prescription opioid death!? Why? Because illicit fentanyl is an analogue of prescription Fentanyl. Convenient for the US government, is it not? It meets their objectives and agendas.

The DEA has been targeting both doctors who treat chronic pain and their chronic pain patients. Chronic pain patients are now all being treated as drug seekers or addicts. Wouldn’t any reasonable person suffering daily intractable pain seek relief? YES! We are NOT drug seeker, we are pain relief seekers. We are being ignored by the medical establishment, harassed by pharmacists and insurance companies, and left to suffer without respect or human dignity.

The ONLY doctors who have been given a “free pass” (government issued waiver) to prescribe opioids are DATA 2000 addiction medicine doctors. Addiction medicine doctors can ONLY treat OPIOID ADDICTS and prescribe OPIOIDS for OPIOID ADDICTS (and pain patients with a co-occurring opioid addiction).

The US government has various agendas with regard to ignoring the basic human dignity of chronic pain patients. One involves the fact that the sales from illicit drugs makes up five percent of the GDP! That’s over eight billion dollars annually! And that doesn’t include professions who rely on the sale and consumption of illicit drugs. Another agenda involves the fact that the US government has provided prisons with guaranteed prisoner quotas.

There is no “war on drugs”. That would not be in the best interest of the greedy politicians, lobbying groups, or special interest groups who all benefit from black market drug sales.