The CDC Guidelines deny all non-cancerous chronic pain patients access to opiate therapy to improve their functionality and quality of life, even though 95% of chronic pain patients use their medications responsibly (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073133/) and as directed under the direction of at least one doctor. These patients are being given no alternatives to manage their chronic pain which will leave most self medicating with street drugs, alcohol, or even suicide. Save the innocent victims of the 'opiate epidemic' : chronic pain patients of Oregon. There are many problems with the CDC Guidelines: They were written by bias, self-serving interest groups (http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/9/24/3xz1qq23yuilyeluz63kgwckplwh21) There were no scientific study or basis for the guidelines (https://edsinfo.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/fda-endorses-biased-and-unscientific-cdc-opioid-guidelines/) The CDC itself admits that the guidelines were never meant to be policy or law. (http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54d50ceee4b05797b34869cf/t/578e661603596e40a74db59e/1468950040230/Houry+letter.pdf) (http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/7/19/cdc-opioid-guidelines-not-rule-regulation-or-law) Save chronic pain patients. Even though we are #PatientsNotAddicts we still have rights! Say NO TO THE CDC GUIDELINES AS OREGON OPIATE PRESCRIBING!

For years, the staff at St. Francis Hospital in Milwaukee's Southside has provided affordable, quality healthcare to Milwaukee because they live, love, and work in the community. But, things are about to change. Ascension Healthcare, one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the country, has officially taken over St. Francis -- and there's cause for concern: * Ascension is known for shuttering services or closing healthcare facilities completely. * Ascension is notorious for union-busting and withholding workers' wages. In Detroit, the company conspired to keep nursing wages low and was forced to pay over $13 million in back pay to the workers. * Ascension handles its debt collection through Accretive, a for-profit debt collection agency, which has been the subject of lawsuits in 10 states and was even banned from the state of Minnesota for its illegal debt collection practices. We need to stand up as a community and tell Ascension Healthcare: "We want you to keep St. Francis a community hospital!" By showing broad community support, we'll give St. Francis' staff a stronger footing for negotiating and tell Ascension that they need to listen to us if they want to do business in Milwaukee.

If you believe that students should be able to call for help without risking judicial consequences (a right that is given to students at schools across the country) then sign this petition to tell the administration to take the health and safety of students seriously!

It hurts my heart to think that thousands of Puerto Rican children could be born brain damaged and suffering from other maladies that Zika infections might bring. I am starting this petition because I am appalled that this great nation's political leaders seem to be asleep to the suffering of its citizens in Puerto Rico!

Where there is no research there can be no progress. Too many people are suffering from brain injuries caused by lack of oxygen. There are no research breakthroughs or trial medications that stimulate the brain's system. Insurance companies deny different options because most treatments are too expensive. Our loved ones deserve a second chance at living healthy and productive lives.

State after state has accepted the funding provided in the Affordable Care Act and those states have reported huge health and economic benefits. 100,000 Nebraskans have waited long enough, have suffered long enough. No more gridlock politics at the expense of those most vulnerable. No more hollow, Trumpism excuses.

Americans should have access to acupuncture as a healthcare choice. Acupuncture can help with the side effects of PTSD and possibly reduce the 22 veteran suicides per day. Help the 50 million Americans that wake up every day with chronic pain and improve quality of life for seniors by providing an alternative to opioid use. Acupuncture can help reduce healthcare costs and increase workforce productivity. Please ask your congressperson to sign-on as a co-sponsor of HR3849. Please find you congressional representative and forward them this petition by going to: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

No one will fix VA, unless the people demand it. Congress and the AFGE union at VA are ignoring military veterans, and feeding off of the profits of our suffering. VA is still denying that Agent Orange used in the Vietnam war was harmful to veterans and our descendants. This bodes ill for our new generations of warriors, exposed to toxic agents during their own more recent nservice. .

Set to go into law on July 1, HB 1411 places medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion and will strip away access for thousands of women in Florida from being able to access preventative family planning services like birth control, STD tests, and cancer screenings. This bill will have a profoundly negative impact on all Floridians, but especially those who already face systematic barriers to care, such as poor women and women of color who live in areas of the state where there is already limited access to reproductive healthcare. Access to healthcare, resources, and education should not be dependant on where you live or your socioeconomic status. All women -no matter where they live- must have access to the sex education and healthcare needed to stay healthy and decide for themselves how to prevent pregnancy, terminate an unwanted pregnancy, or carry a pregnancy to term.

Hospitals are supposed to be places of compassion, kindness, and care. In all wards that deal with physical illnesses, patients will receive that kind of care, except in the psych ward. People in psych wards across the country are being stigmatized and discriminated against by staff and sometimes abused. -When people are first admitted they are forced to put on ugly looking scrubs, that are similar to prison wear and they have their clothes and their cell phones and laptops taken from them. While they claim the scrubs are to protect people from hurting themselves and the cell phones and laptops are taken away from them for privacy. They do not do this in other wards for people with physical illnesses, making it discrimination. -Upon admittance, the nurses, staff, and doctors do not talk to the patient or get any medical history from them. Instead, they get it from the patient's caregivers and not to the patient, treating them like children. -The staff treat and talks to the patients like children. -When someone is admitted to the psych ward, they do not talk to the patient who is suicidal or in pain. They leave them alone and tell them to cope with it. -There is a shortage of beds in psych wards. Causing patients to have to stay in the ER for months at a time. -They do not provide peer specialists. -If a patient does not have a place to stay after the hospital, the doctor will discharge them into a homelessness situation. -The doctors have a poor bedside manner. -Patients who are lucid and coherent and not a threat to themselves or others are forced to be locked in the psych ward. -The staff makes inappropriate assumptions about patients based on the stigma of mental illness. -Patients sometimes face abuse at the hands of the staff. Request of the Government We ask that the federal and state governments do as follows; -Upon admittance, to the ER, for a psychiatric ailment, the nurses and doctors will talk to the patient and the caregivers -Forcing a patient to wear those ugly looking scrubs will be prohibited -Patients who are lucid and coherent will be allowed to keep their cell phones and laptops while in the hospital provided they sign a contract not to take pictures. Same goes for visitors. -A working group will be put together to teach the doctors and nurses bedside manner, and how not to stigmatize and profile someone with a mental illness. It will also teach people who work in hospitals how to talk and give hope to someone who is suicidal. It will also teach people in the Emergency rooms this too. -Requires peer specialists to work in psych wards. -Patients will not be discharged into homeless situations. -Patients will have the choice between individual and/or group therapy. -Patients who are not a danger to themselves or others will not have to be locked in the psych ward. -People who are patients in the psych ward will be treated with the same respect and courtesy as people with physical illnesses. -Require the government to give more money for beds in psych wards. -Put together a working group to help find better group treatments.

The Zika virus has officially arrived in the U.S. There are now many confirmed cases of the Zika virus in the Miami area that were contracted by local mosquitoes, not by travel abroad or sexual transmission, and the CDC has issued a travel warning to all pregnant women not to travel to Miami. That is on top of the thousands of U.S. Zika cases contracted or associated with travel to South or Central America. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress left weeks ago for their summer vacations without passing emergency funding for Zika. Outrageous! According to the CDC and other national health officials, we are unprepared for this outbreak and need this funding ASAP for prevention, research, and treatment—including a potential vaccine—of the Zika virus. Enough is enough! We need you to speak out! Write your members of Congress and tell them to come back to Washington, D.C. and pass emergency funding for the prevention and treatment of the Zika virus ASAP!

Dental amalgam is 50% Mercury, which is a known neurotoxin that adversely affects human health and the environment. Many people are not only unaware of the alternatives that are available but, more importantly, they are unaware of the harm Mercury causes to their health and the environment.