We are trying to keep our people who are suffering from chronic intractable pain from being lumped in with the addicts. We are not addicts; we are people who have cancer, Crohn's, failed back surgeries, accidents, Adhesive Arachnoiditis, and so many more diseases, injuries, or illnesses that require us to take pain medication to survive.
Why is this important?
So many chronic intractable pain patients have been tapered down or off of their pain medication when it was proven to work for that patient and now many of us are committing suicide and that's the crisis. It's not opiate pain pills people are overdosing on, it's heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl, and that's where your target needs to be, not in the doctor's office.
