This petition is, basically, to try and stop/overturn a law that Maine's Governor (writing that makes me ashamed) Paul LePage (and writing THAT makes me wanna take a shower!) has rammed thru the legislature.
I'm a long term Chronic Pain Patient. I'm also... Or at least I used to be, a United States Marine (Hoo Ra!), a retired cop and an ill First Resonder (9/11).
What LePage has done is this: for ANYONE with chronic pain, and who has been prescribed narcotic pain medicine for a year or less; beginning 04/01/12, they will get a single 45 day supply.
If you've been prescribed these meds for longer than a year, starting 09/01/12 you will get a single, 45 day supply.
After that, you and your PCP, Pain Management doctor, etc., will "...have to come up with an alternative to opiod medications."
This is madness! What semblance of life I now have will be gone and, trust me when I say, that won't be "living", it won't be possible to get out of bed.
So, please, sign this petition; if not for me, then for someone you know who needs to continue with the little joy that being able to function (even a small amount is good) that will be taken away by LePage.
Thank You!
Bob Bailey
Now I have to go shower...
Why is this important?
This petition is about Chronic Pain Sufferers, the elderly and the disabled in the State of Maine.
These are the "disenfranchised" citizens of this once-great State who are systematically being thrown to the curb... who, in a sense, and with this law, are being "Euthanized" on the installment plan, as it were.
