Vilified and Coerced, Pain Patients are Desperate

On January 28th, the CDC will meet for a final public hearing at which pain advocates and public citizens will speak out against both the restriction of pain management as well as speak in favor of it.
Many individuals wrote letters to the CDC begging them to reconsider this guideline. The CDC has been so focused on the addiction crisis in the US that the chronic pain epidemic is not on the public’s radar.
This excellent post by EDSinfo.wordpress.com expresses the plight of our country’s worst suffering. Please do not look the other way. These words below express what could be your mother, brother, or your child.

EDS and Chronic Pain News & Info

Vilified and Coerced, Pain Patients are Desperate 

In no other medical field are patients subject to such vilification, suspicion, and coercion as in pain management.  Chronic pain patients have been abandoned in the blind rush to “protect” us from addiction to opioids, without concern for their legitimate use as pain relievers of last resort.

Those of us that require opiate medication for pain are treated like criminals.  We must sign away our privacy and allow our medical records to be scrutinized by law enforcement, the DEA, or any third party private contractor working as a “drug warrior”.  If we don’t sign, we don’t get treatment–this is blatant coercion.

Already struggling to make life worthwhile in my painfully broken body, I must now face additional hardship, expense, and obstacles legislated by my government.

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