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Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers: The DEA’s War on Prescription Painkillers
Executive Summary
The medical field of treating chronic pain is still in its infancy. It was only in the late 1980s that leading physicians trained in treating the chronic pain of terminally ill cancer patients began to recommend that the “opioid therapy”(treatment involving narcotics related to opium) used on their patients also be used for patients suffering from non terminal conditions. The new therapies proved successful, and prescription pain medications saw a huge leap in sales throughout the 1990s. But opioid therapy has always been controversial. The habit-forming nature of some prescription pain medications made many physicians, medical boards, and law enforcement officials wary of their use in treating acute pain in non terminal patients. Consequently, many physicians and pain specialists have shied away from opioid treatment, causing millions of Americans to suffer from chronic pain even as therapies were available to treat it.
The problem was exacerbated when the media began reporting that the popular narcotic pain medication OxyContin was finding its way to the black market for illicit drugs, resulting in an outbreak of related crime, overdoses, and deaths. Though many of those reports proved to be exaggerated or unfounded, critics in Congress and the Department of Justice scolded the U.S.Drug Enforcement Administration for the alleged pervasiveness of OxyContin abuse.
The DEA responded with an aggressive plan to eradicate the illegal use or “diversion” of OxyContin. The plan uses familiar law enforcemet methods from the War on Drugs, such as aggressive undercover investigation, asset forfeiture, and informers. The DEA’s painkiller campaign has cast a chill over the doctor-patient candor necessary for successful treatment. It has resulted in the pursuit and prosecution of well-meaning doctors. It has also scared many doctors out of pain management altogether, and likely persuaded others not to enter it, thus worsening the already widespread problem of underrated untreated chronic pain.
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This is true,,,,they ,,the government,klonodyn has made it a felony for doctors to treat the medically ill in physical pain,,,Seriously!!!!Klonodyns propaganda and thee complete abuse of power by our government has now made,,treating the medically ill EFFECTIVELY with MEDICINES,, a crime Klonodyn has made what was once,right, good and just,,,a evil act,He has made all adults who should be free once again to decide what we put in our bodies,he has taken that freedom away.,He has made treating the medically ill in physical pain w/effective medicine a ,’bad,” thing,,When it is never wrong to help thee medically ill,,Since when has our doctors,our society allowed 1 man to twist,to plot,to scheme,TO KILL,TO DESTROY a entire field of medicine.
ALL HUMANBEINGS TREATED in/by the field of medicine,should be disgusted at what this so-called man has done,and gotten away with it, ?Why has no-one in a position to do so say,,,NO KLONODYN,,U ARE WRONG!!!,,Now,, when is it a crime to effectively treat the medically ill,,is about time to stand up and tell this psychopath,,he’s pure evil,crazy and wrong??KLONODYN,,,U R WRONG!!!!!!!DEA U R WRONG,,,ADDICTION BULLSHITTERS,,U ARE WRONG!!!!
This is why they are all wrong,,,people are dieing.They are ;literally being tortured to death,by their physical pain from medical conditions w/no medicine to lessen their physical suffering,,because klonodyn,the government has made it a felony to effectively treat the medically ill.,.People are choosen death,to stop their physical pain because a so-call men perversed ,disturbing idealogy has preached to the world,that treating the medically ill in physical pain from that medical illness are nothing more then ,”addicts,’and their doctors felons’,,A LIE,,,THEY ARE ALL MEDICALLY ILL HUMAN BEINGS!!! Men/women who decide to devote their life to helping the medically ill,NOT FELONS.He flew over to England to preach his evil redirects over there,,again,,saying the medically ill in physical pain are drug addicts,,a slaNDEROUS inhumane method to discredit all he need MEDICINE . to treat a medical illness.
You know,,when a person,,takes all that is good,THAT IS MORAL,HUMANE,just, in the field of medicine,,and twisted that goodness into a evil act,, HE IS the one who is WRONG!!!NOT THE MEDICALLY ILL OR THE DOCORS WHO TREAT US EFFECTIVELY.For it is the right,just ,humane act to treat the medically ill w/medicines that will lessen their physical suffering from their illness,,THAT IS THE RIGHT ,JUST MORAL ACT TO DO..NOT THEE WORDS OF THE MAN WHO TWISTED A GOOD ACT INTO A EVIL ONE,,HIS WORDS ARE LIKE A CANCER,FOR THEY HAVE ONLY BROUGHT SUFFER AND DEATH,,TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN AFFLICED by medical illness,those who treat us
THE GOVERNMENT HAS FOLLOWEDD KLONODYN LEAD,,NOT SURPRISING ,,SINCE WHEN HAVE WE SEEN A JUST,MORAL,HUMANE GOVERNMENT?!
This would not be the 1st time,our government has mistakenly followed a cruel mans idealogy.Remember Eugenics,labotomies,Pennhusrt,Transalleghanies,,That was all paid for by our government,following mad men,thus it is true again,with klonodyn.Maybe our government needs to look at the cost this man has cost u and the taxpayers w/his false addiction lies/data,For me,,I can tell u,my medical bill was 250.00 bucks a year FOR 10 YEARS,My insurance company nothing,,deductable..1 visit a year,to my Pain Doctor,,and 20.00 a month in medicine.Verses,,klonodyns new world,,Forced doctors visits every 30 days.Forced pee test,,Doctors out of fear,,dropping patients,putting them in rehabs,,out of fear from our government,,what is it,45,000 a patient?/Klonodyn world has cost insurers 10000000000.00,,billions,,Verses,,250.00 bucks a month,,on thee insurance companies,and a 20.00 bottle of medicine.Any fool can see,KLONODYN IDEALOGY is not cost effective at all!!!.but fills up his pocket doesn’t it?!!
Do u doctors realize,,they have ;literally made it a felony,for you to practice medicine effectively,It has become a crime ,a felony to treat the medically ill….
U have allowed a man w/no education in the field of painmangemnt,,to convince a entire government that your profession, a Medical Doctor,,That a M.D,,is no longer the ethical ,just,rightful decision makers in the field of medicine,.U have allowed 1 man to tell our government that the field of Medicine is evil,,bad decision makers,,for treating the medically ill in physical pain,to reduce their suffering?Why??Why have u allowed this LIE,BY LIARS on thee medically ill to happen??the CRUELITY,THE SUFFERING,THE FORCED PHYSICAL PAIN,THE DEATHS,,THIS MAN HAS CAUSED,,Why couldn’t u simply stand up to a man,,who is soo wrong, AND SAY KLONODYN U ARE WRONG!!IT IS NOT A FELONY FOR US TO EFFECTIVELY TREAT OUR MEDICALLY ILL!!
I stand by my words,,,KLONODYN,,U ARE LIKE A CANCER,AND LIKE A CANCER,U HAVE ONLY BROUGHT SUFFERING AND DEATH ONTO THE MEDICALLY ILL,AND THOSE ETHICAL ENOUGH TO TREAT US EFFECTIVELY…but i bet your pocket book is full for a life time,,on the backs of our lifes,,,,,,Maryw