It was reported today that the State of Maine has implemented “cookie cutter opiate dosing”… I expect that just like the CDC guidelines… prescribers and various healthcare entities will state that they are implementing these new guidelines and they will IGNORE the pts that are exempt from these limits.

You can’t successfully sue the state… the only thing that you can do is challenge the constitutionality of the law.  But by the time that the challenge crawls thru the courts… most/all medical practices will have implemented this law as their practice’s policies and procedures and makes the constitutionality of law a mute issue.

I recently blogged about how class action lawsuits can probably be brought against corporate entities (large medical practices, hospitals, insurance companies) who profess to be implementing these guidelines and laws Regain your quality of life … SUE THEIR ASS !

The politicians and bureaucrats are going to continue to pass these opiate dosing limitations and in all likelihood those corporate entities will implement portion of the guidelines while ignoring the exceptions that are in place to help make sure that legit chronic pain pts get proper therapy.

In that above post is a link to a website that lists 85 class action law firms. A class action law suit only needs one LEAD PLAINTIFF … everyone else just goes along for the ride.

These class action law firms goes after entities that have done harm to large number of people and have “deep pockets”… They work on a per-cent of the WINNINGS… (contingency basis)

But unless someone being HARMED contacts them… they will not even be aware of what is being done to millions of chronic pain pts.

None of the healthcare providers ( Pharmas, Prescribers, Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Hospitals) are going to take a stand… the DEA controls their ability to stay in business because they controls their licenses. The insurance companies are going to save money – generate more profits – by following enforcing these guidelines.

YOU (chronic pain pts) are combatants in the war on drugs – like it or not !!  IMO, until the CDC guidelines and other states have implemented laws… the chronic pain pts… were getting screwed and didn’t have the mental, physical, financial capability to level the playing field.

Now that healthcare corporation are adopting the most stringent portions of these guidelines/laws and ignoring the exceptions where chronic pain pts can be properly treated and forcing/mandating that their employed prescribers follow the corporation’s  cookie cutter policies and procedures on opiate dosing.. could have created a whole new playing field.

Getting a number of class action law suits against these corporations may cause other legislators to take a pause in passing more of these laws and other corporations from going down the same path as other corporations have taken… and so far gotten away with it… The CDC guidelines were implemented March 2016.  The one year anniversary maybe the correct timing to start going after those corporations who have decided to practice medicine without a license and NOW maybe the appropriate time for individual chronic painers to start contacting these class action law firms… the more chronic painers they hear from the more likely it will get their attention and cause to action.

THE BALL IS IN YOUR COURT !

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