Back in the ’50’s there was a TV showed called THE LONE RANGER The Lone Ranger had a Indian (Native American) side kick name TONTO… Tonto was a man of few words and seemed to have an intuitive nature of other humans.. As I remember, one of his regularly used quotes was “paleface speaks with forked tongue”
Today that quote would seems to apply with a small various “Bureaucrat speaks with forked tongue” and my personal opinion, this phrase is very appropriate to those who work for the DEA.
Most have read the public statements by the DEA that they are not doctors and are not here to interfere with a patient’s right to get their necessary medications.
We also know by the actions of those that the DEA licenses ( wholesalers, prescribers, pharmacies) that there is a different story being told to these licensees..
I have been a “student” of how the Federal Bureaucracy works for several decades and there is little that happens that comes out of Washington that doesn’t have a much larger impact on our society than the initial law/regulation would suggest. There is always a long term hidden agenda.
As an example, CMS has published that pts taking more than 120 mg (Morphine Equivalents) a day.. are “risky patients”. Some medical licensing boards, AG’s, legislators have went down a similar path. https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=6672
I am told by many pts that their prescribers are telling them that they have to reduce their opiates – per the DEA…
I am seeing more and more chronic pain pts making similar comments on various internet venues “I am not sure how much longer I can continue to deal with my pain “.. I take that to mean that they are talking about committing SUICIDE ..
Just this past week… a senior couple committed MURDER/SUICIDE in Fort Myers FL… because of untreated chronic pain …https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=6724 It made the local news…but did you see it on the national news ??? Since a GUN was used… the DEA won’t be able to use this as a “accidental drug overdose ”
Or how about the veteran recently committed suicide – by gun – over lack of pain management from the VA https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=6727 Did you hear about that one on the national news ?
The same number of people have committed suicide in a similar time frame as ISIS has murdered innocent civilians… ISIS murdered those three people and published it on the internet.. The DEA CONTRIBUTED to the suicides of those three other people… but their methodology is such that they don’t get any BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS .. Which one of those deaths did you see on the national news ?
The options these pts have are few… become house, chair, bed confined because of their unresolved pain.. basically become completely INVISIBLE to our society.
They could turn to Heroin or MJ … I understand that it is relative cheap… of course both are illegal and if they die of a Heroin overdose… or caught possessing MJ… it will give the DEA more fodder to justify continuing the war on drugs.
The pts start prescriber/pharmacy shopping… not to get enough opiates to get high… but to attempt to attain some quality of life.. If they are caught by the state’s PMP.. then the DEA will have more fodder to come down on some more prescribers for over prescribing… again justification to continue the war on drugs.
They commit suicide, if they do it with their meds… another “accidental overdose” .. and more fodder for the DEA to continue the war on drugs.
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We’re Born alone, we Live alone, we Die alone ,only through our pain and suffering can we create the illusion for a moment ,we don’t suffer alone.
This is just sooo WRONG!!!!