CDC’s Updated Opioid Guidelines Are Necessary, but Not Sufficient

You had better believe the Guidelines need work. CORRECTION: They need to be totally erased and gotten rid of. I arrived in California from my home in Virginia for an appt with my Pain Management Physician. Upon arrival, my wife turned on her phone and we were greeted by a text message from a friend, telling us that the previous day, my doctor had been “visited by the DEA-holes” and was handed an immediate order to stop all schedule 2 Rxs of any opioid pain meds. This unjustified action has already caused a double-suicide. This doctor is a very compassionate and caring doctor that hates to see people suffer. In his 52 years of practice, he has never had a single complaint or black mark on his record with the California Board of Medicine. Now my supply of legitimately prescribed pain meds are running low and soon I will not only be in agony from my pain caused by two incurable and painful diseases AND I will be facing painful and dangerous withdrawals from my medications. The DEA has forced my doctor to abandon his intractable pain patients, something the CDC has said repeatedly not to do. This abandonment will cause more deaths as immediate stoppage of pain medicine can cause blood pressure to spike and cause death by heart failure or stroke. This is our government executing people and the blood will be on the hands of the DEA for their murder of innocent, intractable pain patients. We called around to virtually all Los Angeles area Pain Management Doctors and NONE, I repeat NONE have returned any calls. Doctors are justifiably afraid to take on abandoned intractable pain patients because they know they will also be “visited” by the DEA. The DEA should be working to take down dealers of deadly street fentanyl but instead they are taking out doctors who are veritable “sitting ducks.” Am I angry? Yes, I am! These actions HAVE to stop b4 causing more needless deaths of some of the sickest people in our country.

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