This showed up in my inbox. It is my understanding that TENN had a chronic pain pt’s bill of rights which the legislature recently REPEALED… how often have you ever heard of a LAW BEING REPEALED ? Has anyone checked … have they repealed our Constitution and our Bill of Rights ? Was repealing the chronic pain pts bill of rights… tantamount to endorsing a GENOCIDE of people suffering from subjective diseases ? I can recall the names of several DICTATORS in other countries that have “wiped out” segments of their population that was declared “undesirable”… we are on a very slippery slope and may have already passed the point of no return, and we are suppose to be a civilized society. Is the definition of the term “civilized” taking a dangerous revision ?
Hi I read ur article about pharmacies refusing to fill for patients. .Here in TN we have a very very big epidemic with pain medication and addiction. . I volunteer with drug treatment here in TN and I’m seeing patients daily relapse ,over dose ,even die due to pharmacies turning them away .. ANY type of buprenorphine product suboxone subutex bunavail it does not matter they r turning these patients away .. not one pharmacy EVERY PHARMACY. I saw a veteran last month over dose the day he got into drug treatment because he spent all day driving through 5 counties stopping at every pharmacy he saw and being told no they won’t fill suboxone for him … a schedule 3 drug !! For drug treatment. . He over dosed that night ..because he CLD not get this life saving medication .. they give up at a point of being as low as they can get begging for help ..finally reaching out asking for help and getting into a program all to be turned away and the help become unobtainable. .BECAUSE THE PHARMACIES. .it’s horrible TN needs help ..even on a federal level president Obama just addressed the nation explaining that medication assisted treatment wld be the way the nation handles drug addiction and patients seeking help .. the old ways were failing and M.A.T. programs r seeing higher success rates… yet here in TN we can’t even get patients medication filled. .even those who have used the same pharmacy for 5 YRS r still being told NO. . there has to be a way to stop this and fix this situation ?? Would you know of anything or anyone I can reach out to?
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I wish this was the “bottom,” unfortunately, I fear this country-wide witch hunt is no where near done. It will take a revolution of pained voices before the media and government will even consider our voices as worthy of their attention. A dear friend’s partner just suffered a severe gallbladder infection, in TN, and was REFUSED pain treatment other than NSAIDs, because he takes chronic pain meds.
Intriguing.
In Florida, folks with pain couldn’t get pain meds.
In Tennessee, this guy says folks with addiction, can’t get addiction meds either.
Both Fla and Tenn had sudden spikes in suicide, as soon as patients are denied what they need.
DEA denies causing this. Despite a mass of evidence that they caused the Fla issues that are ongoing.
This person might reach out to The National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or maybe the NIDA.