This goes along with the $3.8 BILLION STREET JUNKIE BILL the Senate passed yesterday with only Sen. Mike Lee voting NO. The House passed HR 6 last year with NO PUBLIC NOTICE. It has had a DEVASTATING EFFECT IN PAIN MANAGEMENT FOR ALL ILLNESSES AND ALL CONDITIONS INCLUDING CANCER. Cancer Patients are having to go to 10-20 Pharmacies to fill an Oncologist Pain Script. ER have been impacted, surgeries, this bill will make it worse.
It will have to be Reconciled with HR6 CALL YOUR US REPS, we will have no pain meds for our War Wounded, Cancer, or Sick. Would you like to go through 4th degree burns with NO PAIN meds? That is happening. We honest patients are being treated like criminals because we have Intractable Pain diseases. And it includes Benzos for Panic/Anxiety and Seizures.
This is on top of the $91 Million President Trump provided and the Millions hid in this years Farm Bill.
The Federal Agency that Fuels the Opioid Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/opinion/drugs-dea-defund-heroin.html
Imagine going through a burn like this, the debridement of the tissue with NO PAIN MEDS?
What is the bill passed yesterday you are referring to?
When they started to force taper Veterans at VA hospitals, many started to commit suicide, as did civilians when they were hit 3 months later. This is just 1 story. All because a doctor refused to treat Intractable Pain.
Suicide Over Pain- Telling My Brothers Story Because he cant