What's the New Legislation for Opioids Petition About?

THE PETITION

The Petition that we have circulating is located on Change.org and is aimed toward the development of New Controlled Substance Legislation for Chronic Pain Management. You may read the petition in its entirety below and click on the link to sign it.

But now, for some important details surrounding this petition.

1. The CDC Opioid Guidelines: in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control released their Opioid Prescription Guidelines for Acute Pain. These guidelines were aimed at the General Practitioner and gave them a ball-park maximum dosage of 90mme (morphine milli-equivalent) dosage for acute pain not to exceed for any patient. Within the guidelines, the CDC specifically mentioned and excluded chronic pain patients, sickle cell anemia, other incurable disease states leading to severe pain, and end of life pain.

2. The DEA Enforcement of the CDC Guidelines: in 2018, the DEA began auditing retail pharmacies in earnest after the previous five years of multiple massive investigations into doctors offices, patients, and pharmacies with and without subpoenas for rightful seizure of protective patient information.

3. Suicide rates across the nation began to climb among the disabled and elderly community beginning in 2012-15 and still climbs with Wyoming leading the nation at twice the normal average.

4. After investigating the suicide rate among opioid abusers and suicide rates, it was discovered that less than 2% of all deaths from opioid overdoses and suicides are due to prescription only opioids and pain medications.

5. In 2019, New Hampshire became the first state in the Union to pass legislation to protect the Chronic Pain community and providers with their New Hampshire Controlled Substance Legislation which prevents any entity from telling the provider how to prescribe opioids to chronic pain patients.

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The Petition on Change.org: https://www.change.org/NewOpioidLeg2020

NEW LEGISLATION IS NEEDED ASAP TO PRESERVE RIGHTS AND SAVE AMERICAN LIVES

SAVE THE LIVES OF THE DISABLED AND ELDERLY WITH CHRONIC PAIN WITH NEW OPIOID LEGISLATION AND RESTORE THEIR RIGHTS TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

The war on drugs claims lives—many being innocent Americans who suffer needlessly and finally die, often at their own hand, due to a faceless and cold-hearted bureaucracy determined to use shock and awe tactics without compassion or respect for those caught in the crossfire.

Who may this be? People such as Renee Blare, a CRPS Warrior and Chronic Pain Patient. A disabled American in Wyoming who lives with chronic pain each day from sunrise to sunset, Renee requires opioids to live any resemblance of a functional life.

She isn’t an addict, seeker, or drug dealer — or a criminal. Renee's one of many in this Land, who is simply surviving, pursuing the American dream in a broken body.

Let's examine what the U.S. Government's War on Opioid Addiction has done where Renee lives, the State of Wyoming -- the least populated state in the Union -- with only 578,500 people (2019 census).

Wyoming lost most of its pain specialists with fifteen (15) and five (5) major pain clinics remaining in the state. National averages of 20% of chronic pain sufferers with 8% consisting of severe cases place the rural population of Wyoming's five major clinics serving 116,000 people and 45,600 severe cases. In medical terms, these numbers strain the system and result in what would be considered less than adequate if not poor care for a primarily disabled and elderly population. Add to the overall care that pressure is being exerted from outside sources to restrict if not eliminate opioids as a therapeutic option, and it becomes detrimental to the Wyoming chronic pain patient and his/her overall quality of life outcome.

This is one state out of fifty in the Union and only one example of the the insanity facing America's Chronic Pain Management in today's climate of animosity toward opioids. The disabled and elderly community needs your help now to keep their pain management -- the patients and providers -- safe. How? Providing the protection and assistance they require to practice safe and healthy lives at home through common sense legislation.

It’s time to pass legislation that protects the treatment, purchase, and usage of opioids for disabled and elderly chronic pain patients and eliminate the big brother oversight of policies and agencies assuming authority and guidance from other agency's guidelines that are not written, not required, or designed for chronic pain.

We need to give back the lawful freedoms to those American citizens who are being denied the right to a life worth living, the liberty to live it in as little pain as medically possible, and to pursue happiness in this country as given under the Constitution of the United States of America.

The days of allowing the suffering from debilitating chronic pain is over in this country. Weak, agonized, and hopeless choices such as suicide should no longer be more acceptable than OPIOIDS. It's time for action. Quality legislation which protects opioid therapy and allows human beings to live quality, albeit disabled lives is needed now.

IT IS TIME TO PASS CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE LEGISLATION AND SAVE OUR CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS IN AMERICA!

54 have signed. Let’s get to 100!

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This is probably the most important petition you'll sign in terms of lives save today. Help us save many disable and elderly lives...not merely physical lives but their emotional, and mental lives as well. Stop the insanity today.

Sign the petition!

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