The governments (FDA) failure to control drug cartels and drug pushers have taken the route to control all physicians ability to prescribe pain meds of their responsible patients. Since the FDA can’t control the illegal influx of illegal pain drugs, they punish everyone else!!! A practice I have seen them do in other illegal activities. Can’t stop the “stupid” so, it seems to be easier for the FDA to punish everyone rather than stopping and arresting those who have abused the system. My physician has been treating me for 16 years. Of those 16 years, I have been in chronic body pain for 7years and, he prescribed tramadol to help with the pain. After years of taking the meds exactly as described, my pain has caused me to use 2 more pills a day (every 8 hours) and so, I requested an increase of tramadol. He could not prescribe any additional meds because the damn government has tied his hands. What do others, who have chronic pain do? There are many in the same situation. The “government has removed my quality of life” and, after many years, I had to quit my job. I liked working and had plans to continue as long as I was able. My doctor gave me a copy of a letter he received from the state he practices in. It is a threatening letter , which states, they will remove is license to write prescriptions if they deem he has written prescriptions for more pain drugs than the government allows. There are a lot of people suffering from chronic pain for which there is no cure or, known diagnosis of what is causing the pain in order to help those suffering from chronic pain. Many people are only able to continue with their daily lives or jobs because of the pain medication. Anyone have any answers as to how we patients can be treated by our physicians without the “long arm of the government” sticking their noses where they don’t belong?
How can we get the FDA to stop controlling our pain med prescriptions from our physicians?
Question posted by Mama6kill on 15 June 2021
Last updated on 16 June 2021 by Lisa01
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You are asking a question that this forum has been discussing for years. Although it is the DEA that's tying the dr's hands rather than the FDA. One might have thought the marked increase in heroin overdoses, or fentanyl overdoses, since their "crackdown" in prescribing pain meds would have them see the error of their plan. Unfortunately not. Their inability to control the illegal drug trade had made them attack the legal pain medications. I'm not saying that there weren't abuses in the legal prescribing of pain meds. Of course there were. There are abuses in most every system. But it was much more newsworthy to declare an "opiate crisis" and take medical decisions out of the hands of dr's and their patients and put them in the hands of a government agency that was failing in their primary purpose. Now those of us who suffer with daily chronic pain are forced to live with a greatly reduced quality of life, may be forced to give up work and asked to swallow the idea that's its all for our own good. Even with all this I can't bring myself to wish the kind of pain we suffer on those who don't. But I guess I have more compassion and humanity than those who know what's "best" for me. So, unfortunately, I have no answers to your questions. Just a whole lot of sympathy and understanding for your (and so many others) predicament.
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