Please, if choose to do so, I ask that you write, call, or e-mail your Congressmen to address the ramifications of the governments crackdown on opioid abuse. Yesterday, I had a prescription written by my doctor for a months supply for pain meds which my insurance refused to completely fill. They offered to give me a 7 day supply in lieu of the 30 day supply and then my doctor would have to battle with the insurance company. However, I was more than welcome to pay for the prescription out of pocket!!! So ... even though I have insurance they will only cover either a very limited supply or none at all even though I have a doctor's prescription!
What is happening is people who are suffering from chronic pain are unable to get their meds and are committing suicide because they cannot tolerate the relentless chronic debilitating and brutal pain!
Frustrated opioid patients speak out: 'I now buy heroin on the street'...........One woman spoke of how her mother, at 72 years old, and in pain because of degenerative bone disease, saw only one way out after her opioids were tapered down. She committed suicide.
A husband whose wife of 50 years suffers from neurological and spinal diseases and who no longer can get a prescription for painkiller patches said, “A welcome death has become a discussion.â€
Paul Wayman, a 69-year-old veteran, wrote: “The VA cut my pain meds cold turkey after over 25 years. I now buy heroin on the street.â€
“You need to talk with veterans. My friend has more metal and screws in him than a robot, but no more pain meds. Suicide is the only light at the end of the battlefield," Wayman said. "I used to do a lot of volunteer work, loved doing it with my wife. Now I get high so I can walk.â€............
https://www.foxnews.com/health/readers-respond-to-special-report-about-the-opioid-crisis-unintended-victims-pain-sufferers-losing-access-to-painkillers