Comments on: Prescription Drug Propaganda http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/prescription-drug-propaganda/ Addiction, Pain, and Public Health website (doctordeluca.com) Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:13:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Bill http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/prescription-drug-propaganda/comment-page-1/#comment-11240 Bill Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:12:50 +0000 http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/prescription-drug-propaganda/191/#comment-11240 <p>Amen to this article! What the public, and many in Congress, may not realize is that federal law enforcement actually views pain patients as drug heads seeking a fix, PERIOD. They see the specialty of Pain Management as a group of doctors, motivated only by greed, "addicting" these "drug seekers" (the Federal Government doesn't consider them patients in any shape, form or fashion) for the sole purpose of more office-visit and/or procedure fees. They would never admit that in a congressional hearing, or in public, but I have heard these sentiments from them first hand.</p> <p>Anyone who has been present at a pain doc's prosecution has heard it first hand as well. The problem there is the government wants us to believe they are only referring to those on trial. Believe me, they're not. They are speaking of ANY chronic, non-cancer pain patient who takes opioids frequently and any doctor who dares to adequately treat them.</p> <p>The tragedy, in my opinion, is that pain meds have been so successfully demonized that people who hear or read drug-war propaganda just accept it. Hopefully the newer studies (that are credible) will be able to continue to show that opioids are not as risky as once thought. It's all about job security for drug warriors!!! Let us not forget the blog entry on a DEA Agent's personal web page that dreamed of the repeal of Roe v. Wade and hoped for a ban on prescribed contraceptives. The language of that entry solidified my belief in the war on doctors.</p> <p>Thanks Alex for all your dedication to this cause!</p> Amen to this article! What the public, and many in Congress, may not realize is that federal law enforcement actually views pain patients as drug heads seeking a fix, PERIOD. They see the specialty of Pain Management as a group of doctors, motivated only by greed, “addicting” these “drug seekers” (the Federal Government doesn’t consider them patients in any shape, form or fashion) for the sole purpose of more office-visit and/or procedure fees. They would never admit that in a congressional hearing, or in public, but I have heard these sentiments from them first hand.

Anyone who has been present at a pain doc’s prosecution has heard it first hand as well. The problem there is the government wants us to believe they are only referring to those on trial. Believe me, they’re not. They are speaking of ANY chronic, non-cancer pain patient who takes opioids frequently and any doctor who dares to adequately treat them.

The tragedy, in my opinion, is that pain meds have been so successfully demonized that people who hear or read drug-war propaganda just accept it. Hopefully the newer studies (that are credible) will be able to continue to show that opioids are not as risky as once thought. It’s all about job security for drug warriors!!! Let us not forget the blog entry on a DEA Agent’s personal web page that dreamed of the repeal of Roe v. Wade and hoped for a ban on prescribed contraceptives. The language of that entry solidified my belief in the war on doctors.

Thanks Alex for all your dedication to this cause!

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