Re: DEA, Medical Groups Issue Joint Statement on Pain Drugs

From: dtouch (dtouch@bellsouth.net)
Sun Oct 28 20:28:07 2001


dtouch wrote:

> One reason legitimate people with intense pain cannot get the right
> medicine is because the doctors are afraid to write prescriptions
> because of threats from the DEA but the street bums can get all they
> want. As long as patients do not abuse pain killers they should be made
> comfortable. I know I stay in so much pain that if I could not get some
> relief, I would commit suicide as I could not endure this hell of
> adhesions. The DEA needs to leave legitimate doctors alone and
> concentrate on all the illegal things around. Thanks, Dolores
> dtouch@bellsouth.net
>
> KathFindlay wrote:
>
> > DEA, Medical Groups Issue Joint Statement on Pain Drugs
> >
> > The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) stressed during a
> > briefing on Tuesday that it recognizes the need for a balanced
> > approach to curbing abuse of pain drugs and that it aims to ensure
> > that legitimate patients are not denied access to needed treatments.
> >
> > http://www.medscape.com/44152.rhtml?srcmp=im-102601
>


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