The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed an additional 20% reduction in the manufacturing of many opioid painkillers, including: oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, and morphine. The proposed cuts in the opioid supply, which would be effective in 2018, are in addition to those imposed by the DEA in 2017 (a more than 25% reduction).
The Board of Directors of the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association (RSDSA) has passed a resolution opposing this additional proposed reduction. The "opioid epidemic" will not be solved by a reduction in opioid supply, but will adversely hurt the accessibility to appropriate opiate therapy for people suffering with chronic pain.
We are asking members of the RSDSA community to join RSDSA in opposing this reduction.
Please sign our petition. It will be delivered to the DEA via the Federal Register on September 5.
After signing, we would like to encourage you to share with people you know that would also sign.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
September 21, 2017
September 11, 2017
I HAVE BEEN SPENDING MY ENTIRE WEEK PREPARING OUR FORMAL SUBMISSION FOR THE FEDERAL REGISTER TO ENSURE THE DEA HEARS US LOUD AND CLEAR!! THE STORIES YOU ARE ALL SHARING ABOUT LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN ARE FUELING THIS FIGHT AND PROVING EXACTLY WHY THESE CUTS ARE DANGEROUS!!
August 26, 2017
WE JUST BLASTED PAST 100 SIGNATURES AND THE ENERGY IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!! I AM TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY BY THE RESPONSE TO THIS FIGHT AGAINST THESE DEA CUTS!! LETS KEEP THIS MOMENTUM CHARGING FORWARD!!
Reached 100 supporters
August 24, 2017
August 23, 2017
WE ARE ALMOST AT ONE HUNDRED SIGNATURES AND THIS IS THE MOMENT TO BLAST THIS OUT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!! PUSH HARD RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE NEED TO SHOW THE DEA THAT WE ARE A MASSIVE FORCE FOR CHANGE!!
223 Comments
There is no cure for RSD/CRPS my late Dr. Gutman described this disease as "The Hitler of All Diseases" if he can describe it like that it's because he knows and sees the burning alive is what it is! Don't take the medications away for those of us who really do need it.
As an RSD/CRPS patient who needs opiates to maintain a functional life, please hear our valid and important pleas to maintain access for chronic pain patients. I was suicidal before prescribed opiates and I know I am not alone. Thank you!
I have RSD and without narcotics I'm either forced to live in agony, buy off the street or die. All you are doing is making street dealers the new 'drs' or adding to the suicide rate. People like me will not live in agony. It's not a life worth living.
Please don't punish us because of those who seek and use drugs illegally. After 16 years of opioid use, I have never misused my presription, lost one, asked for an early refill and have kept the same doctor and pharmacy. We are not the same as addicts!
I have CRPS! This disease in incurable and the pain is excruciating and nonstop! It takes our opioids to try to have a bit of a lower pain day to just shower and make food. Please do not take away the only thing that helps us to live day to day.
People including myself can't live like this, were taking our lives, because you have NO idea how hard it is to try to live the pain that never ends.
I have pain in all my joints. I was on hydrocodone 325-5 mgs every 6hrs as needed. It helped me to be able to get up and do some work around the house and help take care of my husband. I took one before bed so I could rest without being in so much pain. Today after many years of taking this medicine my Doctor decided to take me off completely. I am almost 70 years old and worked since I was 15 years old and this is what is done to us. I believe no matter what age you are and suffering from pain and is used as prescribed
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed an additional 20% reduction in the manufacturing of many opioid painkillers, including: oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, and morphine. The proposed cuts in the opioid supply, which would be effective in 2018, are in addition to those imposed by the DEA in 2017 (a more than 25% reduction).
The Board of Directors of the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association (RSDSA) has passed a resolution opposing this additional proposed reduction. The "opioid epidemic" will not be solved by a reduction in opioid supply, but will adversely hurt the accessibility to appropriate opiate therapy for people suffering with chronic pain.
We are asking members of the RSDSA community to join RSDSA in opposing this reduction.
Please sign our petition. It will be delivered to the DEA via the Federal Register on September 5.
After signing, we would like to encourage you to share with people you know that would also sign.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
September 21, 2017
September 11, 2017
I HAVE BEEN SPENDING MY ENTIRE WEEK PREPARING OUR FORMAL SUBMISSION FOR THE FEDERAL REGISTER TO ENSURE THE DEA HEARS US LOUD AND CLEAR!! THE STORIES YOU ARE ALL SHARING ABOUT LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN ARE FUELING THIS FIGHT AND PROVING EXACTLY WHY THESE CUTS ARE DANGEROUS!!
August 26, 2017
WE JUST BLASTED PAST 100 SIGNATURES AND THE ENERGY IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!! I AM TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY BY THE RESPONSE TO THIS FIGHT AGAINST THESE DEA CUTS!! LETS KEEP THIS MOMENTUM CHARGING FORWARD!!
Reached 100 supporters
August 24, 2017
August 23, 2017
WE ARE ALMOST AT ONE HUNDRED SIGNATURES AND THIS IS THE MOMENT TO BLAST THIS OUT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!! PUSH HARD RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE NEED TO SHOW THE DEA THAT WE ARE A MASSIVE FORCE FOR CHANGE!!
223 Comments
Dont punish the chroniclly Ill patients who abide by Dr's orders and need medication to get relief from 24 hour pain because others abuse the system. If a criminal uses a gun to rob people are you taking away all the guns from those who lawfully use them?
There is no cure for RSD/CRPS my late Dr. Gutman described this disease as "The Hitler of All Diseases" if he can describe it like that it's because he knows and sees the burning alive is what it is! Don't take the medications away for those of us who really do need it.
As an RSD/CRPS patient who needs opiates to maintain a functional life, please hear our valid and important pleas to maintain access for chronic pain patients. I was suicidal before prescribed opiates and I know I am not alone. Thank you!
I have RSD and without narcotics I'm either forced to live in agony, buy off the street or die. All you are doing is making street dealers the new 'drs' or adding to the suicide rate. People like me will not live in agony. It's not a life worth living.
Please don't punish us because of those who seek and use drugs illegally. After 16 years of opioid use, I have never misused my presription, lost one, asked for an early refill and have kept the same doctor and pharmacy. We are not the same as addicts!
I have CRPS! This disease in incurable and the pain is excruciating and nonstop! It takes our opioids to try to have a bit of a lower pain day to just shower and make food. Please do not take away the only thing that helps us to live day to day.
People including myself can't live like this, were taking our lives, because you have NO idea how hard it is to try to live the pain that never ends.
I have pain in all my joints. I was on hydrocodone 325-5 mgs every 6hrs as needed. It helped me to be able to get up and do some work around the house and help take care of my husband. I took one before bed so I could rest without being in so much pain. Today after many years of taking this medicine my Doctor decided to take me off completely. I am almost 70 years old and worked since I was 15 years old and this is what is done to us. I believe no matter what age you are and suffering from pain and is used as prescribed
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Dont punish the chroniclly Ill patients who abide by Dr's orders and need medication to get relief from 24 hour pain because others abuse the system. If a criminal uses a gun to rob people are you taking away all the guns from those who lawfully use them?