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First Do No Harm: Stop The Pressure on Doctors to Reduce the Number of Patients on Narcotic Pain Meds

The purpose of this petition is to STOP the pressure the President, Congress, the DEA and media are putting on doctors to reduce the number of patients on narcotic pain medications and the amount of pain medications prescribed and establish or change the methods doctors use to conclude a person is "drug-seeking". It is actually only a minute percent of doctors out there who are prescribing recklessly. The problem is not the doctors. You have forced them through fear of losing their license to not only underprescribe but to completely refuse to treat authentically chronically ill patients, thus, inflicting undue pain and suffering (torture) to the point of losing any and all quality of life to seriously contemplating suicide as an only option. There are animal welfare laws in place to protect animals from undue suffering. But there are hundreds of thousands of human beings who are suffering horribly and unnecessarily. This petition is to require the President, congress, media, et.al., to focus efforts to stop narcotic pain medicine from getting into the wrong hands by the following methods: 1) defining the difference between "addiction" and "dependency" and teaching doctors and media to use the correct term for the situation; 2) addressing the financial needs of the chronically ill so they can take their medication and still pay their bills which keeps otherwise law abiding citizens and elderly from selling their medication 3) requiring DARE programs to educate kids on the permanent damage pain meds do to their pain receptors in their brain causing brain damage; 4) shutting down websites that advertise out of country pharmacies; 5) reaffirm to doctors and patients the scientific research shows time and time again that the use of medical marijuana in combination with narcotic pains meds ENHANCES the performance of the pain medication, making it possible to get adequate pain relief on lower doses; 6) changing laws to place responsibility for obtaining pain medications from doctors by lying, cheating, coercing, on the patient and not the doctor; 7) requiring public and private universities to create more in depth courses on pain management, which meds work well together for chronic pain, how to dose properly and how to effectively taper someone down to a lower dose or completely off each particular medication so as not to set an already sick person up for failure before they ever start. Doctors should be required to take a person's word for their pain level (otherwise why bother asking?) and treat them humanely until that person has proven themselves to be a liar or faking.