Request that the FDA the following actions:  Revoke approval of OxyContin's indication for the management of pain, approval of all extended-release opioids indicated for the management of pain and approval of all immediate-release opioid drug product labeling supporting use for the treatment of chronic pain
Citizen Petition CDER Pharmaceutical  Manufacturing Research Services PMRS Revoke approval of OxyContin approval of all extended-release opioids approval of all immediate-release opioid management of pain chronic pain 2017-1067
2017-08-07
FDA-2017-P-1359-0025
04:00:00
https://api.regulations.gov/v4/comments/FDA-2017-P-1359-0025
Anonymous
Anonymous
I look at the reports on how the opioid epidemic, has got to be stopped and addressed.  I am, along with millions of other Americans, are on the other end of opioids. I am on the end of the chronic pain disease epidemic.   As the CDC, DEA and Medicaid and medicare,  and numerous other government associates, are blaming Doctors for the over prescribing of medication,  NOBODY, is looking at or reading the statistics from chronic pain disease patients.   How about not addressing these drugs as dangerous and addictive.  Lets look at them as lifesaving and medically necessary for the million of Americans in chronic pain.  Chronic pain is a disease.   It is now becoming an epidemic. No other disease medication is scrutinized.  Chronic pain is a disease.   We as patients are being denied,  dismissed and overlooked by our drs due to all the scrutiny associated with treating chronic pain disease.   Our doctors are afraid to treat us adequately.   We have a disease that medication is readily accessible to us and we are being denied.   We pain patients are truly being discriminated against, due to people who use heroin,  illegal fentanyl,  and placed a blame on anyone but themselves.   This is a witch hunt for drs who prescribe life saving medication and pain disease patients who benefit from this medication.  We have a chronic disease.  We want to be able to take care of our homes, our children,  our selves, as much as possible,  but without access to our, potentially, life saving medications,  we are unable to do so.  We want to live not just exist in pain 24/7.  We need the government agencies to look at the real statistics, not the hand picked.We need help.  With all the headlines, topics and stories on how opioids are bad, lets look at what good they do for our disease of chronic pain and the million of Americans they help.