Management of Quotas for Controlled Substances and List I Chemicals
2019-11-05 2019-10-24 2019-10-24 2019-11-06 2019-12-23 2019-12-26 2019-11-04 2019-11-04 2019-11-04 2019-11-05
DEA-2019-0013-0115 DEA-2019-0013-0011 DEA-2019-0013-0010 DEA-2019-0013-0124 DEA-2019-0013-0237 DEA-2019-0013-0259 DEA-2019-0013-0086 DEA-2019-0013-0095 DEA-2019-0013-0094 DEA-2019-0013-0107
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https://api.regulations.gov/v4/comments/DEA-2019-0013-0115 https://api.regulations.gov/v4/comments/DEA-2019-0013-0011 https://api.regulations.gov/v4/comments/DEA-2019-0013-0010 https://api.regulations.gov/v4/comments/DEA-2019-0013-0124 https://api.regulations.gov/v4/comments/DEA-2019-0013-0237 https://api.regulations.gov/v4/comments/DEA-2019-0013-0259 https://api.regulations.gov/v4/comments/DEA-2019-0013-0086 https://api.regulations.gov/v4/comments/DEA-2019-0013-0095 https://api.regulations.gov/v4/comments/DEA-2019-0013-0094 https://api.regulations.gov/v4/comments/DEA-2019-0013-0107
Rue Anonymous Concerned Lori Christian Michelle Michelle Michelle Valerie Kim
Anonymous Anonymous Citizen Perez Woodward Anonymous Bannasch Anonymous Windsor Buchholtz
The restrictions of opioids after the CDC guidelines have caused undue hardships on all people who experience pain, acute and chronic. Suicides are up in people with chronic pain as are the number of people who have turned to street drugs. I have seen comments from chronic pain patients that say in order to get relief maybe the best way is to claim addiction in order to get methadone. Methadone is not a drug to utilize  with its side affects on heart rhythm.  It can cause sudden death.      I probably wont survive if my dose is reduced anymore because of the severity of my injuries due to a car accident 37 years ago.  I am wheelchair bound now. I have seen ads for new rehab facilities opening everywhere near me at the same time pain clinics are closing. Soon there wont be places for people suffering to go. Please dont cut production on opioids.  All this is doing is controlling what doctors can and will give their patients. More Cruel and unnecessary suffering by CPP. More government over reach I dont need the DEA in my doctors office. We are not drug addicts and treating as such as caused cruel and unnecessary suffering and pain. Stop the genocide on CPP.   There must be a system in place to manage the effects of inaccurate quotas. No one with pain significant to warrant use of opioids should be left without access to these life saving pain medications. The effects of this include needless suffering, heart attacks,  strokes,  withdrawal, suicide,  medical collapse and death. It is a significant hardship and sometimes impossible for intractable pain patients to pharmacy shop, looking for a pharmacythat has the needed medicine. This practice also flags the patient detrimentally. This is a no win situation for the sickest and most vulnerable subset of the population. Intractable pain patients do not divert their pain medicine as they need them for their own use. This should be taken into consideration. The unsafe,  inhumane practice of using other classes of medicines to manage postoperative pain in the absence of opiates, leads to unnecessary suffering and untenable side effects such as liver and kidney failure. There must be a back up system in place. Thank you.  Please take into consideration the people who have legitimate reasons to take opioids and do not abuse them! I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome which is a very painful hereditary connective tissue disorder. In my group alone, I have heard horror stories about people whos Drs have lowered or discontinued their pain control. Many of these people have committed suicide because they cant take the pain. Please listen to some of them and hear their stories before you make a decision. I am fortunate in a way because of my bodys response to most meds, my Dr implanted a pain pump (intrathecaly) which has its own issues itself and not for everyone. Tank you so much! My life has been taken away by pain that was only controllable with opoids.  I have since been taken off due to doctor fear and now Im bedridden.   Further reduction to opioid medication will only result in more suffering and suicide due to excruciating pain not being controlled. WHY must chronic pain patients continue to pay with their lives for street drug addicts behavior? This is inhumane and soul crushingly cruel. As DEA agents, you MUST know where the problem is and where its not. Go after the street drugs and cartels, God speed. There needs to be separation of street drugs and prescription pain medication when it comes to research. There needs to be separation between addicts and chronic pain patients before anyone is truly helped and the suffering and suicide is addressed. Please consider this before YOUR actions become genocide.  The war on street drugs will never be won, but that is where your war is. Please continue to fight the good fight without dragging suffering chronic pain patients into all of this. We are not the problem. Addicts and chronic pain patients MUST be separated before anyone is truly helped. This would be a great start if you really want to begin to walk back the insane mistake made by the CDC guidelines that started this whole mess. Weather they want to take responsibility or not, the blood of all CPP suicides is on them. Knowing this, why in the world wouldnt they admit their mistake and immediately retract and carefully (with the help of pain management physicians) In plain english make it right? This should have been done a long time ago before innocent families had to watch their loved ones suffer such inhumane torture. Some to the point of suicide. Never in my lifetime would I have ever believed that this great country would force such suffering on their own citizens. It physically sickens me. Please tell me that (WE) are better than this. Please tell me that all of this suffering and death wasnt the agenda. There are innocent physicians in prison. This left whole practices full of abandoned CPPs. I can tell you from experience, its near impossible to find another physician to accept a new CPP who is on opioids. Your organization has terrorized them to the point that they are abandoning pain patients altogether. There are still wonderful caring physicians who would like to properly treat their patients and end their suffering but their hands are tied by YOU! This insanity must end. It only makes sense that the addiction specialists head the addiction plan and the pain management physicians and experts head the chronic pain plan. Please do whatever it takes to get it done right away. There are so many suffering and so close to giving up. I beg you to get it done so theres not one more loved soul that couldnt wait any longer. Dear Sirs,I am a chronic pain pt. have been on opioids for 20 years. I have tried to see about rehab but was told by a top inpatient rehab facility I had a preconceived notion about opioids and pain. Nothing they could give me would work because I needed stronger meds to control my pain. No I was not addicted only dependent.  I need the meds to survive and live, even walk and perform personal care. There is no one I know who have ever abused their meds or anyone elses.  Please dont decrease the number of opioids being produced.  The reasons there were a few problems were drug companies pushing the use and saying they were less addictive and certain doctors overprescribing. If I am unable to obtain oxycodone or fentanyl patches I cant live.  Chronic Pain Patients are the Lepors of 2019. We are denied Human Rights, Civil Rights and HIPPA protection. I am a Chronic Pain Patient, and I have trouble every month getting my pain prescription filled. More often than not the pharmacy cant fill my prescription because they cant get any Percocet in.  And yes I have done every pain treatment out there prior to using opioids for my severe, relentless, unbearable constant pain. This includes; otc medications, heat/cold therapy, physical therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture, tens-unit, multiple cortisone injections, multiple nerve blocks both freezing/burning, biofeedback, spinal cord stimulator, as well as multiple spinal surgeries prior to being put on opioids for chronic pain treatment. In attempts to treat my chronic pain without using opioids. I had no choice but to try all I have listed or I would not be prescribed opioids, which were the only effective pain treatment. While all nonopioid treatments were ineffective the surgeries did bring feeling some back where I had been numb however: some treatments did indeed hurt me with a spinal cord injury, so never will I be out of pain. Along with that Im having more surgeries so I can have pain pump implant. The implant will not eliminate my pain however; Im hoping to at least be able to get my pain reduced to the level it was before my pain meds were cut in half. Along with my diagnosis of chronic pain, which is easily seen on my NCS/EMG, MRIs, X-rays, I now have pain induced high blood pressure, which has me becoming a stroke risk due to under-treated pain. My blood pressure was 200/116 at my Dr. appointment I immediately took my pain meds, but earlier than I was supposed to, 20 minutes after my reading was 130/70. I dont have high blood pressure I do have pain.This attack on opioids are causing many pain patients other life long health problems. I know this can become a permanent problem and the constant high blood pressure can lead to heart disease for me and all because of the opioid hysteria and Thats what it is. When are chronic pain patients going to be considered? None of us want to live in pain, many have already committed suicide, many have died from untreated and under-treated pain, many are forced to navigate the streets to obtain pain relief, where are our rights? Who will defend us? Val Windsor  PLEASE HELP US CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS WHO ARE SUFFERING IN UNBEARABLE PAIN BECAUSE WERE DENIED THE LIFE SAVING PAIN MEDICATIONS THAT MAKE LIFE BEARABLE MORE SUICIDES DEATHS BECAUSE WE CANT HANDLE THE PAIN  Buy letting there be a SHORTAGE of PAIN MEDICATION available FOR PAIN PATIENTS AND surgeries and bad ACCIDENTS,bad MEDICAL conditions AND pain that does not stop like it should and BECOMES CHRONIC. Pain MEDICATIONS ARE a small part in this war on ABUSE its the ILLEGAL DRUGS that ARE KILLING PEOPLE AND ADDICTS. We are the American people WHO you are hurting and betraying and KILLING us .taking our PAIN MEDICATIONS away is so wrong. CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS ARE SUFFERING from HEART attacks the pain is so intense. Why are you doing this to us ?? You think you or your FAMILY are safe from CHRONIC PAIN...YOUR DEAD WRONG..I WOULD OF NEVER BELIEVED THAT YOU COULD BE IN THIS MUCH HORRIFIC PAIN AND SUFFERING YEAR AFTER YEAR AND IT NEVER STOPS UNTIL IT HAPPENED TO ME WHEN YOU HAVE A BAD ACCIDENT OR MEDICAL CONDITION OR BAD SURGERY AND YOU END UP WITH CHRONIC PAIN YOU WILL SUFFER TO UNTIL YOUR DEATH 