We don't have that problem in Iowa. With 2 methadone programs in Des Moines, a town of only 225,000 people, anyone who has even a mild addiction to pain pills can get on Methadone a much more addictive narcotic. I also know of to opiate addicts who take 110mgs of Methadone every day plus they get 225 Dilaudid a month, legally! While, in Iowa, Marijuana/ Medical Marijuana is considered as addictive as heroin yet it is outlawed, but you can become a legal opiate junkie. Where is the sense in this?!?! This is just another example of the "War On Drugs" working in reverse.

can,t we all sign our names to show we support the doctors people who need it are suffering because drs are afraid to give it because thr dea go to the drs offices and threaten the that if they prescribe it the they will go after the dr and my dr is a surgon and told me him self that he can give a little but i would have to suffer after so many pain meds are given or the dea will come and shut him down and he is a surgon that did a operation and feels bad because he know that the pain meds are needed hes the one who went to school for 7 yrs and done over 6000 surgurys we need to help doctors to protect our rights and his no person should be treat with creul and unusual punish ment lad

I had a horrble car accident in 2003 and it left me immobile due to extreme pain. I refused any narcotics in the begining, because I didn't want to be imapired. A week later, I had reached a point with the pain that I really didn't want to live anymore. I went from being "super-mom" to not being able to get to the bathroom on time. I began on a low dose and tried everything from massage thereapy to physical therapy and nerve blocks. Until a week ago, I was finally at a point where I could do some normal daily things and had received my degree in Criminal Justice on my medications. Because of the Washington State Laws on Opiates, my doctor of 8 years, was raided and is being accused of being "Dr. Feel-Good". I had to do blood work and UA's to get non-refillable medications and see my doctor monthly. I didn't start out on the levels I am now, it has been a slow up-hill climb. I know people were trying to use my doctor for meds and he was figuring out those people and refusing to help them unless they went into a treatment program. The problem is, until further notice, my doctor is closed and NO_ONE will take his patients where I live. We are being forced out of our own community and most of us, have true non-stop chronic pain that cannot be treated by surgery. I have been stuck in my bed for days due to the pain of not being able to even go to the ER. It has cripled me and my family is suffering from my pain too. I have perminent straightening of my cervical spine and two herniated discs, with two more that have spurs and I've lost mobility in my arms and legs. I have nerve root exposure and chronic migraines and I have never felt more alone or discriminated against in my life. While I am stuck waiting to find out whats going to happen to my doctor, whats going to happen to me? I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack from the pain and I don't want to wake up sometimes. My doctor is a good man and I believe in him, he saved my life, gave me some quality of life and now?

It is my fondest wish that each and every DEA agent suffers intractable pain and cannot find a doctor who will treat their pain thanks to their sadistic policies. The DEA would rather thousands suffer than one addict deceive a doctor. The DEA is a great example of a rogue government agency that needs to be shut down. The DEA seems to have become a repository for cowards, sadists, and right wing sociopaths!

in 1989 i fell on a glass coke bottle that some idiot left on a side walk in the winter ice and as i put my hand down it ran right smack up into my hand cutting my 3 tendons and i had to have surgery and in 2001 some idiot back stabber who demanded 25 cents stuck me in the back with a sharp object and took off running when i told him i didnt have money only credit cards on me, now as i get older and yearsof being a ironcraftsmen im in chronic pain in and near i was stabbed by my spine and upper lower neck area and my hand I was for 3 years getting ms contin for my pain at 3 a day never evr increasing the dose as at 3 a day i could function pain free and if i increased the dose id be too tired and couldnt function . now thanks to Mr Right wing Bush man new law id have to go al the way to florida to get what works so well for me and my pain I cant afford to got there and in search for a pain clinic in the n west states area of wash state, orgegon or Idaho or Montana. I havent found a dr here yet whos not a paranoid schztzo to prescribe whats legal to be prescribed in the 1st place talk about selfish people and cowards. If anyone knows of a open minded docter whos not afriad to prescribe meds to people with legit reasons for taking em please email me at zr1zora2008@aol.com i and please dont think im some kid looking for ahigh im a 47 yr old man whos very sucessfull and has worked hard his whole life whos raising afamily and has legitimate reasons for taking opiates Sure im tolerant i dont deny it but im not a addict and i know im not as i would never increase the dose to get thartwhat evr feeling people look for for me it kills the pain and i live abetter life and can function with out being irratbale and uncomfortable from the pain If you know somweone let me know it would defenilty be along term relation ship not a one night stand hahahahalol