To: Governor Kate Brown
Governor Brown: Stop Oregon from Adopting CDC Guidelines as Opiate Prescribing Policy
Our state owes Oregonians living in chronic pain a treatment for addiction that does not jeopardize the care and treatment of chronic pain patients. We have a right to proper care and treatment for our medical conditions. We have done nothing wrong and should not be condemned to death for crimes we did not commit. We are #PatientsNotAddicts and we have rights, too!!
Why is this important?
The CDC Guidelines deny all non-cancerous chronic pain patients access to opiate therapy to improve their functionality and quality of life, even though 95% of chronic pain patients use their medications responsibly (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073133/) and as directed under the direction of at least one doctor. These patients are being given no alternatives to manage their chronic pain which will leave most self medicating with street drugs, alcohol, or even suicide. Save the innocent victims of the 'opiate epidemic' : chronic pain patients of Oregon.
There are many problems with the CDC Guidelines:
They were written by bias, self-serving interest groups (http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/9/24/3xz1qq23yuilyeluz63kgwckplwh21)
There were no scientific study or basis for the guidelines (https://edsinfo.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/fda-endorses-biased-and-unscientific-cdc-opioid-guidelines/)
The CDC itself admits that the guidelines were never meant to be policy or law. (http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54d50ceee4b05797b34869cf/t/578e661603596e40a74db59e/1468950040230/Houry+letter.pdf)
(http://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/7/19/cdc-opioid-guidelines-not-rule-regulation-or-law)
Save chronic pain patients. Even though we are #PatientsNotAddicts we still have rights! Say NO TO THE CDC GUIDELINES AS OREGON OPIATE PRESCRIBING!