Tens of Thousands of Chronic Pain Patients Want to Sue the CDC

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71% of chronic pain patients surveyed report that their prescriptions for opioid analgesics have been either reduced or rescinded by doctors openly claiming they were forced to do so under threat by the DEA Prescription Drug Division or the State Medical Board / Health Department. These enforcement agencies all cite as impetus and justification the arbitrary 90 MME limit established by the 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines.

A great number of these pain patients resorted to suicide or to the Street to cope with the loss of these prescriptions. Strangely enough, the CDC claims their Guidelines are misapplied to chronic pain patients and were only intended to help PCPs prescribe painkillers to alleviate acute pain in opioid-naive patients. Yet everyone is adopting the recommended 90 MME per day limit. The Prescription Drug Monitoring Database has been weaponized into a surveillance and detection tool to spy on medical appointments and target doctors for threats, raids, suspensions, and prosecutions (the vast majority of which are overturned in the courts).

Are there not violations here of human, civil, and Constitutional rights not to mention the rights of persons with disabilities?

(1) the basic human right to compassionate care (International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1976))
(2) Constitutional right to pursue a life free from pain through individualized, patient-centered care;
(3) the right to a private relationship with a doctor (unfettered by the DEA using the Death Star-esque Prescription Drug Monitoring Database as a surveillance tool);
(4) a physician's right to exercise clinical judgements based on training, intimate knowledge of the patient, and something called the Hippocratic Oath;
(5) physician's right to due process of law before and after their careers were destroyed by a DEA raid on their offices;
(6) rights of Americans with disabilities to equal and effective medical accommodations (Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), 42 Ch USC 126 Subchapter II Part A (42 USC Section 12102(2)(B) and Section 12102(E)(i)(I))
(7) consumer's right to pursue products or services known to make a difference in his or her quality of life (free market);
(8) citizens right to expect policies based on scholarly motives and a science free from bias and conflict (objectivity).

What can any of us do?
 
71% of chronic pain patients surveyed report that their prescriptions for opioid analgesics have been either reduced or rescinded by doctors openly claiming they were forced to do so under threat by the DEA Prescription Drug Division or the State Medical Board / Health Department. These enforcement agencies all cite as impetus and justification the arbitrary 90 MME limit established by the 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines.

A great number of these pain patients resorted to suicide or to the Street to cope with the loss of these prescriptions. Strangely enough, the CDC claims their Guidelines are misapplied to chronic pain patients and were only intended to help PCPs prescribe painkillers to alleviate acute pain in opioid-naive patients. Yet everyone is adopting the recommended 90 MME per day limit. The Prescription Drug Monitoring Database has been weaponized into a surveillance and detection tool to spy on medical appointments and target doctors for threats, raids, suspensions, and prosecutions (the vast majority of which are overturned in the courts).

Are there not violations here of human, civil, and Constitutional rights not to mention the rights of persons with disabilities?

(1) the basic human right to compassionate care (International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1976))
(2) Constitutional right to pursue a life free from pain through individualized, patient-centered care;
(3) the right to a private relationship with a doctor (unfettered by the DEA using the Death Star-esque Prescription Drug Monitoring Database as a surveillance tool);
(4) a physician's right to exercise clinical judgements based on training, intimate knowledge of the patient, and something called the Hippocratic Oath;
(5) physician's right to due process of law before and after their careers were destroyed by a DEA raid on their offices;
(6) rights of Americans with disabilities to equal and effective medical accommodations (Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), 42 Ch USC 126 Subchapter II Part A (42 USC Section 12102(2)(B) and Section 12102(E)(i)(I))
(7) consumer's right to pursue products or services known to make a difference in his or her quality of life (free market);
(8) citizens right to expect policies based on scholarly motives and a science free from bias and conflict (objectivity).

What can any of us do?
Talk to an attorney. This is not an issue that an advice site can assist you with.
 
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