<p>There are 100,000,000 people in the US suffering from chronic pain, and the CDC, FDA, and VA are attempting to take medications away from a majority of them. Only patients with terminal cancer or in hospice will be allowed opiate medications. That means people with nerve damage, peripheral neuropathy, arthritis, Lupus, Lyme Disease, Fibromyalgia, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome would not be allowed opiate pain medications. The CDC has taken it a step further now say that even patients after surgery would receive little to no opiate care. That means when you break you leg you get Tylenol. When you get your appendix out, Tylenol. When you get severe nerve damage, Tylenol. The CDC, FDA, VA, and media all forget there are patients that rely on these medications to live. The CDC have been padding numbers of the amounts of opiate overdoses in the US by including illegal Fentanyl and Heroin overdoses. The numbers are further inflated by those that commit suicide by opiate overdoses. <br />These agencies are treating those suffering from chronic pain like criminals. Like they should be ashamed of the medications they take. Anti-depressants and anxiety medications kill just as many people each year as Heroin and yet we are not talking about limiting the number of patients eligible for those medications. Why? Because people can recognize a need for those medications. Well, there is just as much need for pain management. There are types of chronic pain that don't require daily medications to function but there are just as many need them. And, just like an anti-depressant or insulin, our bodies become dependent on the medications to survive. However, dependence is not addiction. As long as patients take their medications as prescribed, there is no problem with opiates and over 95% of chronic pain patients take their medications as prescribed. They could take their medications for a year or twenty years and as long as they take them as directed there should not be an issue. And yet, here we are. Chronic pain patients are not the scary monsters that the main stream media make us out to be. We are normal people who happen to suffer from conditions that present with chronic pain and who require medication to manage their medical conditions. We are your parents, your siblings, your children, your neighbors, your friends, your spouses. We are 1 in 3 Americans. We are NOT criminals! We are patients, not addicts! #PatientsNotAddicts</p>
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