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Methadone Patients receiving it for addiction treatment, Patients receiving Methadone for acute pain, Providers, Families & Friends Against Hysteria and Further Restrictions
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | City | State | Tell us of Your Experience with Methadone for Opiate Addiction Treatment |
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| 2,992 | 12:57 pm PST, Nov 20 | Jonathan E Powers | tuscaloosa | Alabama | It saved my life. | |
| 2,991 | 12:51 pm PST, Nov 20 | Mr. | Tom Samson | eau claire | Wisconsin | I am a methadone matinence patient in eau claire wisconsin. I used to be a junkie that spent up 120$ a day om heroin, morphene, and before I herd about methadone treatment. I used to be a drug dealer and doer, and i have been in and out of jail since i was 14 years old for drug offenses. At one point i didnt work for over 3 years because I paid my bills doing and selling drugs. I have been clean now for over 2 years, work 2 jobs and I am a full time student who is going to school to be a treatment counselor. without this form of treatment im not sure that i would have been able to change my life. I have a girl friend who is also in treatment with me and we are looking to buy a house now and have a child. This is not a mirricle drug but it saved my life and i know it will save more. this drug doesnt get you high, not enough to satisfy an urge anyway, which is why people have to mix it and o.d., it does however block the effects of opioids, stop withdrawl symptoms, end cravings, and allows the burnt out receptors in the brian of the addicted to function normally. I compare it to depression meds, are those patients addicted because they have to take meds every day to function?????? this drug saved my life!!!!!! cars kill people who misuse them to, dont penelise us all for the actions of a few who probubly werent even in treatment, and probubly didnt even get there drugs from a maintinence patient anyway. we go in for our meds, pain management people take them out and are less restricted. think before you do this, prison are over full and this is a great alternative, i think it should be more widly used, responsibly that is!!!! |
| 2,990 | 9:36 am PST, Nov 20 | Anonymous | brick | New Jersey | It saved my life. I went from being a junkie who woke up every single day, for 6 years, stealing from store to store and state to state, living in motel rooms, with nothing, to support my large habit. Now i am a full time college student, with my own place, a degree in cosmetology , engaged, with a new car, and every thing i could ever want thanks to methadone. Once i didnt have to feel cravings any more and didnt have to worry bout being sick, i found other productive things to do with my time. the trick for me was, go up as high as i could for a while to get off heroin then finally come down and taper off. i am 5 years on the clinic and slowly coming down cause i feel strong enough now since any part of my previous life is gone. | |
| 2,989 | 10:43 pm PST, Nov 19 | Ms. | Anonymous | Meridian | Mississippi | It has truly saved me. I hold down a full-time job, and am a productive member of society now. All thanks to my methadone treatment. |
| 2,988 | 10:37 am PST, Nov 18 | Mr. | Anonymous | charlotte | North Carolina | Methadone saved my life and saved me from losing my family! I was on anywhere between 25 and 50 oc's or percs a day and finally went to the clinic. Its been over 2 years now and I havent snorted a pill since. I am on a low dose (40mg) and it gets me through the day! Leave the med alone because its the user who has to make the choice of just taking methadone. I have a lot of friends who have saved their lives by walking through that clinic door. |
| 2,987 | 4:43 am PST, Nov 16 | glen pofahl | janesville | Wisconsin | I work for a MMT program and methadone does work with people that have a long history of abusing opaites. Methadone has gotten a bad rap over the years yes it has been abused but that is not the drugs fault its the people using methadone the work way. We have a huge problem with heroin in our country and we need to use methadone to help treat people or suboxone since Long term treatment places are out of the wuestion for most opiate addicts. | |
| 2,986 | 9:06 am PST, Nov 15 | Ms. | Kimbery Smith | Savannah | Georgia | ive been on MM for a few years i do believe that i would not have what i have if it wasnt for MM.Ive also had recently 2 family members die from over dose that included methadone i do not blame the methodone but instead the other narcotics they ingested with the methodone they were aware of what was not suppose to be taken on top of the methadone.My brothers death was different i blame the hospital because they knew he was on it and i believe the hospital overdosed him.Thats another story.I do not use other narcotics with my methodone for many reasons.And let me add i have two grand children that are methodone babies that are perfect. |
| 2,985 | 9:16 am PST, Nov 14 | James R. Batey | Skowhegan | Maine | I started out going to a REHAB program in Southern Maine that prescribes Suboxone to patients, And after about 6 months on the Suboxone program, I decided that enough was enough, I did not like the side effects of the Suboxone and did not get along with the Dr that was prescribing me my Suboxone, so I went to the Discovery House program for Methadone Maintenance. I have been on Methadone for 4 months now, and I love it. I do not crave opiates anymore, I do not have any side effects at all with the Methadone. I think that the daily dose that I recieve at Discovery House is a good program and helps many people across the State of Maine, and through out the country. Methadone is not a bad drug, Methadone can only be as good as the providers and the patients who are using Methadone. When used correctly, Methadone is very safe and effective. I wouldnt want to be on anything different at this point in time. | |
| 2,984 | 1:17 am PST, Nov 13 | Ms. | Anonymous | Colorado Springs | Colorado | I have been a successful patient at a methadone clinic since Sept, 2003. My start date would have been June, 2002 but because of this exact reason, the hysteria and misinformation surrounding this life-saving medication, I was forced into a truly horrible decision: I had to get a liver transplant and my choice was as follows: I could either stay in my methadone program and most likely not be eligible to get put on the transplant list or I could leave the program and be put on the list. I chose to leave the methadone program and was able to be put on the list and then received a new liver in Aug 2003. i went back onto methadone a month later, much to the anger and dismay of my liver doctors. I, of course, had been on large quantities of very powerful pain killers during this period and knew that if I didn't get back into the program immediately, I was going to not only be traveling down the same old path of addiction but I would be spitting in the faces of the friends and family of the woman whose life had been lost and therefore I was allowed to be the recepient of her most generous gift. I was certainly not going to do that. So, I have been in the program for almost 6 years and I have never had a dirty UA, missed a counseling session or not paid my bill. I have also been able to stay away from all other substances as well including alcohol which was probably the most insidious of my numerous addictions. I cannot express my total gratitude for this medication and the time is long past for people to stop acting like we are nothing more than a bunch of addicts who are just "getting away with it". Thank you for this wonderful petition! |
| 2,983 | 8:17 am PST, Nov 11 | Mr. | Anonymous | Dixon | Illinois | I was on a very strong opiate pain killer and was also using street narcotics to ease my pain and anxiety. I started Methadone treatment in April of 2008 and have been pain, anxiety, and drug free since! It DOES save lives and DOES improve a persons OVERALL perspective on life and the opportunities that ARE out there for us. If it wernt for Methadone I dont know where I'd be right now. Wait...... yes I do. I'd be a daily narcotic user, shut off from a decent future, and in constant pain until one day the pain becomes too much to deal with. METHADONE WHEN TAKEN CORRECTLY SAVES AND MOST OF ALL IMPROVES A PERSONS OVERALL HOPE AND OUTLOOK IN LIFE. |
| 2,982 | 2:45 pm PST, Nov 10 | Mr. | Anonymous | Mobile | Alabama | Methadone works best for me AND SAVES ME A LOT OF MONEY |
| 2,981 | 9:15 am PST, Nov 10 | david morgan | portland | Oregon | Methadone has been a wonderful gift in my life. I've only been back on for six days and I'm already feeling better. I can feel my life coming back together! | |
| 2,980 | 3:51 am PST, Nov 10 | Ms. | Jamie Bradshaw | Cinnaminson | New Jersey | Hi everyone, I've been on methadone maintence in a clinic for about 9 years for opiate use, I'm 29 now and trying to slowly come down on the methadone, my dose is 61 mgs. right now where I stopped my detox at. I need a break before going down again. I have Great news, My first clinic I was on 5 of those 9 yrs. is FINALLY SHUT DOWN!! I used to be on the internet working with advocates to help do something about that Horribly run methadone clinic and hey maybe my help worked. My clinic I've been at for past 3 yrs. is new, very updated electronically, clean, and run the way methadone clinics should be run! I also have a 2 yr. old baby girl I had while on methadone and she really is an Angel. Most Important- Methadone Maintence SAVED MY LIFE!!! Thank You for listening, Jamie B. |
| 2,979 | 8:13 pm PST, Nov 7 | Ms. | Deborah Suzich | Westland | Michigan | My son is on methadone & it has kept him clean for the past 4 years without 1 relapse! Please don't punish my son & I just because other ignorant people decide to abuse methadone & die from it! |
| 2,978 | 4:54 pm PST, Nov 7 | Ms. | Kathleen Blewitt | Phoenixville | Pennsylvania | I have been clean off heroin and crack cocaine for 2yrs. I have 3 beautiful children and a wonderful fiance. I also am the store manager of a Hair Salon. None of this would have been possible without methadone. I am so grateful and wish people would understand the good its done for people. |
| 2,977 | 3:01 am PST, Nov 7 | Mrs. | Sam Thomson | Edinburgh | METHADONE TURNED MY LIFE AROUND FROM CHAOTIC HEROIN AND CRACK COCAINE ADDICTION TO ABSTINENCE FROM STREET DRUG. I HAVE BEEN CLEAN NOW FOR 4 YEARS AND AM LIVING A SO CALLED ' NORMAL ' LIFE. DRACONIAN DRUG LAWS LIKE THOSE IN AMERICA ONLY PUNISH ADDICTS INSTEAD OF TRYING TO HELP TO REHABILITATE - ADDICTS ARE HUMAN BEINGS AS WELL - I WISH EVERYONE WOULD TREAT ADDICTS AS NORMAL PEOPLE WHO REQUIRE MEDICATION DAILY LIKE A DIABETIC WHO REQUIRES INSULIN DAILY. METHADONE WORKS - GOVERNMENTS - LISTEN TO THE PATIENTS WHO RECEIVE IT INSTEAD OF THE MEDIA. | |
| 2,976 | 8:14 am PST, Nov 6 | Ms. | Mary Lawrence | Heavener | Oklahoma | well i can say that i am not on methadone for opiod addiction but i take it for my lupus and r a. It is hard for me to find a doctor that will continue giving methadone since my original dr. of three years lost his ability to give scripts due to the tight hold on methadone in oklahoma. I have two healthy sisters that are currently going to methadone clinics because of their addictions to narcotics. I fully support methadone clinics for all that need it.I am upset with a government that left me without medication for three months and i had no clue it could happen. I did not know what to do my pain was so severe all i could do was cry. No one wants to help people on methadone.Shame on them we are people,too! anything i can do to help i will do. I dont want to suffer anymore. |
| 2,975 | 4:41 pm PST, Nov 4 | Mr. | Anonymous | haliburton | Missouri | i feel much more focused and better on methadone. less likely to crash my car. i get much more work done in my personal business. i don't support illegal drug dealers anymore. if it wasn't for methadone i would have surely comitted suicide. this is a very good drug to get me off illegal drugs. it doesn't get me high. i took drugs to get high, but couldn't stop because of the withdrawals. i wanted to quit drugs and methadone made it possible. this is a miracle drug. never ever take it away from people who have made the positive decision to change their lives. it prevents millions if not billions of dollars going to illegal drug dealers. thank you for this help. |
| 2,974 | 3:46 pm PST, Nov 3 | Ms. | Jamie Lynne Sladewski | Wareham | Massachusetts | I have been clean for 5 yrs with Methadone maintenence along with couseling. Sadly everyone clings to negative information or just wont take the time to educate themselves on the subject of drugs, addiction, drug abuse, drug use, forms of drug rehabilitation (ex MMT), and drug prevention. For me I needed the combination of both treatments. I do see alot of people using the system but I see more normal people at the methadone clinic that some would never guess they had a problem. All Im asking is not to judge. Also for the state and fed programs to open there eyes too many people abuse welfare and disability. Those of us who need it for our health care fall through the cracks too many times. |
| 2,973 | 4:54 pm PST, Nov 2 | Ms. | Anonymous | FLORENCE | Alabama | Its working for me been 5 years |
| 2,972 | 11:42 am PST, Nov 2 | Mr. | Anonymous | Jupiter | Florida | I am a middle aged man in my fifties, fairly sucsesful in my life. Though I earn a good living and certainly appear to be normal man in my everyday life I have been as few others know... addicted to herion and opiates for over 40 years. When I think of the time wasted (Viet Nam was still a very real part of life when I began shooting dope and I feel I have very little left to give. I have tried close to EVERY type of rehab that there is I first used a methadone Maint. Program in 1972 when it was still new, while not a complete sucess, It worked however better than anything else I tried Now the rules and restictions are worse than they ever were. But other than going to a civilized country and getting on a herion Maint. program it is all I have left. I hope I can make it work as I don't wish to move and leave my family. Good luck to all. |
| 2,971 | 2:22 pm PST, Nov 1 | Anonymous | parkville | Maryland | Methadone matience 6 months and cdurrently on bupe matience | |
| 2,970 | 11:20 am PDT, Oct 31 | Anonymous | Charlevoix | Michigan | Gave me a life back. A quality life, a productive life. | |
| 2,969 | 10:42 am PDT, Oct 29 | Mrs. | Sheri Haba | Fredericktown | Pennsylvania | I read a few of the comments and I was surprised at the postive posts!! There is such a stigma with methadone patients in this area. I have been on it for almost 3 years now and can say without a doubt that it is saving my life! I have struggled with addiction since I was 11 years old. I am now 48. I also struggled with the stigma! I tried meetings for years and in my opinion, in this area, they are a joke. It's a meat market and if you relapse, you are blackballed. Methadone is considered using around here, but, I know how I feel! I do not get high on it, and I don't want to get high on it. I don't want to use today. That is a statement that I could not make for years. My problem now with it is that in 2004 I got caught driving on a suspended license, DUI related, and that is an automatic 60 to 90 days in jail. Pittsburgh will not provide the methadone, and I am scared. But, we will see what my attorney can come up with. Pray for me, my hearing is December 1, 2009. |
| 2,968 | 10:18 am PDT, Oct 29 | Ella johnson | richmond | Virginia | I have been battling with addiction for over 30 years and in the past 8 have achieved a quality of life that I never thought possible due to Methadone. I have had clean urines. volunteered in my community and have found a new sense of self, However I do feel stigmatized and frustrated as my provider sometimes is not very professional and since the clinic has a captive audience there is not much incentive to raise the bar on the care that is given. I receive 27 takeouts but still pay 400 a month for the meth as well as 389 for insurance coverage that does not cover my medication. My big concern is that at 47, I can do this for another 10 years but once I retire I am fearful of what will happen. We need to make sure that our voices are heard, thanks for the petition, | |
| 2,967 | 12:57 am PDT, Oct 28 | Victoria Lopez | salt lake city | Utah | saved my life, and my child | |
| 2,966 | 12:25 am PDT, Oct 28 | Mr. | Anonymous | Nanuet | New York | works |
| 2,965 | 12:46 pm PDT, Oct 27 | Cherie Bruckman, MSSW, LSW, CSW | New Albany | Indiana | I am a counselor at Southern Indiana Treatment Center. This is a methadone clinic that continues to save lives from drug addiction. | |
| 2,964 | 11:56 am PDT, Oct 27 | Ms. | Anonymous | Columbia | South Carolina | After years of car accidents and surgeries and irresponsible doctors prescribing me pain med's like crazy, I am thankful that I am finally able to live a normal life. If it were not for methadone therapy I don't know what I would have done. After the doctors had "fixed me" in their eyes, they cut off the pain med's that I had been taking EVERY SINGLE DAY for over 5 years....now that is irresponsibility by the doctors. |
| 2,963 | 12:14 pm PDT, Oct 26 | Ms. | Tracy Shannon | sault ste. marie | Michigan | I have been in & out of recovery from I.V. using for many years and recieved methadone for both mat & chronic pain, all I kno if I function like a normal citizen. And I can almost guarantee people who have o.d., it was from a cocktail. Benzos are the culprit. |
| 2,962 | 4:23 pm PDT, Oct 25 | Sarah Q | Savannah | Georgia | Oh my God. MMT saved me and my husbands lives.We were taking so many oxys a day that I caused myself slight liver damage and im in my 20's. It was scary and I did not know how I was going to get off the pills. We have children that do not need to know that they had drug addicted parents and this way we get our dose and counseling and we are doing great. We have not found the right dosage yet but when we do, we know that everything will be alright and that this is not the end for us, but the beginning. The program is not without its flaws but I am grateful for it. People have the misconception that MMT patients are trashy heroin addicts looking for a high when in reality we are just an average couple working and in college trying to continue our education. Again, this have saved our lives. | |
| 2,961 | 10:35 am PDT, Oct 24 | Mr. | Carlos Martinez | Lawrence | Massachusetts | I am on a methadone clinic and have been sober for over one year. I am a patient advocate at my clinic also. |
| 2,960 | 9:58 am PDT, Oct 24 | Mr. | michael lemay | baton rouge | Louisiana | Methadone has saved my life. I have been an addict for 10 years and I stopped using the first day of methadone treatment. |
| 2,959 | 1:46 pm PDT, Oct 21 | Mr. | Mark Cook | Bradenton | Florida | My mother has been using methadone for her chronic back pains for the past 7 or 8 years. I have seen the way methadone has changed her life. She has no insurance and she has severe chronic back pain and for years she struggled to get someone to help her with her intense pain. Doctors would not prescribe her anything long term and after a few surgeries which did nothing but give her more pain she realized she couldn't go under the knife again. I should state, she did have insurance from 1993-1997 which are the years she had her surgeries and in 1998 we lost it due to the price inflation of it. Basically methadone has given my mother a life again. Before methadone all she could do was sit in her recliner all day and read a book or watch television. She had too much intensive pains to begin to walk for a long period of time. It made me as a young lone child who was only 10 years old cry. I could do nothing to help my mother for the longest time. Everything changed when her brother told her about the methadone clinics. She felt like she was 15 years younger again. I saw my mom walk with me around the block for the first time. I felt like I was in heaven. I had my mom back. I just want to say, Methadone isn't only for ex-addicts. It's also for legit pain management and it has helped my mother and others for years and years. I can't imagine anyone who would wish to cause others to suffer by taking this drug out of the hands of decent suffering people who desperately need it. Please, it isn't Methadone's fault that people die from it. It's the fault of people abusing it for recreation or not reading the directions correctly. OR the medical staff for not prescribing it correctly. Anyways I just wanted to say my peace. I feel like I owe methadone and the people who make it possible for my mom to get it every week all my thanks and help. I am now able to enjoy life with my mom again and every child should have that. |
| 2,958 | 6:56 am PDT, Oct 21 | Mr. | marc j paglia | lowell | Massachusetts | it removed the gun from the side of my head |
| 2,957 | 6:39 pm PDT, Oct 20 | Ms. | Anonymous | Honolulu | Hawaii | |
| 2,956 | 3:47 pm PDT, Oct 19 | Mr. | Will Boyd | Quincy | Massachusetts | I became addicted after being prescribed percocet and oxycontin for "Lupus" pain. I was always fighting my doctors for adequate dosages to control my agony. I became frustrated and started forging prescriptions, tripling my dosages for ten years until arrested. I was charged with hundreds of counts of prescription fraud and had no pain medication. I then started heroin and drinking when they cut my prescriptions to ease the pain and dull my constant anxiety. I was absolutely terrified because I knew I was going to jail and was so suicidal. I had completely given up. I was constantly asking God to kill me. Finally a friend in recovery got me into a one year treatment center in NYC,"Su Casa" LESC (lower east side service center) a methadone assisted recovery program. It ABSOLUTELY saved my life and kept me out of jail, a complete miracle! It's now been over 5 years and my life is back on track. I've got my family back and am doing well. If it were not for Methadone I am sure I would be dead. After all this time I'm still haunted by thoughts of using and thank God for Methadone. Its enabled me to ward off such temptations and even help with the pain. If I were forced to give up Methadone it would be completely disastrous and would surely destroy all I've regained. Sincerely, William Boyd |
| 2,954 | 4:24 am PDT, Oct 18 | Mr. | William Robbins | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | Has saved my life! |
| 2,953 | 9:28 am PDT, Oct 17 | Ms. | Anonymous | Elizabeth | New Jersey | Dear Sir or Madam,I have been on MMT with success since 1982..These 27 years on methadone maintenance have significantly improved my lifestyle as compared to who/what I was before methadone treatment...The problem with methadone induced death is NOT the methadone medication itself,it is the recreational user of this drug who will obtain methadone without having an opiate addiction,as well as those people who decide to "mix" other medications with methadone,both resulting in death...It is the fault of the human being ingesting the methadone,not the methadone..Thank you... |
| 2,952 | 11:15 am PDT, Oct 16 | Mr. | Craig Baum | Phoenix | Arizona | This medication is Life Saving! Methadone does not get me HIGH. It allows me to be a productive member of our society. |
| 2,951 | 4:46 pm PDT, Oct 15 | LAURIE LINDNER | Wenham | Massachusetts | I had tried EVERY type of treatment possible...from the state run to Hazelton in Minnesota. In some cases I stayed through out the treatment and did well as long as I was in a halfway house,etc. BUT, I ALWAYS relapsed..sometimes in 3 months ,once almost a year later. I would feel SOOO terrible and depressed after coming off the heroin and I went to 2,sometimes 3 meetings a day. I did the steps, I did everything I was told ...BUT, I couldn't stay clean,until methadone. I am ,now, 10 years clean and methadone has given me back my life. I have my children in my life and I have my career back( and my sanity!). |
Methadone Patients Against Hysteria and Further Restrictions
We are Methadone Patients, Providers, Families and Friends AGAINST the Hysteria which is calling for Further Restrictions on the Prescribing of Methadone.
There has been much written of late about the rise in deaths due to the abuse of Methadone. We lament these deaths, but feel that there has arisen an hysteria that proposes to restrict futher the prescription of this life-saving medication to the detriment of the 250,000 patients who receive this drug daily in addiction treatment programs across the United States. An overdose due to a person's recreational use of illicitly obtained methadone is NOT the fault of the drug, but of the person abusing the drug. Accidental overdoses by persons legitimately prescribed the drug for pain management purposes is again, not the fault of the drug, but of medical personnel who may not be educating patients enough to the dangers of such a long-acting analgesic. Deaths due to the recreational abuse of the drug lies with the abuser, not the substance.
Methadone when used correctly is an effective and inexpensive pain medication. In addiction treatment programs, methadone acts as endorphin replacement for the damaged brain chemistries brought about by long term exposure to opiates. It has been utilized safely and scrutinized closely for five decades, and has been declared the "gold standard" for opiate addiction treatment by our government's National Institutes of Health. It is also the most closely regulated drug in existance when used for this purpose. Investigations over the last three years by the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration has shown that illicit methadone on the streets of America originates in pain management programs and NOT addiction treatment facilities.
Methadone SAVES lives! There are a quarter of a million patients receiving it daily in addiction treatment facilities across America who will attest to that fact. It is safe when used properly, and effective in the endorphin replacement therapy needed by these patients. We the undersigned wish to implore the Federal Centers for Substance Abuse Treatment(CSAT) to not fall victim to the hysteria presently surrounding this drug, and to make any changes where they belong -- in the pain management centers of America and NOT its addiction treatment programs.
An overdose death is always lamentable, but let's not "throw the baby out with the bathwater" and keep any changes to the offending areas of distribution. That is NOT the opiate addiction treatment programs of America.
There has been much written of late about the rise in deaths due to the abuse of Methadone. We lament these deaths, but feel that there has arisen an hysteria that proposes to restrict futher the prescription of this life-saving medication to the detriment of the 250,000 patients who receive this drug daily in addiction treatment programs across the United States. An overdose due to a person's recreational use of illicitly obtained methadone is NOT the fault of the drug, but of the person abusing the drug. Accidental overdoses by persons legitimately prescribed the drug for pain management purposes is again, not the fault of the drug, but of medical personnel who may not be educating patients enough to the dangers of such a long-acting analgesic. Deaths due to the recreational abuse of the drug lies with the abuser, not the substance.
Methadone when used correctly is an effective and inexpensive pain medication. In addiction treatment programs, methadone acts as endorphin replacement for the damaged brain chemistries brought about by long term exposure to opiates. It has been utilized safely and scrutinized closely for five decades, and has been declared the "gold standard" for opiate addiction treatment by our government's National Institutes of Health. It is also the most closely regulated drug in existance when used for this purpose. Investigations over the last three years by the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration has shown that illicit methadone on the streets of America originates in pain management programs and NOT addiction treatment facilities.
Methadone SAVES lives! There are a quarter of a million patients receiving it daily in addiction treatment facilities across America who will attest to that fact. It is safe when used properly, and effective in the endorphin replacement therapy needed by these patients. We the undersigned wish to implore the Federal Centers for Substance Abuse Treatment(CSAT) to not fall victim to the hysteria presently surrounding this drug, and to make any changes where they belong -- in the pain management centers of America and NOT its addiction treatment programs.
An overdose death is always lamentable, but let's not "throw the baby out with the bathwater" and keep any changes to the offending areas of distribution. That is NOT the opiate addiction treatment programs of America.
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