Do you think opiate pain medications should be outlawed for noncancer sufferers as in chronic pain?

[Jamastiene]

87. No.

There are more things than cancer that cause chronic pain on a daily basis. People should be allowed relief from the pain. Why the FDA and all these other groups are slowly banning pain medications is a mystery to me. I don't get it. So many people in so much pain and they are banning stuff left and right.

My aunt has been in misery since they banned her Darvocet. So, they put her on Tramadol. Just a couple weeks ago, they made her go sign a bunch of forms promising to get tested and all sorts of other stipulations on being prescribed the same medicine she has already been on for a year or two now. The thing is, even though she has followed all of their new rules, they still have not refilled her prescription. She's weening off of it and in horrible pain right now because they are dragging their feet on refilling the prescription. It is all she can do. I wish the VA would hurry up and catch up and refill it for her.

She's in agony and there isn't much I can do to help. Without the pain medicine, it sounds like I'm torturing her in here, even though I have no clue what to do to help. I wish I knew a few drug dealers. I'd resort to that at this point, simply because so many groups are pushing to take away all the pain medicines that work on chronic pain.