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[Dustlawyer]

5. The problem not mentioned is the effect it has already been having for people who need

these prescriptions. Their doctors are afraid to write these prescriptions, while those wanting to abuse these powerful drugs can still find pill doctors who will.

Both my mother and father-in-law recently had surgeries and were given Tramodol, a very mild pain reliever instead of the stronger stuff. I watched both suffer extreme pain with no relief.

I agree something needs to be done about this problem of abuse, but there needs to be safe guards to protect patients with real pain, those with allergies to alternative medications, and those with chronic pain that have no alternatives they can use. So far all efforts have failed to correct the problem, have not only failed, but hurt those who need these medications. They are piss tested and treated like criminals for the crime of being in severe pain!