This group was formed as an advocacy group: to support and educate those who suffer acute or chronic pain as well as to defend the rights of those suffering to adequate treatment in a country where studies have shown pain to be vastly undertreated. Our mission entails reversing the current, increasing denial of adequate treatment and advocates a return to the 1990's when treatment had been slowly improving as the education of the medical community improved and as it accepted the pioneering research/work of pain specialists who had proven it unethical not to treat chronic pain with opiates since they, alone, represent safe, non-addicting, and effective treatment. The reasons for slow improvement
were complex, but the current reversal in which it is increasingly denied is not. A federal agency and many state governments are causing the treatment of pain to be an illegal activity, substituting their or a civilian jury's judgment for that of the medical profession in defining adequate treatment. A large percentage of our pain doctors have been and are being investigated/prosecuted as criminals merely for trying to relieve the misery of their patients who are also being targeted and prosecuted. The prosecutions are making our doctors increasingly cautious, forced to practice what most consider to be malpractice. We are dedicated to the constitutional right to be treated with legal medications, legally prescribed, and FDA approved for such treatment and so will support any legal action, any legislative remedy, and as well as any organization dedicated to actively restoring our right to adequate treatment. This includes support for both doctors who have or are treating pain appropriately as defined by the medical profession and for those who do take their medications as prescribed and/or who remain untreated or inadequately treated.
**PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION FOR BETTER PAIN CARE AT: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/880163338?ltl=1159989856 **