There is too much damage and harm being done by the DEA, especially to Chronic Pain patients. One of my main heartburns is the way opioid deaths are reported. Nowhere does it seem that any investigative work is done to see what actually happened. Most of the deaths (suicide and accidental) are coming from street drugs - which some are turning to once things like in your OP happen. With all the hassles I have in trying to get my meds from the pharmacy, I've given that route more than a passing thought, myself. But at my age, I'd have no idea where to even look these days. And I guess I should say "thank goodness" for that naivety, else I may have been one of the statistics, myself. There have been those months when the number of pills I'm allotted (like, 3 per day) didn't come anywhere close to easing, let alone conquering, the pain I felt.
Somehow, somewhere, we've got to get somebody to listen to us with more than a casual or biased ear. Real people... people who are in no way abusing their meds and who only want to live as normally as possible... are being worse than ignored. We're actively being thrown to the wolves, as though our lives don't matter. We're being sacrificed on the altar of an ideal. And I say No law about us, without us.
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