Dear Kathy,

I couldn't agree more. Pain is pain whatever it is from and whoever it
happens to. But it's a matter of exposure of the problem. They think that 75
million in chronic pain out of a roughly 300 million population is a lot.
Add in the disabled and injured vets getting insufficient pain treatment
from this oil war, and the aging baby boomers who are beginning their daily
ache and pain patterns, getting cancer and requiring pain care, and it won't
be long before half the country has legitimate needs for access to pain
control. The vets will be out front, as in all things, and treated the
worst, as in all things. Once the precedent is set that vets deserve help,
then it easily becomes a case of why not everyone.
Remember too, many doctors earn their practices through military service. If
the government says it's right to treat pain with pain control, that it's an
important part of putting these people who sacrificed so much, completely
back together again, and restoring the lives they put in harms way, it can
only spread the idea that certain medications are not just for cancer pain
or shrapnel wounds, that pain control is the responsibility of doctors to
treat as aggressively as they must, for everyone. It's not part of a GI
bill, it's a civil right we are all entitled to. Soldiers in pain are
suffering from pain, it's not PSTD, it's not depression. It's just pain and
it can be helped.

If it can revive their lives it can revive ours--og

BTW there is also a chronic pain patients bill of rights I forget the HR but
it's also from 2007, that sits moldering on a shelf somewhere. They should
be the same bill, but any step forward in this environment, is a big step
forward.

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