Are Dr.s Using Dea Rule As Excuse, Or Opportunity To To Stop Meds?

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Folks

Best chance with this is generally to go to the VA Patient Advocate but pain medications have become increasingly controversial? As a result, your Primary Care Doctor will have to advocate for you to continue to get your pain meds. Unfortunately, although there are a small minority that may abuse their pain meds..it looks like a very wide net is being cast out to try and reel in the situation for the wider group of pain patients? As a result, patients that really need their meds, as their situation calls for it are being affected negatively which is a real shame. For some doctors, it appears the "safe versus sorry scenario " may be in play here because some may have forgotten their oath to reduce the suffering of their patients? It' s disheartening when politics can override the authority of a doctor to care for their patients and this may constitute an overaction to the pain meds policy in the first place? The bottom line is that pain meds and the amount that a patient is perscribed should be determined by the doctor on an individual basis and not rest on policies along to curb pain med prescriptions? This kind of policy is going to effect a lot of folks adversely when that was not the intent of the policy in the first place. Overreaching is always dangerous and is going to be more costly in the long run to everyone involved.