Help Others In Getting Their Pain Medications Go To Care2petitionsite And Sign Demand That Chronic Suffers Get Medication Now
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Here it is, your sincere effort to help us all get back our right to having our pain medications now!! sign this petition to get action and be a part in changing the DEA'a plan that is surely not working. Give us back our lives, Let the junkies overdose is they so choose to. Go to "Care2petitionsite" now sign the petition on "demand that chronic pain sufferers get their medication now, by valerie. I thank you for your support. Feel free to share it because the more signatures that we get the sooner we can make this a reality.

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Re: BBs (# 247)

Did you ask him why he would not increase it ? If your doctor never looks you in the eye. You need to change doctors. Many years ago I went to a PCP that was so busy looking at her laptop screen she did not answer or look at me. After 15 minutes, I got up and walked out without telling her. I was at the elevator before she looked for me. (I could see the front desk from the elevator)

It is up to each doctor what they prescribe individual patients. Signing a petition will have no impact on what doctors do and do not prescribe.

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I am a chronic pain sufferer. Needed a bump up in my meds by 20 milligrams. Doctor refused me for months. Could not even give me the respect I deserved by not even looking at me, just the computer. Never had a bad U/A.

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Momo (# 8) -- I have severe damage to my spinal column due to not automobile accident. And just by terrible luck or the most horrible convergence of circumstances, I was uninsured. Lost everything I owned....... point being, no Insc=no legitimate pain clinics in Georgia. This was exactly at the time of the emergence of govt intervention in pain meds and PCP's no longer able to control pain. I knew everything was going to be just fine and aok. When has the federal government not gotten involved in anything and not improved it ten fold? Sorry, sarcasm is the last act of the desperate mind. This was in 2009. I believe that the government made their grand entrance into yet another place they had great intentions (I hope so anyway). I remember hearing about this beginning in 2008 as best as I remember. I knew that this was going to be a catastrophe of epic proportions. But it really didn't concern me at the time and in retrospect, the way I have been scolded, reprimanded like a disobedient school child, talked to like a drug seeking addict and the best of all is being told by the most reprehensible and loathsome creature to ever graduate from medical school, his suggestion for me as he spoke to me in a way that had I not been in excruciating pain from the 7 burst fractures in my spinal column and a crushed shoulder joint that has to have a joint replacement, and the maturity and ability to control my responses to being provoked, I would have beaten him so badly that he would have had to find a pain clinic for the lifelong chronic pain I would have caused him and very deservedly I might add. But the worst insult yet was from this physician dedicated to helping the sick, injured and in need of an empathetic and caring human being whose advise was for me to go to the local methadone clinic for heroin addits. This was clearly where I needed to be due to the fact that I was a junkie and he would not treat junkies. I apologize for the slight diversion from the subject, I just get rather triggered by this subject. And I despise that word for the simple fact it makes me sound like a 20 something that has just heard someone say something that makes me need a safe space and a quite room with therapy bunnies and ponies to pet to be able to recover. I feel like if these young people had to live with the debilitating chronic pain that the people on this site had to live with on a daily basis with out an hour in the day to have a minor reprieve from the pain, they really would be needing a therapy bunny to feel better. But I will return to the topic and stay on the path and not vear off on another wild tangent. But as you were saying, I came into this world of narcotics and pain meds and drug screens and pill counts as a complete neophyte to all of this. I drank enough beer in college to probably float an aircraft carrier but had long grown out of that phase without ever experimenting with any illegal drugs. So not only did I end up looking like a jack-o'-lantern on Thanksgiving day, but I also had to have a surgery to repair an anal fissure caused by the extreme constipation that also accompanies the use of opiates. It had got so bad that I literally tore myself internally. And that was a pain that had to be surgically repaired because no human being could possibly take that pain which came with a person's daily bodily function that every human being must do with some regularity. It was unlike the pain that I had with my back and shoulders that was bearable but constant. Probably a 5-6 if I do not do anything that I shouldn't. Like the daily chores that all adults have to do. And for a young healthy man that had a minimum of two jobs at all times since high school, it is a living hell that only my belief and personal relationship with my higher power that kept me from losing my mind completely and if I am being truly honest, it is God that kept me from doing something that would have left my family in pain for the rest of their lives. Now you are starting to see ads for companion medications to the opiates. The dry mouth rinse, gum and toothpaste. The prescription medication for relief from opiate induced constipation. And one last thing that no one has mentioned either, I got my first set of prescriptions from the "pain specialist" and I was in a state of disbelief. It was a cocktail of methadone scheduled, roxycontin 30mg for breakthrough pain as needed, 2mg Xanax times 3 daily and Soma. This was only because I refused to take the 80mg oxycontin for breakthrough pain so he dropped it back to the 30mg. And I asked him exactly how long would my liver and or kidneys withstand that much medication, and he told me that if I remained on that level and amount of meds, I would probably be looking at a kidney transplant and or a liver transplant also sometime in the next 8-10 years. So I used the meds just long enough to develop a dependancy on them before deciding that I had no clue how long it would be before I could get surgical intervention on my spine and shoulder and I couldn't do that anymore. So I flushed everything down the toilet because I was a man who had never been stopped by anything I decided to do. That is how I became the youngest real estate broker in my area before becoming the youngest person elected to public office in my county. And then being the top 40 under 40 in my County and state. And while doing all that, I had been acquiring 22 rental properties and being the top 5 producer in my real estate company in the commercial department in only three years. All of these things was considered extremely ambitious on there own, and all together was completely unheard of for someone who started cold without having the right last name in my town and no trust fund but completely by myself with grit and determination. So I refused to be captive to a bunch of pill bottles,so I flushed them because if I could do all I had done, I could do this. Well when I first remember being fully conscious 3 days later, I realized that maybe I had met my match. And it took me another two years to finally get off each one of the meds one at a time. With the methadone being the last. And I will say that if I have to go back to a pain med for my deteriorating back issues before I can have it repaired, I would go to methadone. It never made me get a high, and it was a very good pain medication. But only if you do not drink alcohol or use any benzodiazopines. The combination of a benzo, methadone and just one mixed drink or a beer and you will not live. But it is still a very effective pain med. I have gotten down to 4) 50mg tramadol a day and concerta for the fatigue and periodically a 75mg Lyrica. And I stay in my bed most of the day and do nothing of any help to anyone. But that is better than having to fight what everyone is fighting now. But I have to say that I worked my way through pre-med on the neuro-orthopedic floor of a level 2 trauma hospital. And got accepted to medical school but chose not to go. But by the time this happened to me, when I left the hospital, that was before the days of oxycontin, roxycontin and the panoply of opiates that had come on the market. That is the reason I didn't have enough sense to realize the amount of medication I was getting was more than patients with CA of the bone was getting when I worked at the hospital. And at the time, bone cancer was the most insideous, cruel fate that anyone could ever have to endure. And I said the amount that I was given, not taking. I didn't know until years later the reason why you could walk into the waiting room at the pain clinic and see the 50/50 split between the people who was there just to get the meds and the dealers. Because anyone who was a legitimate pain patient had insurance and was going to a reputable clinic. I was one of a handful of people that I met in the waiting room that was a legitimate pain patient. And the reason for the massive over prescribing was so people could have enough meds to sell half and take the other half and have the money to return the next month. That is what happens when the federal government gets involved in anything besides the defense of the country and providing the necessary infrastructure for people to be able to make their share of the American dream and occasionally having to regulate some industries. But something had to be done when 60,000 people were overdosing and dying every year. That is more soldiers that was killed in Vietnam. And the only reason most of them were dying of OD's is because of the physicians that were over prescribing for far too long and then abuptly stopping the opiates all at once. And I can say that if you don't have a tremendous burning desire to stop and help to wean off the medications, I have no doubt why so many people turned to a cheaper and easier drug to get, heroin. And all the while, the Sachler family that owns Purdue Pharma, the makers of oxycontin, they sold that med to physicians as a safe and less addictive alternative to other opiate pain medication knowing all the time how unbelievably addictive it actually was and extremely dangerous. And each member of that family is a multibillionaire. And the tobacco industry settled a class action law suit for several hundreds of million dollars and the Sachler family is trying to settle their class action law suit for far much less and none of them are ever going to be prosecuted criminally for all the death and destruction done to thousands of families all so they could enrich themselves. And they are responsible for the decimation of entire towns in coal country and the Midwest. So when NAFTA had closed the factories and the Obama administration nearly destroyed the coal industry, they stepped right up and gave these people who were already demoralized from not being able to find a job which causes severe depression, and then they magically was given Obamacare that gave them access to a physician who was more than happy to oblige their pain with the entirety wrong type of medication for the pain that these people were suffering. An opiate may make you temporarily forget the pain of losing all sense of reason and loss of purpose but it will always return when the meds wear off until time for the next dose. If you think that I am making spurious and unfair accusations against the Obama administration, just look at the calendar and do the math. Not everyone fits into this equation but I know that it played a role in my misery. Even though I couldn't even qualify for Obamacare in Georgia, I still was severely depressed at my circumstances and if I didn't have a higher power that is a million times more powerful than pain medication, I have no doubt that I would have been just another statistic. And I have to say that even though I have a legitimate reason to be taking pain medication and I may have to start again very soon, the people who are addicted just because they have an emotional pain instead of a physical pain, there is now more help for people who truly want to stop than I ever remember being available in my lifetime. So I have no doubt that it will be much more difficult to get the medications that I will need to have a decent quality of life, I am really happy that maybe I will not have to go through the mind numbing misery of withdrawals and the humiliation of physicians that would have been better suited to be veterinarians than medical doctors for fellow human beings. Something had to be done to get this under control, but as per norm, whenever the government gets involved in anything, there will be far more unintended consequences created than problems solved. And if the greedy physicians that have no compunction about turning their patients into drug addicts, if they were caught and made an example of, the business of pill mills would be a thing of the past. And then the government could go back to doing what they do best, raising taxes, waging unwinnable wars and over regulating industries that didn't have such a direct impact on a patient and their doctor.

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I think anyone who suffers from chronic pain should be allowed to have and get their prescriptions filled. Suffering is unnecessary!

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What’s the actual domain name?

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Re: Liberty (# 1)

Hope You get WHAT IS coming to YOU, hope YOU GOT WHAT YOU DESERVED!!!

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Re: MeJane (# 241)

Id like to know your definition of a “ bad apple.” If you mean addicted kids well then that would make you one as well, only adult size. Don’t start putting the blame of the addicts when you yourself were or are one. Definition of an addict no matter if back surgery, car accident, experimenting, you all have something in common called DEPENDENCY.
As for this Chinese virus, it is real but much overblown numbers by the democrats. My sisters a nurse my nephew an ER Doctor. They have told me things I cannot repeat because it’s like the twilight zone. There are other alternative medications besides opioids that work just fine. Most doctors will keep you on Percocet forever. And they don’t warn you either. So blame your doctor. I bet your one of those people who actually drive while wearing a mask. Get well soon.

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Re: Supersus61 (# 239)

Now is the time to act & we all must get strong! COVID19 is a horrific curse. Many death’s have occurred; very sad.

However, let’s do a comparison. As the “opiod crisis” as defined by Gov’t immediately, without researching, acknowledging nor considering LEGITIMATE/LONG TERM CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS(CPP’s) who after exhausting all other procedures were given the only alternative in order to basically walk & lead a somewhat normal, productive life;

In my case 32 ago I couldn’t walk via a near fatal car accident, 4 surgeries later & numerous other alternatives, diagnosed with FAILED BACK SYNDROME, SPINAL STENOSIS, & all the rest that goes with a deteriorating spine w/scar tissue crawling like a spider web, 22 yrs ago I was referred to Pain Management through managed doses of opiate Percocet.

It was a miracle! Within a month, I was out of my wheelchair! Walking, living, positive...I got my life back! 22 yrs later BOOM! Along cane as we all know, the revelation of abusers...The bad apple!!

Because of so few “bad apples” vs us CPP’s we are suffering. Way too many CPP’s have even taken their lives; we are back bedridden due to GUIDELINES/RULES In lieu of this fact, Gov’t, FDA, DEA, et al refuse to acknowledge us & the knowledgeable, compassionate PAIN MGMT DOCTOR’s who did their research!

Granted, COVID19 is horrible. Gov’t is paying attention to fix. Why not us? We have a terminal disease which is CHRONIC PHYSICAL PAIN!

In addition, re: the tapering of our meds; have you noticed what we are prescribed the pain medicine has become basically ineffective as if taking a sugar pill? They changed the formulation, altered it less active ingredients & w/filler’s to make you purposely sick to detour use without any TRIAL’s whatsoever!

Heartbreaking. GODSPEED to all with love.

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Bottom line is this now for us legitimate CPPs... Many of us have been tapered. The daily dose we do get if fortunate enough to have a compassionate Doctor, the medicine itself Percocet & all its generic formulations have been purposely altered for strength & added fillers to detour use & effectiveness as if we are taking a sugar pill. You can notice the difference, i.e. withdrawal symptoms after dose, extreme fatigue, zero motivation, no lift of mood/positivity (dopamine inhibitor), abdominal issues!

So weird how after long term use seemingly overnight these effects began once the "opiod crisis" was defined by Gov’t! (Circa 2016 to date...)
It's disgraceful! We are not stupid. They've tricked us all. This has been done secretly without any patient test trials... Think about it. We must stick together & fight back for our lives!

GODSPEED dear ones!

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I’m afraid I won’t be able to function without my medication. It seems no one understands or cares about people who are truly suffering, day in and day out. Once th egg y allow people to get awarded big settlements from big pharmaceutical companies, they halt production of the meds . Of course most Doctors have stopped writing prescriptions for these meds already. I’m afraid if my current Dr . retires I’ll be screwed . I’m raising my grandchildren so I need these meds or I would most likely be unable to walk at all. This world is crazy when it comes to this.

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Re: Charlene (# 237)

Thank you Charlene for this hello and my email prompting me to return. I must say this site is truly an excellent guide to speak and let us say what we like and how we feel. I may have gone off topic I know this. But I’m thankful for responses in understanding my reactions to certain comments made here particularly about pointing fingers at our youth and saying they are “junkies.” Just another road for me to get rid of the stigma. I do speak on addiction, grief, and loss of a child thrown in with faith etc..I can only do this after 5 years. And I agree with what you say I guess I don’t understand the 20-30 years plus of being on pain meds. I mean opioids truly do cause more pain and that is how they addict you. Also I have been to other specialists about my issues with pain and one doctor said “why does your primary only give you half a script of 5 mg Oxycodone of 15 when it clearly states on the bottle take one every morning?” Haha I just agree with him because god forbid I ask for the slightest increase and this is what I understand from these poor people who are in excruciating pain every day. It’s the doctors. And when I went to pain management they wanted me on OxyContin 24 release pills of 120. All I could think of my son and of course I declined and left. They want you to be slaves so we can have websites such as these. The Sackler family who makes OxyContin just filed bankruptcy so they can slap in the face of people they killed, not to pay back the families who have numerous lawsuits against these scum sucking wealthy people. All in all I only take one when I get a severe flare otherwise like you it’s CBD cream for my painful fingers and back. Along with Aleve which will get me before the pain meds. Just to let others know I do believe in the power of prayer and attend Mass frequently. Even the Latin Mass you forget about everything when you pray. That’s just for me and I pray all here and even the ones who didn’t like me I hope they all get cured and have no or minimal pain and get their medications. Although I said I hope you all suffer, I apologize as that was my reaction to saying things about my child when I knew what really happened. None here didn’t. But peace to you all.

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Re: Bella (# 235)

Hi bella, I'm just stopping by to say hello! I enjoy reading your comments. I feel bad about the way pain management doctor, pharmacy's treat patients. I no longer need to take pharmaceutical medicine, I have been trying natural supplements like magnesium and zinc, turmeric, it helps more than you'd think. However my dad is 83 he doesn't have to take any kind of medication. I'm hopeful to follow his path, I layed in bed last night tossing and turning about this supposedly opioid crisis, if there really is one..for everyone who has a great deal of pain, I can't imagine someone getting extremely hurt?, has me wondering what would happen if someone fell a broke bones?, so I'm just babbling about whatever, I just wanted to say HI, BELLA

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Re: Vintage Lady (# 175)

Hello, vintage lady, I'm not sure what you're asking me...I'm not sure why you can't get your pain medication?...I have to wonder though? Could it be the state you live in? I'm in southwest Florida, my son visits a pain management doctor. The same one I used to visit years ago, he doesn't prescribe like he used to but he still helps out with pain..three lortab 10s a day, or three percocet 10s, when I had a visit with him last June he started me out on 3 percocet 10s, he said quietly that's all I can give, then the next visit with him I mentioned I had to take a 4th one a few days..so he just increased the next script to that, the visits are every 3 months and he does do a u/a around every 6 months or so, I truly believe every state must be different, idk...but these doctors went to school and paid a lot of money for school, only to end up being afraid to treat patients the way they were told to....I read so many sad stories about people in so much pain...I'm hopeful for change. But if it happens...it's a long way off...I also wonder what some big shots with money, does there family members get treatment? It would be very interesting to know.

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Re: Focked (# 234)

I thought you were a man. Because you said Vietnam war but stupid me reread it. Glad you’re a woman and I just wanted to tell you be careful hoping the storm goes past you. I lived in Florida many years ago. Not for me now but it’s great. There were many pain doctors in Florida, not legitimate ones who were arrested over the years, seems Florida had a lot... this is why I feel sorry for the addicted. The doctors put profit above you and that’s that. I asked my primary for at least 30 taken once in morning each day then she says “see you want to go up.” I couldn’t believe it. You know I never did drugs until I was diagnosed with RA and other ailments. And I am in my 60’s. You’d think these doctors would understand it’s no joke to live in pain. She thinks I had pain from losing my child until the MRI and bloodwork showed this. Just awful how they don’t seem to take you serious. Wonder what they do when they are in pain? I guess I deal with it because of the loss. I could care less if I woke up tomorrow. It’s just grief. Anyway writing this in parking lot just came from Church which comforts me. Realizing it’s getting harder to kneel each time.. just wanted to come on and say hope you’re okay and the State is okay as well they just said category 5.

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Re: Bella (# 232)

I'm glad to see that you have felt comfortable enough to come back a few times now. I have seen nothing more of the people that were so hurtful to you and I am so glad of that! I enjoy chatting with you! I don't think I would be here today if it were not for faith and the love of Jesus. I live in South Florida and I have been praying he keeps everyone including me safe from this horrible storm that can't seem to make up its mind where it wants to go and is moving at a snail's pace. Besides it's 150 mile an hour winds, it could dump up to two feet of rain all up and down the east coast of Florida and could very likely impact other states as well! I have registered with the department health so if there is an evacuation they will send me somewhere where I will at least have a cot. I could not imagine having to sleep on the floor I remember reading that. we're also a chronic pain patients. I also do not understand why a doctor would givee you only 15 (5 mg. pills) like you said that allows you only one tablet every other day! It seems like you are right everyone looks at us like we did something wrong when in fact the medical profession caused these problems! It seems that quite a few where using opioids as a profitable business instead of being vigilant with who they prescribed to! As you know, the tides have now turned and we are lucky if we can find someone to prescribe what we really need! I continue to pray that things get better for the sake of everyone who is suffering from pain including myself! I am afraid it could take a very long time however if ever! Well I better go so I can grab a few things from the store in case I am evacuated I will have a few snacks to go with me!
I hope to talk to you again! Sincerely Patty.

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This makesme sick stop using the race card and what in Gods holy name does any of this racist. We are suffering badly and doctors are really being nasty to us. The same doctors that started us on our pain medications to begin with and our now treating us like we did it ourselfs. I have been abused badly by the pain management place as if I got the drugs myself. It is sick how they treat us then have no compassion for us. We are going to suffer for along time. We now our the bad guys. I hate the race card being used, remember it is about our pain and they need to feel our pain problems and will. We need to ask God to make them miserable Noone cares, black or white or in between. So stop the race card it is useless and wasting time. It makes me sick. It is about all of us who truly need pain medications in order to have any sort of life. Screw the pot crap and oils and every other natural crap they throw at us. I have spent thousands. Do you really care about the side effects when we can't even get out of bed. Sorry I have watched many many people live long lifes with their pain in check and at least have quality of life. My pain is killing my heart, my blood pressure is so bad. I have proven time and time again that when they releave my pain everything levels out, but know instead pump me full of a lot of other drugs having nothing to do with my pain and then they sit around trying to figure out why myblood pressure is so bad. I take so many medicines for this it is unreal and it never helps, I keep blacking out and breaking bones. Just Had major surgery on my spine they gave me one pain pill every six ours. I will never have surgery again. I will just let my horrible blood pressure as they say, your are either going to have a major stroke or heart attack. They really have taken my life away, I now at 62 have a DNR on me because what is the use. Yes it is sad. So stop talking about race it makes me sick. When we start to die we are going to have horrible deaths and a lot of suffering. Lets drop the race card and remember we are all in it together. ONLY IF YOU ARE RICH DO YOU GET GOOD CARE, WE HAVE NO HELP UNLESS WE FIGHT THE HELL OUT OF THEM

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Re: Focked (# 231)

My ex husband is a Vietnam vet. I’m ten years younger. He’s also a retired firefighter. I do have another son and two grandchildren but I pretend when I see them all and hardly do. That person Mare imagine saying time to let go? Whether she knew it was my son or not just proves how much they do not know about addiction and death of a child. I am happy my President is building the wall, in fact, I’d like to help him. I’ve been in talks with DA, AG, etc...fact it came from there. If I were a millionaire I’d sue for allowing it to come over. That being said, thank you for your service Focked...because Freedom is never free. So to change the subject just yesterday I went to my Rheumatologist and he asked me why does your primary only give you 15 5 mg OXY? That’s half a script. I said I don’t know I guess I’ll take one when I get a flare. But I get a flare every day and can’t say this. So I asked what is it with doctors who don’t want to give out pain meds to legit pain patients? He said Big Pharma cracked down because of BAD DOCTORS who were giving them out to just about anyone FOR PROFIT. And now doctors are afraid of malpractice. And this is coming from an older very respected guy who was being honest to me a senior. He then added a 4% lidocaine patches... they literally don’t work or make me nauseous. I don’t have the answers that’s why they blow you off to pain clinics so they are out of the situation. I do feel bad for people myself included but I’m also a woman of great faith. Prayer helps. And for those who think well prayer didn’t help your son well, I believe he is relieved of his earthly sufferings (it took 5 years to think this way) and God does not take us. Death takes us but Christ rescues us from death. He was my best friend and wanted help, it’s a broken system where just 5 days u can check yourself out? SUBOXONE is another nightmare. Legal way of keeping you high for $$$ out of pocket. Anyway thank you. Sorry for the rant. Grief is just love that’s all bottled up with nowhere to go. Hope you feel better.

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Re: Bella (# 230)

I absolutely understand Bella! Sometimes we do things that later we wish we had not because we were trying to protect ourselves in the only way we know how! I am glad you were able to say this was your geeky, inteligent, smart loving son! You did what you did because others where chastising you and your son because of a disease he had! No one would ever think about doing that except when it comes addiction, both alcohol and drugs! I cannot tell you how sorry I am about that and I pray to God that we can remove the stigma that comes with these diseases !

I grew up in the sixties and remember the Vietnam War as being the tragedy of our times! But how could it be we have lost more people to overdose that's then all the lives that were lost in the Vietnam War?
Worse than that, this disease is showing no signs of slowing down!

Truly I wish I had an answer but I don't! The one thing that I do know is; today your mother your brother your child, your loved one could be alive and tomarrow you could get that shredded call telling you they are gone!

Be kind to everybody people it is the least that we can do!

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Re: Focked (# 228)

Yes my email prompted me again and I was afraid to look but I see you understand my pain more so after your own loss. I’m so sorry. My cousin also passed long ago from alcohol and he worked and played guitar... for some reason some not all blame a parent for the overdose death or any death associated with addiction. I share my story and my speech about grief and the stigma of addiction is next month to 25 couples who this has happened too. So I only hid it on this site because people were suffering. But then they got hateful and I had to blurt out my nephew because I could not bare the sting of anyone speaking bad about my child. I do speak at churches and schools because what the hell I'm gonna suffer anyway may as well try and help others. Addiction is a disease the AMA said so in 1962 I would not lie about that. I saw how it became one. My son was a smart handsome nerdy type of kid. I have heard other parents I meet at the cemetery as I never missed a day in 5 years, that their kid started with mostly pills on the street then went to Heroin. My son never did needles he was afraid of them go figure. Anyway sorry for the rant but The Fentanyl is coming from China over the Mexican border, as there was just a sudden bust from there. Chronic pain sufferers are having a major problem but it’s nothing to do with kids that are addicted. If your an adult with a definitive diagnosis that causes chronic pain, you should be able to get pain meds. If not it’s your doctors fault. They are afraid of malpractice, they don’t no who is telling the truth or not. I’ve heard it all. Doctors do not give out Heroin or Fentanyl. We have a Heroin crisis with needles. The opioid excuse is simply that... just today Johnson&Johnson has to pay out $575 million dollars for drug rehabs etc... I do hope people on here research instead of pointing their finger at a kid who is stuck yet cannot get out no matter how hard we tried. I would of died for him.

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Re: methadonehater (# 223)

Too late. Petition site is closed. It’s a done deal.

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