I'm writing in regard to the opioid crisis and its effects on our medical system. My wife was diagnosed last July with cancer and underwent radiation and chemo-therapy. Subsequently, due to tissue damage from the radiation, she developed a fistula, an infection that went un-diagnosed for six weeks, was nearly fatal and has left her in excruciating pain for three months now. It is acknowledged to be one of the most painful conditions known to medicine. Yet, due to hysterical and irrational pressure on doctors from insurance companies and government we have had a terrible time trying to get effective pain medication.
Opiate drugs have been around for thousands of years. Every educated adult is aware of their drawbacks and yet still there are no more effective medicines for the worst kind of pain. Now, due to opiate hysteria, responsible adults with cancer are treated like drug fiends out trolling the streets for a fix . We are in the ludicrous position of highly trained doctors being dictated to by ignorant bureaucrats what pain medication they can prescribe, and how much.
If we can't trust doctors to administer medication who can we trust. ignorant bureaucrats with nothing better to do to justify their parasitical salaries? This is all just more evidence, if any was needed, that America under Donald Trump is descending into previously undreamed of depths of corruption, stupidity and evil. All of this must end, all of it, or it will be the end of us all.
Brent Hightower
