I am so angry right now it's hard to post. I have felt this pressure for years now. It's why I spent many years without meds and in pain. They want you to admit you're doing something wrong. I am sick of it. I have such anger right now...why isn't MR. STUMBO working on making meds more available to pain patients so everyone knows how everyone is doing? Because that means taking on the health care system, and like or dislike Hilary Clinton, no one will ever forget the way the industry wheeled out the big guns...
Do you all realize what they want?
They want you to stop washing yourself.
To stop feeding your kids.
They want you to live in a filthy abandoned apartment, and not notice the stink.
They want you to be willing to sell yourself, man or woman, for any small fix.
They want you to steal.

They want you to go furtively, glancing around to a doctor who is not trying to help, maybe, but is so crooked that of course you know why he is there, so you can be punished by junkie withdrawals when they swoop down and remove this cancerous blight of an office from an other wise healthy community.
THEY WANT TO SEE US CRY.
They want to know who is us and and who is them.
They want to drink their Scotch on the golf course, and feel drug-free.
Meanwhile a whole new generation of soldier, especially concentrated in the poorer areas of the USA, where "joining up" was the only way to get married, go to school, have a job, that generation is limping home. I can't wait to see Stumbo and his ilk do the tap dance of supporting our troops and telling young/men/women that they don't need meds.

Sorry guys. True, I allowed it to, many days,
BUT PAIN WRECKED MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I lost opportunities because of my pain.
I aged because of my pain
I lost my goodness of character before I learned to struggle and get it back because of pain.
I was RAPED, sexually, because of pain. Without the pain, I would not have been in the place where I was raped.
End of story.

So y'all excuse me if I am just a little more bitter than I come across, and Mr. Stumbo, I hope you are sent to Hades and when burning, told to be positive and think of something else.