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PAIN RALLY &
PRESS CONFERENCE
- Support efforts to pass a Mississippi Chronic Pain Treatment Act
- Support Mississippi physicians who treat chronic pain patients
- Voice concerns about the devastating actions of the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure toward physicians who treat chronic pain
Thursday, May 1, 2003, 12noon
State Capitol
Jackson, Mississippi
For More Information Contact:
MISSISSIPPI COALITION FOR PATIENT RIGHTS
& CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT
Virginia Brooks, President
662-334-6204 775-640-0875 Fax
e-mail:
AMERICAN PAIN INSTITUTE, Mississippi Chapter
Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D., President
662-247-1471 662-247-1384 Fax
e-mail:
www.ARPainCoalition.com
Chronic Pain Treatment Act
Advocated for Mississippi
(Jackson, Mississippi) - The Mississippi Coalition For Patient Rights and Chronic Pain Management and the American Pain Institute, Mississippi Chapter will be hosting a Pain Rally and Press Conference this week to launch a statewide campaign for the passage of a Mississippi Chronic Pain Treatment Act.
"Thousands of Mississippi citizens suffer needlessly from chronic, intractable pain," states Virginia Brooks, President of the Mississippi Coalition For Patient Rights and Chronic Pain Management and a chronic pain patient. "Many people have chosen suicide over living in constant pain. Mississippi should join 14 other states, including Arkansas and Tennessee, in the passage of a Mississippi Chronic Pain Treatment Act."
"Physicians in Mississippi are afraid to prescribe appropriate medication to treat our chronic pain condition because they fear repercussions from the Mississippi State Medical Board," states Brooks. "There are no pain management specialists on the medical board. We must have a chronic pain treatment act to protect our doctors and allow them to treat us with the best that modern medicine has to offer."
"Physicians who treat chronic pain patients have had their medical license and DEA certificates revoked by the Mississippi State Medical Board," states Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D., Founder & President of the American Pain Institute, Mississippi Chapter, Baptist Medical Missionary and Family Practice physician in Tchula, Belzoni and Greenville, MS. "Adequate medication is available to treat patients in chronic pain, Many of them could then return to work and lead productive lives. The actions of the Mississippi State Medical Board are inexcusable and irresponsible!'"
The Pain Rally and Press Conference will be held Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 12noon, on the steps of the South side of the State Capitol and the first floor Rotunda, in Jackson, Mississippi. For more information contact Virginia Brroks at 662-334-6204; e-mail: or Dr. Myers at 662-247-1471; e-mail: web sites: www.ARPainCoalition.com.
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needinfo
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Legislation will have to, unfortunately, wait until the next session which begins in January, 2004, unless the Governor calls a special session which seems unlikely given the current fiscal situation.
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toky20
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I think it would be great if everyone who could turn out actually does turn out. It's easy to complain and moan about what's not being done for the pain patient--but we need to remember that if we want our lives to be better, then we need do something about it. We need to write letters, we need to educate our doctors, nurses, physical therapists, we need to get to these rallies and make ourselves heard.
Can you imagine a gathering of a lot of pain patients who are undermedicated and standing at a rally? lol... I would not want to be a 'peace officer' at that rally.
Thanks for the news, DB!
Toky
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needinfo
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Report in the Memphis Commercial Appeal regarding the Mississippi Pain Rally:
Doctors ask pain treatment leniency
By Emily Wagster Pettus, The Associated Press
May 2, 2003
JACKSON - Physicians who treat chronic pain patients are often scared to prescribe drugs because they don't want to be punished by the state, says Dr. Ronald Myers of Belzoni.
At the Capitol Thursday, Myers said the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure has been "insensitive" to doctors and patients who live with constant backaches, headaches or other maladies.
"It has created a fear factor across the state," Myers said.
Dr. Joe Burnett, executive director of the state licensure board, said physicians have no reason to fear that their licenses will be suspended or revoked if they are properly treating chronic-pain patients.
The treatment often includes prescribing narcotics such as Dilaudid, a painkiller similar to morphine.
Burnett said doctors should conduct regular physicals of the patients, keep strict records of prescriptions and refills, and provide appropriate medical consultations, including referring patients to other specialists when needed.
Burnett said he has met with pain specialists and has told them to be "liberal" in prescribing drugs for patients who truly need them.
But "we don't want drugs being diverted to the street," Burnett said.
Myers and about a dozen pain patients and their relatives gathered on the Capitol steps Thursday to call for changes in the way Mississippi deals with pain doctors.
Myers said he would ask the 2004 Legislature to adopt a law similar to one enacted recently in Arkansas, giving physicians greater leeway to prescribe drugs for chronic pain without fear of losing their licenses.
Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure records show that in the year running July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001, the board disciplined 17 doctors, two for prescription violations.
The next year, the board disciplined 19 doctors, four for prescription violations.
Victoria Brooks of Greenville said she has lived with constant pain since she was 17 and fell down a flight of stairs at work. She's 43 now.
Brooks said she has suffered other injuries in car wrecks, and some doctors treat her with suspicion or indifference when she tells them about her chronic pain.
She said some chronic pain sufferers need several prescriptions.
"Why can't we get the pain medication we need instead of being treated like junkies or drug dealers?" she said.
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Jeremiah
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Quote:
"Why can't we get the pain medication we need instead of being treated like junkies or drug dealers?" she said.
Now here's a good slogan for a T-shirt and bumper sticker.
Help get the word out to John Q. Public.
J.
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