DrugBuyers.Com: Richard Paey gets 25 years.

I don't understand this part. Does it mean prescriptions from a pad? Like using numerous prescriptions without a date on them? What exactly is the form they are taking about. Did the doctor have to write the prescription first, but not date them and gave the patient a bunch of scripts? I'm confused. It also said the doctor denies this. This being not giving him (Paey) permission to use the "forms"

I sure hate to see this guy suffer, and to do so in jail is just horrible. I wouldn't want to spend one day in jail, never mind the mandatory 25years. I would have taken ALL my pills before they took me in. In fact, I would rather die then to be in jail. I'm so scared that this could happen to me, not that I have "forms" from a doctor, but I use OPs.

I have told my family and my therapist that I am using OPs and they are happy that I found a way to help my pain, and know I am not using the pills to get high, nor am I selling them. My therapist knows how much I am taking, and wishes an OP had the means to prescribe better narcotics for long term chronic pain. Hydrocodone is short acting, and you build a tolerance when used on a regular basis, like I do. I need them. But, he (my therapist) has now referred me to a pain doctor, but I don't know if I'll be able to afford the treatment, but I'm going to try. It won't hurt to hear what he has in mind regarding my treatment, and hopefully I will not have to depend on OPs for control of my pain.

I am able to function for the first time in 10 years since going the OP route over a year ago. But, like I said, my tolerance is up there and they are not as effective. I hate having to count my pills to see if I'm going to have enough at the end of the month because of a few bad days that I had to take one or two more than prescribed on a couple of days because the pain was so bad.

Sorry for rambling, but this "war on drugs" is really scaring me, as I can now function like a normal person because of OPs. Yet, They can only do so much; like prescribe short acting pain meds, as apposed to longer acting meds like methadone. (this is what my therapist thinks I should be on. He's also been head of a pain clinic in psychotherapy.) So he knows his stuff. And he is really disgusted at the Federal laws, and the attitude of doctors who are afraid to treat chronic pain.

Okay, I'm done rambling and sorry for going off topic, if I have.

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Dee