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Reply to "Whence pain meds post law change?"

I'm in Oregon, and I know that many Washington State residents cross the border and come to Portland to see pain specialists.

From what I've been told by one disgruntled 'Couverite, the bureaucrats in Washington State think they know better than you AND your doctors, and act as physicians by proxy. (Tying the hands of health professionals so they are corralled into doing things a certain way.)

If you're up to a trip to Portland once a month, you might find things down here more reasonable. For the time being, anyway. Oregon recently changed from a part-time legislature meeting every other year for just a few months to meeting every year. We can probably expect an avalanche of laws as they dream up ways to protect us stooooopid citizens from ourselves and our doctors.

Don't give up on your hippie pain doctors, though. They MIGHT come around and realize that you are not addict and that you truly need narcotic pain medication. The question will be, will the government allow them to do their job?

Another option is seeking out an anesthesia group, rather than a clinic that specializes in passing out methadone to heroin addicts and whose waiting rooms are filled with neck brace - sporting lawyer referrals. Many anesthesiologists are also pain specialists, and are perhaps less jaded.

OK... so now that I have libeled legislators, lawyers, doctors, hippies, and the entire state of Washington, I think my job is done here. (plus it's the middle of the night, I'm half asleep, and God only knows what the hell I'm typing).



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