The purpose of this website is to increase knowledge about the opioid problem, and to support people in writing letters to influence lawmakers to close the opioid loophole with appropriate legislation.

 

Thank you in advance for helping. Together we can make a difference. Please help us all and send your government representative a note or an email to help fix the opioid crisis and close the loophole.

 

Did you know that more than ½ of the new opioid habituations are easily preventable. More than ½ of new opioid users are exposed and addicted from the extra pain pills in the family medicine cabinet. Let’s close the loophole and get rid of the extra pills in the cabinet.

 

Did you know that it only takes a few days of exposure for susceptible people to become addicted to opioids. Let’s close the loophole and avoid exposure to our families and friends. 

 

Our Not So Nice Pain Pills History

Like any other profession, the knowledge base of medicine is improving and changing over time. Unfortunately, pain used to be considered a vital sign like temperature. There was even a time when some federal groups, some older doctors and some drug companies caused a great increase in the use of opioids. My dad who is a physician told me there was a time in the not too distant past when doctors were threatened with being sued or lose their hospital admitting privileges if they did not prescribe a lot of pain pills.

 

Many factors may have influenced the increase in doctors prescribing opioids more frequently, but what is clear is the government, senior physicians and drug companies were the leaders in getting our country into this opioid mess, and people are dying because of it. In addition to leading us into this crisis, these same 3 groups wrote a loophole into the Federal law so that the problem will never go away without changing the law!

 

It is mostly young people who are dying and going to jail because of addiction. (See extra reading tab). It is up to us, the young generation to get involved to help solve this problem for ourselves and future generations. The older generation physicians and the government owe us (the young generation) their support to close the loophole and to clean up the opioid mess. Working together, we can close the loophole and start to clean up the opioid mess for ourselves and for future generations.

 

Please write your government representative and ask them to “close the loophole”

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See GOV tab for some Springfield area government representative email contacts.

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