This Couple Died by Suicide After the DEA Shut Down Their Pain Doctor

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12. My husband has chronic pain in his elbows, lower arms, and hands. He is 76 years old.

We lived in Oregon and went through hell getting him very low dose (5mg every eight to ten hours) oxycodone script each month and often he had to go several days after a prescription ran out to get another LEGAL prescription filled. We moved to Montana 3 years ago and he has not been able to get his medication. His hands are so bad he sometimes can't pick up a fork. His elbows ache all night long. He does not drink or smoke or use any other drugs.

Several physicians have told him that they agree that it's ridiculous that an old man in chronic pain can't get anything to ease that pain but their hands are tied by the DEA and the State of Montana. They have given him gabapentin which doesn't relive the pain and just makes him "stupid" and all the doctors (who of course have never had chronic pain) seem to think he should be okay with that and stop complaining. It really is a travesty to have to watch people suffer so much when the cure is so simple. My husband is not an addict and even if he was, he laughingly keeps telling the doctors, I am 76 years old, the pain is killing me. Who cares if I am addicted to a medication that causes no other problems in my life and makes my life bearable.

There is a reason there are lots of old oxy and heroin addicts but not many old serious alcoholics. Low dose Oxy does not destroy the liver or other organs. It does not rot the brain. It is a crime to be left to suffer because a lot of crooked fat cats got rich off addicting people. I am so sick of these Christian Conservatives and their lack of morals.