Dr. Sechrest, M.D.- Prescribing pain meds and the Drug War.

Dr. Randale Sechrest, Director, Spine and Pain Center at St. Pat's Hospital, Missoula, Montana outlines current health care crisis relating to lack of access to mental and substance counseling/treatment, how and why doctors are leary of treating chronic pain patients, etc. At the Montana ACLU annual meeting, March 1, 2008. "Pain as a Civil Liberties Issue: how the "Drug Way" affects Doctors, Patients, and YOU." America's drug war is interfering with the practice of medicine.

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[jsteck1956]

I agree with this doctor. As someone who has suffered with daily severe chronic pain for the past thirty years plus I know what it is to live this life. If I did not have opiates to treat this pain I would not live long. Recently do to new laws in Texas regarding the doctors who can write these types of prescriptions I have been forced to travel to California to get needed medications. This is a horrible new law in Texas, and I wonder how many poor Texans will die do to this new law.