Chronic Pain Death And Suicide Related To Chronic Intractable Pain
A few CPP (chronic pain patient) pointed out to me these stories and articles should be shared with the CPP community.
Everyone needs to know this side of the "opioid crisis"
Dozens of Mistakes Caused Death of Young Hospital Patient, Court Rules
"Melissa approached her son. â��I went over and I put my hand on his hand and his hand was cold, and then I took off his sunglasses and realized his face was yellow and his lips were blue – and I knew he wasn’t breathing.â�� In the blur that followed, the nurse sounded the Code Blue alarm. Melissa remembers a group of doctors and nurses suddenly running into the room to revive her son."
21/04/2022
Originally posted by Red Lawhern
Woman With 'Worst Pain On Earth' Ends Life After Being 'Turned Away' From Hospital
"Someone was melting the bones inside my legs. Like I'm being burnt alive from head to toe. I was barely sleeping, spending most of my days inside on a couch or bed," she said in her online blog, according to an earlier report by The Age."
https://www.ibtimes.com/woman-worst-pain-earth-ends-life-after-being-turned-away-hospital-3478302?fbclid=IwAR1FXqMLEYiKD57JHoMzqTiu6wuiMoc3l-Y9WbTR0xGphLbRGWz6ETm9mDs
Woman With 'Worst Pain On Earth' Ends Life After Being 'Turned Away' From Hospital The 37-year-old who suffered a rare neurological condition that left her in excruciating pain took her own life after she was reportedly turned away from the hospital when she sought help for mental health troubles.
Todd Eckard
I just lost my pain management Dr because apparently he was being a du***ss. So I'm 2 weeks away from absolute misery which will probably end with a bullet. I'm so sick of trying to find adequate care. I'm so tired of being miserable and I've been one of the luckier CPP's for the past few years. I did WANT to be dead but I'm tired of being treated worse than we treat animals!
ADMIN NOTE - MAGGIE GALYEAN
It is with deep sadness that one of ours, Maggie Galyean, a member of the group since June 2015, and one of the Group Admins, has passed away.
We do not have much information at this stage. We do know that very recently she was admitted for pneumonia.
She was kind, helpful, cared about others, and someone who offered a shoulder to lean on when needed.
R.I.P. Maggie.
Our thoughts are with her family, friends, and loved ones.
26/01/2022
Sudden, Unexpected Death in Chronic Pain Patients PPM Editor in Chief-authored article about sudden, unexpected death in patients with chronic pain.
Originally posted by Dan Barid
It’s with a heavy heart that I’m making everyone aware of the passing of Joan Kennedy yesterday.
Joan and her partner Garry, were always referred to by Dan as the original UK Satellite’s fans.
They were fixtures at most Sats and HMS Newcastle shows.
Neither of them indulged in Social Media but anyone who was a regular at Newcastle shows would be aware of them, although maybe more by sight than name.
This is a non Covid death, Joan had suffered with her health over the years.
RIP Joan.
A CPP Warrior and strong voice for our community has passed. Lisa Pray will never be forgotten. This group would like to extend our condolences to the pain community and her family. We have another pain angel watching over our plight. Members please place your condolences in the comments. 🙏💖
13/01/2022
Originally posted by Red Lawhern
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3992659
Credit for Discovery to Dr Chad Kollas
Physician Liability for Su***de after Negligent Tapering of Opioids To dissipate the opioid crisis physicians have been urged not to prescribe opioids for new patients and to limit opioids prescribed for established patients. Th
11/12/2021
Originally posted by Mary Bennett
Pain med prescriptions did not cause opioid epidemic, courts rule
“One person, Andrew Kolodny, who is a psychiatrist with no formal postgraduate training and pain management is an expert witness for again, Oklahoma case against Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals. His expert witness fee for that case reportedly is $500,000, so it’s pretty good work if you can get it,” Laird said.
https://www.mysterywire.com/top-stories/pain-meds-not-root-cause-of-opioid-epidemic-courts-rule/?fbclid=IwAR1UFk7qcvNG61TB1lvEbjIWIoc2FfjXiPkJ2F_fjiy8CunIF4rOFXBZbYw
Pain med prescriptions did not cause opioid epidemic, courts rule LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Five years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiated a crackdown on opioid pain medications, experts have concluded the policy has been a miserable fai…
09/12/2021
Originally posted by Carol Benack
Man Dies in Parking Lot After Hospital Refuses to Treat Him, Says His Widow
"According to Sadie, David had been experiencing extreme chest pain the first week of January. She took him to the Barnes-Jewish Hospital emergency room twice that week, but she says the medical staff didn't admit him to the hospital. David was prescribed Ibuprofen and they were sent home, Sadie said."
https://www.health.com/syndication/man-dies-in-parking-lot-after-hospital-refuses-to-treat-him-says-family?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_content=20211206&fbclid=IwAR1R8tuYq0g_IHB_J2fp2sb1OTRzHGPVDsYU33P7g_H6Tzs1fQEN6_030zE
Man Dies in Parking Lot After Hospital Refuses to Treat Him, Says His Widow David Alexander Bell, 39, died earlier this month after suffering from chest pain, his wife Sadie said.
Phillip Kuykendall from Statesville, North Carolina was a 63 year old man, an active member of society and hobbyist whose doctor refused to prescribe medication for his pain disease. After a stay in a hospital near Statesville where he went to have his pain disease assessed, he was discharged with no pain medicine. His brother, who was involved with helping him obtain pain control, went to Phillip’s home on December 29, 2016 and found Phillip dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his head. “He took the last, and only, relief he thought he had left,” said a person familiar with the situation.
Link to obituary:
Obituary for Phillip "PhilP Reynolds Kuykendall | Nicholson Funeral Home, Statesville, NC Phillip Reynolds Kuydendall, 63, of Statesville, passed away Thursday, December 29, 2016 at his residence. He was born on September 28, 1953 in Iredell County to the late J. Earl and Estelle Reynolds Kuykendall. Phil was a graduate of Statesville Senior High School and then...
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JR
My dad was a chronically I'll patient. He was 75 and underwent multiple back surgery's and nerve decompression along w recently broken hip and spine. He fought like hell to live but his family doctor told him due to the FDA guidelines his pain meds had to be controlled by a pain doctor. After months of waiting to get into a pain doctor he was able to get his medicine but the following visit his doctor cut him down to a 1/4 of his dosage, he was not cut down slowly. My dad suffered, he went back to see doctor the following week and doctor was only interested in giving pain shots which don't work for my dad due to scar tissue. Doctor refused to up my dad's pain meds even tho he told them he was suffering.
5 days after that visit my dad committed suiside. I blame the doctor as well as whoever decided to play God and not allow proper dosages of pain meds to chronically sick people.
21/11/2021
7 million awarded to family of man who killed himself after pain medication denied.
https://www.wdrb.com/news/7-million-awarded-to-family-of-man-who-killed-himself-after-pain-medication-denied/article_92db6b14-09c0-11ec-b39b-7b711a46b1c7.html?fbclid=IwAR30raxunzVzULS2hO1vvB6umh_AGGV_BPV2-kK3O6rUbZiVGJvNIJRpf3g
$7 million awarded to family of man who killed himself after pain medication denied A lawsuit blamed a man's su***de on a St. Matthews pain clinic, and a jury agrees.
Posted by Elizabeth Patterson
In recent weeks, I’ve covered two heavy topics — su***de in Oregon and opioid prescribing guidelines that have provoked outrage from pain patients.
An email I received in response to one of the stories brought those two threads together in an intense way.
I heard from Larry Gordon, who identified himself as a life-long Oregonian, a resident of Turner in Marion County. He and his wife Wendy have been married for 41 years. The two are in their early 60s.
Larry's note landed after a blog I wrote about a statewide media reporting project called “Breaking the Silence,” which aimed to raise awareness about the su***de crisis and how it can be prevented.
“I recently read the media will be doing a weeklong story on su***des called 'Breaking the Silence,' as su***de has become a public health crisis,” Larry wrote. “My wife and I recently came very close to committing su***de, not for reasons most people would expect and completely preventable.”
The situation he went on to describe and that both Gordolns conveyed in a follow-up phone interview was directly related to the effort by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to control the opioid epidemic with prescribing guidelines for physicians.
Larry considers Wendy and himself as "collateral damage" of the policy. He's found dozens of examples of people in the same situation.
Ironically, one of the authors of the CDC’s guidelines, a professor at OHSU, would likely strongly agree. Dr. Roger Chou said in an interview just last week that doctors have taken that guidance too far.
“People are taking actions based on something they say the agency put out, but it’s a misinterpretation or overzealous application of it," Chou said.
10/11/2021
https://themighty.com/2018/06/su***de-dont-want-to-die-just-want-to-pain-to-stop/
People Who Are Suicidal Don't Want to Die, They Just Want the Pain to Stop "I know this is an extremely sensitive topic, but it is one that needs to be discussed."
My Wendy Gordon
She has taken opioids to help manage chronic pain for more than a decade. Her journey into the world of pain management began about 30 years ago. At the time, she was a healthy, athletic mother of two. Then in late 1989, she embarked on a series of MRIs, spinal taps, medications, doctor appointments, two failed neck surgeries, a multiple sclerosis diagnosis and spinal cord lesion at the base of her brain.
By 2000, Wendy could no longer work, and two years later, she went on disability and suffered from depression.
“A once strong, proud wife and mother was reduced to a fragile, painful shell of her former self,” said Larry, who is a retired U.S. Postal Service worker.
Wendy tried nerve blocks, yoga, pool therapy, steroids, acupuncture, meditation and antidepressants. Nothing helped.
Eventually, she saw a pain specialist who prescribed methadone, which made the pain manageable. For the next 12 years, Wendy functioned pretty well.
That all changed in 2016, when the CDC published Chou et al's guidelines urging prescribers to “start low and go slow” and monitor patients on high doses closely, with individualized taper plans, when appropriate. By then, the magnitude of the opioid epidemic was clear, and doctors were taking a lot of heat for years of over-prescribing.
Wendy’s primary care doctor of decades, “the one who knew her situation intimately,” Larry said, cut off her painkillers, citing a new clinic policy and the CDC guidelines.
“He told her he didn’t think he should be her doctor,” Larry said. “We were stunned as he explained, even though, in his medical opinion, opioid taper would cause potential harm and he was totally against it, he felt he had no choice in the matter.” (That clinic did not respond to a request for comment.)
An anesthesiologist subsequently “force-tapered her against her will off all methadone,” Larry said. She had been on a 90 “morphine equivalent” dose, which the guidelines suggested is a dangerous level and many practices took as a firm line.
After suffering through withdrawal post-taper, Wendy’s pain returned. She lost 40 percent of her body weight, barely slept for 14 months and spent her days lying on the floor in tears.kk
The Gordons shared notes from the clinic showing that Wendy went from stable in 2016 to physically diminished in May 2018.
“It got to the point where I was tapered down to nothing, where I couldn’t move, couldn’t get out of bed,” Wendy said. “It was difficult to survive. How much more can you take?”
Said Larry, “There were no more visits to see the grandchildren or to have lunch with them at school, no more going to their games or recitals.”
They searched for months for a new doctor, but a dozen said they were not accepting new patients, especially chronic pain patients. They wrote letters and called “every politician and organization we could think of, always with the same result — sorry, there’s nothing we can do, you can’t fight the government,” Larry said.
“Wendy was done,” he said. “Su***de was our only realistic option.”
Except it wasn’t. Through the Oregon Pain Action Group, the couple found a nurse practitioner in Portland just days before they were going to carry out the plan.
“She was completely disabled; she was distraught,” Carolyn Concia said of Wendy.
Concia has a small independent primary care practice in Portland and has seen many patients like Wendy.
31/08/2021
Originally posted by Kim Miller
"Good news for our cause, but too late for Mr. Slone.
$7 million awarded to family of man who killed himself after pain medication denied"
https://www.wdrb.com/news/7-million-awarded-to-family-of-man-who-killed-himself-after-pain-medication-denied/article_92db6b14-09c0-11ec-b39b-7b711a46b1c7.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwAR1lFNJKFtA3MMVgQJw9SCg1FkaWhN8kfn-EfKmz2zoJpFujEXqkPOq9BOs
$7 million awarded to family of man who killed himself after pain medication denied A lawsuit blamed a man's su***de on a St. Matthews pain clinic, and a jury agrees.
17/08/2021
Fentanyl changes everything': Mount Vernon mom declares war on deadly opioid after son's overdose
"Carol's son, Trey, broke his leg at a skate park in Mount Vernon in 2017. He aggravated the injury months later but his doctor wouldn't prescribe painkillers. Instead, in agonizing pain, Trey turned somewhere else for relief."
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/mount-vernon-mom-declares-war-on-fentanyl-after-sons-overdose/281-3218ff44-bafa-4db9-8bc7-90f167ea6cf5
'Fentanyl changes everything': Mount Vernon mom declares war on deadly opioid after son's overdose Carol's son, Trey, died after taking what he thought was a Percocet but it was actually a counterfeit pill containing a lethal amount of fentanyl.
19/07/2021
This one is older from 2017 and has a bigger punch.
The other side of opioids crisis Fox 8.
https://youtu.be/72Y8YB6OY_U
The Other Side of Opioids LAS VEGAS - Nightly newscasts across the country are filled with stories about the opioid epidemic -- the opioid crisis. Tens of thousands of Americans who d...
19/07/2021
This video is from 2020 fox about CPP and our lives. It is short but has a punch.
https://youtu.be/VfdkWoVx9wk
Chronic pain patients fighting for access to meds Living with persistent pain. Tonight, learn why chronic pain patients are turning to legislators for relief.
Originally posted by Cathy Kean
Su***de2duepain since the implementation of the 2016 CDC guidelines many are committing su***de because the very tool , their medications that kept them functional, living somewhat a sense of quality life... has changed the life of so many as they have been been tapered or taken from them!
Chronic pain is not a myth, is not a condition to be taken lightly as, you suffer with torturous, horrific incredible amounts of pain that unless you walk or Journey you have no clue how
the much it affects your psyche your soul your self worth and physically and ways that you could only describe as pure hell...
Ultimately, if not controlled your organs and body start to shut down or the pain becomes too much it is beyond possible 2 handle without medicating!
As a chronic pain patient we only have 3 options...
#1 the guidelines get rescinded, safety measures be put in place and patient received the necessary medication to sustain life!
#2 we go to the streets for illegal drugs, because pain is not in our heads it's in our bodies! It must be controlled many will resort to illegal drugs such as he**in and pills later found out to be laced illicit fentanyl...
Many will become addicted to he**in and OD
or need to seek treatment for addiction!
#3 su***de due to the phenomenal unrelentless, never ending, horrendous pain!
Please help get exposure and justice for chronic pain patience as you are just one car accident away some living in pure hell like we do! The government should not be playing God with our life or doctor! Justice for chronic pain patients!
19/06/2021
Originally posted by Pharmacist Steve.
Another PAIN WARRIOR SU***DE: Heidi Ferrer, ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Wasteland’ Writer, Dies at 50.
http://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=36381&fbclid=IwAR3ZkeJdPptXX4h0scNOIngaEy1XLENF6oa1FjxY6nABXi35oYNn3yvov34
Another PAIN WARRIOR SU***DE: Heidi Ferrer, ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Wasteland’ Writer, Dies at 50 Another PAIN WARRIOR SU***DE: Heidi Ferrer, ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Wasteland’ Writer, Dies at 50 Heidi Ferrer, a television and film writer known for her work on “Dawson’s Creek” and “Wasteland,” di…
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Why is it when my emotions get unregulated I don’t want to live, I just dont care to be on this earth. I punch myself in my head, I bash my head into the countertop, I cry for hours up to days, I dont eat, I dont go to the bathroom, I’m just totally lost for quite some time. I do have C-PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, I won’t do any SelfCare for days. One more tid bit….my mama OD’d in 2016 on fentanyl gel patches by eating the gel outta the patches. When she passed it got extremely ugly with my sisters (especially the one that was well to do and could afford lawyers). The entire family quit talking-no one has been in each other’s lives for years now. I literally have zero friends, zero family with the exception of one daughter that’s 26 but doesn’t include me in her life on a regular so those visits are few and far between due to I’m zero income trying to fight for my disability/SSI I’ve talked with her to let her know I need her to make the 40 minute trip to me……that talk didn’t help.
Comments, advice or positive support would be welcomed, thank you 😊
28/05/2021
'Su***de is always an option for us': Pain patients beg for more options People with chronic conditions cope with prescription restrictions and limited alternative therapies amid the nation's opioid crackdown.
18/05/2021
Originally posted by Cathy Kean
How chronic pain killed my husband
https://perma.cc/AWA6-42PT?fbclid=IwAR0Zw2y6pMVVQzL6FT7K3luxoOWarA-CXsfG9gK8RVK8eVE8-y8gw6e033g
www.painnewsnetwork.org This is an archive of https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/9/4/how-chronic-pain-killed-my-husband from Tuesday 12, March 2019
17/05/2021
Kevin Keller, a Navy veteran from the USS Independence in the 1980’s was from Virginia. He took his own life at age 52. He shot himself after breaking into the house of his friend, Marty Austin, to take his gun. Austin found a letter left by Keller saying “Marty sorry I broke into your house and took your gun to end the pain!” Keller had experienced a stroke 11 years earlier, and he had worsening pain in the last two years of his life because VA doctors would not give him pain medicine. On the subject of pain medication, Austin said that Keller “was not addicted. He needed it.” The su***de occurred one year after the VA announced the “Opioid Safety Initiative” to stop pain medicines for US veterans, like Kevin Keller. The VA would not comment.
Link to story: http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/veteran-s-su***de-draws-attention-to-veterans-affairs-use-of/article_a07a3527-0f33-5cca-9cb5-a5d198b8f193.html
Veteran's su***de draws attention to Veterans Affairs' use of painkillers BLAND — Nearly everything that Kevin Keller did in his final years bore the mark of constant pain, even the note he left in the end.
Jess Biscut
I went to another pain doctor yesterday, this was number 5, he said he could not help me because I need to find a doctor who is willing to replace the opioid drugs with something called Buprenorphine. He told me that only certain doctors could prescribe it with a license to dispense it. He referred me to another doctor. I am at the point where I just don’t want t live with this pain any longer! I was in his office for 4 hours, brought all my MRI’s , X-rays, etc! I am going to call Medicare, I am tired of filling out paperwork, sitting for hours to see a pain doctor and then be told he cannot help me! The doctor that gave me these opioids is now telling me that he will no longer prescribe them and his advise was for me to have in-house rehab or medical ma*****na! He gave me a prescription for Xstampza, another opioid! I took it to my pharmacy and it was $2,051.00! I cannot afford it that! I cannot commit myself into a facility, Medicare only pays 80% and this could cost me thousands of dollars! I am on a fixed income! And I really am unfamiliar with the medical ma*****na industry! I live in Illinois so if anyone out there has any advise, please give me a shout out! I can barely get out of bed and dress myself! I am going to my primary doctor to have a blood test for Lupus! If it comes back positive I just don’t want to live like this any longer!
18/04/2021
A father on why he shared a photo of his 4-year-old in agony before she died of cancer Jessica Whelan died of neuroblastoma in November 2016. Now, her father is raising awareness of childhood cancer
18/04/2021
Desperation and death after Seattle Pain Centers close: ‘The whitecoats don’t care’.
2 su***des
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/the-whitecoats-dont-care-one-mans-desperation-and-death-when-pain-clinics-close/?utm_source=facebook
Desperation and death after Seattle Pain Centers close: ‘The whitecoats don’t care’ A 58-year-old former patient of Seattle Pain Centers committed su***de last month, leaving notes claiming he could find no help for his chronic pain after the chain of clinics closed in July following state sanctions.
JR
** **My dad was a chronically I'll patient. He was 75 and underwent multiple back surgery's and nerve decompression along w recently broken hip and spine. He fought like hell to live but his family doctor told him due to the FDA guidelines his pain meds had to be controlled by a pain doctor. After months of waiting to get into a pain doctor he was able to get his medicine but the following visit his doctor cut him down to a 1/4 of his dosage, he was not cut down slowly. My dad suffered, he went back to see doctor the following week and doctor was only interested in giving pain shots which don't work for my dad due to scar tissue. Doctor refused to up my dad's pain meds even tho he told them he was suffering.
5 days after that visit my dad committed suiside. I blame the doctor as well as whoever decided to play God and not allow proper dosages of pain meds to chronically sick people.
12/04/2021
Originally posted by Kelly Lawler
Chronic Mom
https://www.chronicmom.com/2021/03/how-the-opioid-crisis-can-lead-those-with-chronic-pain-to-su***de.html/?fbclid=IwAR3Y9_bTvgNDnt0MKJ1mssZw0wGdtXk_OqbaTBdAWD9IY5SMF3X_IxN0c8s
How the opioid crisis can lead those with chronic pain to su***de - Chronic Mom 1 out of 10 su***des is due to chronic pain, and yet the link between chronic pain, the opioid crisis, and su***de is ignored.
07/04/2021
Why My Stepsons’ Father Killed Himself.
Though I oppose su***de on religious/moral grounds and because of the emotional toll it takes on loved ones, I make an exception for people with unremitting, terrible pain. If that pain could be alleviated by painkilling medicines, and law and/or physicians deny them those medicines, it is they, not the su***de, who are morally guilty."
https://dennisprager.com/column/why-my-stepsons-father-killed-himself/?fbclid=IwAR0vyASk8HHL8rPL7D5BYrIcKd_7E-VFLjveL1w3YwSJv2p985bYktfqb_A
Why My Stepsons' Father Killed Himself - The Dennis Prager Show Last week, my two stepsons’ father, a man who loved life, killed himself. I would like to tell you why. Two years ago, a 62-year-old father of three named Bruce Graham was standing on an ladder, inspecting his roof for a leak, when it slipped out from under him. He landed on top of the […]
03/04/2021
01/04/2021
Originally posted by Mick Erlinger
Veteran's su***de draws attention to Veterans Affairs' use of painkillers
"The medications were the only thing that was helping him, and when they took that away from him, his life just went downhill,” Austin said."I
https://roanoke.com/news/virginia/veterans-su***de-draws-attention-to-veterans-affairs-use-of-painkillers/article_a07a3527-0f33-5cca-9cb5-a5d198b8f193.html?fbclid=IwAR3kqe5UeAdoCa9ic_6VUWONCPVXs_K565Cs_w9MENGUekS0OOvf6H157zg
Veteran's su***de draws attention to Veterans Affairs' use of painkillers BLAND — Nearly everything that Kevin Keller did in his final years bore the mark of constant pain, even the note he left in the end.
Had a fall January 21 2021 fell down 3 steps due to my right knee giving out. Been and issue for many years. Fell hard on my left. I fear the medical system nearly dying in 2018 from medical neglect. I didn’t seek care that night. The next day I visited the aboriginal centre for care and I was told to go to the ER. ER did an X-ray and saw nothing. 5 weeks later an ultrasound of the ligaments was done. My PCl is torn right off. MRI was done at 6 weeks. Meniscus is torn into the root. Pcl avulsion fracture of the tibia ACL is barely hanging on and is deteriorating. Now I’m looking at surgery and I’m absolutely terrified. I deal my medical ptsd (diagnosed). I’m triggered and scared. Last night I dreamt I found and paid a farmer to shoot me behind the barn. I have no family here but I’m lucky enough to have one friend. I’ve been sitting here preparing should this go south revising my will. I promised back in 2018 if I ever got sick and hurt I end my life and here I absolutely terrified. It’s covid 19 I’m immunocompromised and looking at knee reconstruction.
22/03/2021
Help Us End The Suffering Chronic Pain Patients.
"There is a name for abandoned pain patients, left to fend for themselves. Dr. Steve Passik coined the term “opioid refugee” in 2012. Tragically, some of these opioid refugees have died in their quest for relief. They sought relief that would allow them to get restful sleep, enjoy quality time with loved ones, and give them the ability to fulfill responsibilities to their family and society."
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2020/12/2/help-us-end-the-suffering-of-chronic-pain-patients
Help Us End the Suffering of Chronic Pain Patients — Pain News Network By Anne Fuqua, Guest Columnist In 2014, a good friend of mine suffered a heart attack after his opioid pain medications were stopped abruptly. This was despite the fact his records showed that he was a responsible and compliant patient who worked full-time. Following his death, I started logging
14/02/2021
Mercedes McGuire of Indiana ended her life August 4th, 2017 after struggling with agony originally suppressed with opioid pain medicine but reappearing after her pain medicine was cut back in a fashion after the CDC regulations. She was in such discomfort she went to the ER because she could not stand the intractable pain by “learning to live with it” as suggested by CDC consultants. The ER gave her a small prescription. She went to the pharmacy where they refused to fill it “because she had a pain contract.” She went home and killed herself. She was a young mother with a 4 year old son, Bentley.
Link to obituary:
http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Mercedes-Kirsten-McGuire-105071405
Mercedes McGuire Obituary - Indianapolis, Indiana - Tributes.com Death record and obituary for Mercedes Kirsten McGuire from Indianapolis, Indiana.
13/02/2021
OWN Host Laura Berman's Son, 16, Dies After Drug Overdose: 'My Heart Is Completely Shattered'
"Dr. Berman said her teen son got the drugs from a drug dealer that connected with him on Snapchat. Both she and her husband told NBC News there was no way their son knew he was getting drugs laced with fentanyl.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/nation-world/own-host-dr-laura-berman-mourns-death-of-16-year-old-son-overdose-gives-snapchat-warning/507-a86cab83-2cf4-4afe-8784-561e1aff1369
OWN host Dr. Laura Berman's son, 16, dies after drug overdose The relationship therapist said her 16-year-old son died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl laced Xanax he got from someone he connected with on Snapchat.