Re: Pain Management Agreement - DEA required?

I have a question for everyone here:

Why don't you demand that your doctor get a urinalysis as a condition
of treating you? After all, if your doctor's a druggie who is diverting
meds for his own use the odds are much greater that the DEA is going to
raid him than if you're a druggie. Since a DEA raid will not only
result in you immediately losing your meds and being plunged into
cold-turkey withdrawl unless you have violated your pain contract and
the law by hoarding a contingency supply of extra pills, shouldn't you
have some protections as well? Also, if your doctor gets busted by the
DEA, you immediately get stigmatized as one of his patients and no
doctor will touch you with a ten foot pole for fear that the DEA will
follow you to them.

Shouldn't you be able to demand a blood test imemdiately prior to a
surgery, trigger-point injections or other procedures where your
doctor's being drunk or stoned might have severe consequences?

The reason why you don't do this is obvious: you have no power. Your
doctor will either laugh at you, or get all haughty and outraged at the
suggestion he might be a drug user or had ti many martoonis at lunch
time and boot you out of the office.

And it is this reality, this differential of power, that needs to be
changed. The contract is merely a formality that puts into writing the
reality of the situation. If you want to get treated, you have to sign,
and I don't blame anyone for doing so. It would be insane not to. But
I can't understand the attitude that says it is okay and understandable
that they should wield this kind of power over us. It isn't.

--Sean C
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