Proposed law will hurt chronic pain sufferers

I used to get cluster headaches every other year starting in my early 50s. I would have 100 plus headaches in a six-week period, then they would go away for two years. My doctor and I found that Percodan worked the best if taken at the onset. He would prescribe 120 pills at a time.

I would have to go to his office to get a refill prescription. I can only imagine how hard that would be with Gov. Scott’s proposed law limiting opioid prescriptions to three days.

My understanding is that the current overdose crisis is not because of prescriptions, but rather heroin laced with fentanyl. So to combat this we are going to make things much more difficult for people with legitimate pain issues.

Imagine a senior citizen without family or a means of transportation having to go to their doctor every three days to get a new prescription. Another case of the cure being worse than the problem.

This story was originally published October 2, 2017 at 3:06 PM with the headline "Proposed law will hurt chronic pain sufferers."