I’m never going to give up trying to get people to do what is needed to stop the government attacks on opioids, pain management, doctors, and chronic pain patients.  It takes thousands of communications to legislators to get their attention. All the people out there who say “I write to my legislator” are basically wasting their time. Their letter goes into the circular file and the staff person who read it simply spits out a form letter to send back. The legislator never hears what you said, and obviously from the continued anti-opioid policies being proposed by our legislators (check out the list of bills above for 2023-24), they will continue chasing the rabbit wasting tax dollars. So I hope people get on what is needed–what we have here on Doctors (and Patients) of Courage.

For 2024, I want to focus on getting the Controlled Substance Act repealed.  But that requires people doing the necessary work.

We have to get this information to the legislators.  That is the purpose of the communication campaign. So, if you haven’t already, communicate regularly with your legislators’ health issues staff on the information I share here on the communication/resources page.  If you don’t know who your health staffers are, fill out the pink form on the Contact Us page, and I’ll send you that information.

For supporting members and ambassadors of Doctorsofcourage, you have the complete list of all health issues staff in the membership site. For examples of emails to send to the health staff, you can use mine, modify to your own needs.  I will have examples listed under assignments on the Communication Campaign page.

So please, share this website with all of your contacts, and join the communication campaign.

What You Need to Do

Get involved with the Communication Campaign.  On that page you will find the instructions for the communication that needs to be made. Throughout the page you will find the points that need to be shared with your legislator, and how to do it.

 There are other helpful aides under that same menu item, such as “Resources”.  The submenu sections US Senate and US House of Representatives has a complete list of all legislators, information about them, and the Groups page has the lists of groups that you need to communicate with for specific issues. But these pages do not have the point and click feature to get to emails, FB pages, and twitter pages that are available only to supporting DoC members. If you aren’t a supporting member you can go to Govtrack.us for the contact information. It will just take longer.

I hope I get a good turnout of people wanting to end the attacks on opioids that will join me in getting the information out there that will make a difference.  That isn’t CDC guidelines or SCOTUS decisions, or even the fact that people are dying due to lack of pain management. What we have to get across to the legislators is information that will help them get reelected next election, because that is all they care about. To do that, we need to show them that the War on Drugs is simply throwing billions of dollars down the drain, creating the border problem, and increasing disability in Americans (which costs $$$).  We need to explain to them the history of the War on Drugs, and how drugs are really not the cause of addiction. Then we need to point out how repealing the Controlled Substance Act will repair the problems.

So are you with me?

Then go to the Communication Campaign and be ready to start communicating with all of the legislators. Hopefully you will get involved now. The future of opioids is bleak if you don’t.