I’m going to try one last time to get people to do what is needed to stop the government attacks on opioids, pain management, doctors, and chronic pain patients. I tried this in 2020 without luck. 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 (look at the defunct bills from the 117^th Congress at 7pillarstotalhealth if you are a DoC member), they will continue chasing the rabbit wasting tax dollars. So whether or not I get support with this last attempt to bring about change will determine my next steps—continuing in the fight or just figuring God isn’t ready to step in and I’ll start my fiction writing.

In the United States, April celebrates the outdoors with National Garden Month, Keep America Beautiful Month, and National Wildlife Week. Everyone should be growing a victory garden, even if it is a potted herb plant in the window sill. We did a victory garden campaign a couple of years ago, but few people did it. However, growing your own vegetables improves your health, microbiome in your gut, brain health, anxiety..you name it, working in nature improves everything.  So even though we won’t be trying to organize a victory garden campaign, I hope you grow one.

April is also Stress Awareness Month. Now with the current situation with pain management, everyone’s stress level is up. So it is important to do everything you can to reduce your stress.  Growing your victory garden is one. Exercising, yoga, medication, alkalinizing your diet, are all stress reducers. Please, do not get into the use of benzodiazepines.  They worsen pain by removing GABA from your nervous system. 

In order to reduce everyone’s stress, the important thing to do, starting this month, is communicate regularly with your legislators’ health issues staff.  If you don’t know who that is, 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.  The House staff are there, and I’m working on the Senate. They should be done by the end of the week.  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

The Communication Campaign will be run on the page on Doctorsofcourage called “Communication Campaign”. That should be easy to remember.  If you don’t remember, just go to the search symbol and put in one of the words, and it should be brought up.  It is also on the top menu under “Call to Action”.  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.

For the information on the legislators, you will find that on the Top Menu Bar under “Communicate”.  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 pages Communicate and Communication Campaign and be ready to start communicating with all of the legislators.

How will I know if my work is being carried out and if it is God’s will that we actually get somewhere? I get a daily count of how many visits to pages occur, and how long a person is on the page, on average. So it won’t take me long to know if my work is in vain and I just need to quit and move on with my life. I’ve been active since I got out of prison Dec, 2015. If people had gotten on board what I teach, this problem would already be solved, and would have been by 2018. Hopefully you will get involved now. The future of opioids is bleak if you don’t.