Talley Legal Defense Fund & <A HREF="http://www.asappain.com/Dr._Joseph_Talley.html">Letter to US Senator John Edwards:</A> (Please send your letter by US Mail rather than by eMail)
This Man is NOT a "Drug Dealer!
"He's a National Hero"
>
> The RESULT of all this:
>
> Dear Skip:
>
> I have a friend whose elderly father has cancer and is dying. His cancer
> doctor cut his pain medicine from 40 mgs Oxycontin down to 20 mgs and then
> down to 30 mgs of morphine. He also was supposed to see his doctor last
> Friday and she didn't come in so after contacting her when he was out of
> his pain medicine she told him to get his prescription from his PCP. The
> PCP refused to write him his prescription or any pain medicine so now he is
> out and is suffering terribly. I remember hearing about an elderly person
> who was dying and his doctor undertreated him for his pain and after he
> died his family sued the doctor for undertreatment of pain and they won the
> case. Do you have any idea what my friend could do now to keep his father
> from dying in terrible pain?
>
> Your friend,
>
> Sarah/La
>
> (See <A HREF="http://www.asappain.com/CancerSuicide.html">Cancer Patient Kills Self</A> on the web page! What else can they do? The <A HREF="http://www.asappain.com/Patspeach.html">
> DEA</A>, <A HREF="http://www.asappain.com/PoliceStateofMedicine.html">Medical Boards</A> and Prosecutors put doctors on trial FOR treating pain,
> so no wonder no doctors want to treat anybody's pain anymore! They are
> stopping all over the nation now! Many, because of what happened to Dr.
> Graves. The doctors know that he was treating pain exactly the SAME way
> they are, so they just stop, leaving millions suffering. I believe that
> people like that who are forced by their government to take their own
> lives, aren't suicides at all but rather "murder victims" and the
> "government officials" who caused the crisis, are the ones pulling the
> trigger! Skip).
>
> Senator John Edwards
> United States Senate
> 225 Dirksen Office Building
> Washington, D.C. 20510
>
> Dear Senator Edwards:
>
> "When the United States Congress wrote the Controlled Substances Act, they
> put in provisions for Intractable Pain Patients so that no Pain Patient in
> America would be forced into the agony of suicide for lack of the life
> saving pain medication they needed. However, in order to "get credit" for
> "fighting the War On Drugs," the DEA has been "raiding" innocent pain
> doctors all over the nation. Dr. Joseph Talley of North Carolinia is the
> latest victim of this deliberate Purge of Pain Doctors the DEA is
> conducting, despite their promise to us that we'd be assured our
> medication. This has caused Genocide across our nation, as thousands of
> American Intractable Pain Patients are forced to take their own lives
> because they are suffering with "suicidal pain levels" for which they
> cannot get adequate pain medication to treat. Thousends of doctors have
> quit treating pain all together last year because of this "Purge of Terror"
> the drug war has brought."
>
> "The DEA "raids" have resulted in the average pain pill prescription to be
> just 30 pain pills per month, expecting the victim of horrific pain to have
> just ONE four hour pill per day. Every pain patient has been given one of
> these nearly useless prescriptions, that has forced many to break the law
> and see more than one doctor in an attempt to avoid suicide. Any doctor who
> provides 24 hours of pain relief per day, as per the CSA and the
> Guidelines, is then "raided" and put out of business because "law
> enforcement" rather than the "Medical Community," is deciding "<A HREF="http://www.asappain.com/home-1.html">dosage
> amounts</A>" today. The misrepresentation that the DEA has used to keep this
> horrific torture secret from The Congress and ongoing, is far worse than
> what the IRS had been doing to innocent American citizens a few years back,
> before The Congress took action."
>
> "We are asking you Senator Edwards to have the courage to stand up against
> this powerful renegade Agency of the US Government, that has caused so much
> death and suffering over the past two decades, and has done such damage to
> our <A HREF="http://www.asappain.com/4thAmendment.html">Bill of Rights</A>. The Suicide rate for American Pain Patients is 900%
> above the average, and 16,500 Americans are dying each year over the
> bleeding complications of NSAIDS alone, because doctors are too terrified
> of the DEA to treat pain with "real" pain medication instead. Please help
> stop this "National Disaster" as NIH calls the under treatment of pain, by
> holding Senate Hearings into the Under treatment of Pain and the DEA's
> illegal role in causing this suffering by "raiding doctors" who treat
> pain."
>
> "Thank you for your concern for the 50 million of us who are suffering with
> Intractable Pain and have no where to turn, unless you are willing to help
> by taking this action. As one citizen writes: "the use of Convicted
> Criminals who have collaborated with the prosecutors, to tell lies and
> falsehoods against doctors for reduced sentences, or a "Get out of Jail
> Free" pass for their perjury on the witness stand, is a process that must
> end before nobody in America can get medicine for their suffering." He is
> so right that this is the exact cause of the agony that millions of
> Americans are facing today. Unless we can as a people stop the "Planned
> Perjury " of the DEA, nobody in America will be safe from false arrest, and
> no pain patient will be able to get relief from their suffering.
>
> Most respectfully yours,
>
> Skip Baker, President,
> American Society for Action on Pain.
>
> Forwarded by Helen Chalmers