Frances Carrillo

From: RHONDA FREEMAN

Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 7:30 AM
To: Frances Carrillo
Subject: FW: Proposed changes to regulation Part 2640

Categories: Regulation

 
 
 
From: Mark ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 8:13 PM
To: RHONDA FREEMAN
Subject: Proposed changes to regulation Part 2640

To Whom It May Concern:

I am an insomniac and have occasional battles with inflammation. Both of these conditions are inherited and I
have managed them for years.

I take a Benzodiazepine for sleep. I cannot function without it. And an opioid when necessary.

My understanding is that the new proposed changes to regulate these two drugs is going to effect me financially
and logistically. Please note my comments on these changes.

I am opposed to my doctor running an Prescription Monitoring Program report (PMP) for each prescription
written.
I am opposed to investigators that work for the State having access to my health files.
I am extremely OPPOSED to having to have a drug test before I get my medicine.
I am extremely OPPOSED to having to see my doctor every three months for my medication.
I work and travel and produce much tax for MS therefore I may need more than a 7 day script of opioid. I take
this rarely and ONLY as needed.
I am greatly OPPOSED to you telling my doctor that he cannot prescribe both drugs concurrently.

I had forgotten my medicine on a recent trip to Houston, TX. I went to Kroger to get a temporary fill. Kroger
had my script. You know the reason I could not get my sleep medicine? Because I was from MS and MS
doesn't allow the script to transfer. I had to go to an emergency room to a script for my medicine that cost me
$500 and five hours. If I was from another state it would have been no problem. You have done enough. Stop
now.

Why do I read these proposed changes and suddenly feel like a criminal?

Because they are wrong.

Mark PhD, CPA, CFE

, MS

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From: RHONDA FREEMAN

Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 2:54 PM
To: Frances Carrillo
Subject: FW: Opioid Proposals

Categories: Regulation

 
 
 
From: Childs, Patricia A - Booneville, MS [ ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 2:12 PM
To: RHONDA FREEMAN
Subject: Opioid Proposals
 
This letter is in response to your proposed rule changes on opioid prescriptions. I don’t want to sound as if I am an 
opioid abuser or use them for recreational purposes. I don’t do drugs and I don’t drink. I am NOT on disability and work 
6 days per week always in pain but I intend on fighting my problem until the death. I was encouraged to file for disability 
long ago but refused to do so. I am determined to remain a productive member of society until I die. 
 
I was diagnosed with crippling arthritis several years ago. It is inherited from my mother’s side of my family. I watched 
my mother and grandmother suffer and linger in a nursing home for years unable to take care of themselves. I decided 
to fight and keep moving fighting the pain daily. 
 
I have already had back surgery and knee replacement surgery. The other knee and a hip needs to be replaced now and I 
am saving up my sick and vacation time to get them done. If I don’t have a paycheck coming in, I don’t eat or pay my 
bills. I am not married, have no children, parents are deceased, and my brother and sister both live out of state and can 
not take care of me. I am alone. 
 
I have worked for the post office for about 5 years so retirement is not an option. All my fellow employees are aware of 
my condition. I have already discussed my problem with management and informed them as I age I will be looking for a 
smaller post office to transfer to that will not be so stressful on my body. I do not plan on completely retiring for I fear if 
I ever sit down I will not be able to get up again. 
 
I tried over the counter medications for pain relief and they did not work. Furthermore, they thinned my blood so bad 
that I had black and blue marks all over my arms and hands. This prompted the union president to confront my about 
my “problem.” The other employees thought I was in an abusive relationship and being beaten by a man. This deeply 
embarrassed and hurt me. It is then that I sought out my doctor to give me arthritis and pain medications. Do the pills 
kill all the pain? NO but they dull the pain enough that I can keep moving and that is the focus of my life – to keep 
moving. 
 
I beg you to find some means of my keeping my medications for without it I will be unable to work, unable to take care 
of myself, and in a nursing home in a short period of time. A totally useless life. 
 
I realize there is a problem with abusers and “high seekers” but there are people such as me, who thankfully don’t have 
cancer, but depend on them to live a productive life. Taking them from me would be the end of my life as I know it. I 
can’t stand the thought of being useless and a burden on society. There are those of us who use these medications for 
which it was intended. Please do not punish us for what others have done. 
 
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From: THE MISSISSIPPI STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE

Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 10:19 AM
To: Frances Carrillo
Subject: FW: Pain Medication and Pain Management

Categories: Regulation

From: David Smith [mailto:d ]

Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 9:17 AM
To: THE MISSISSIPPI STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE
Cc:
Subject: Pain Medication and Pain Management
 

To the Ladies and Gentlemen, Doctors of the Mississippi Licensure Board:

I was visiting with my doctor the other day, having my annual wellness visit, and the subject of my
pain management and medication was pretty thoroughly discussed. My doctor advised me that
because of the perceived opiod crisis, that it’s possible that his ability to prescribe my pain medication
could be altered or adversely effected. My doctor has diagnosed me with Trigeminal Nuragelia and
Atypical Trigeminal Nuragelia. He advised me when this was first diagnosed that it would be possible
to prescribe Lyrica, but after reading the side effects of Lyrica, I determined that I would rather
manage the flare ups of this with the pain medication that he prescribed. He has now informed me
that he does not believe the side effects of Lyrica to be all that great, but I would rather at this point
manage the pain of the flare up’s with pain medication, and try Lyrica later if necessary. Let me state
that I am certainly not a doctor, don’t have anywhere near all of the knowledge of the opiod drug
facts, I just know that when you are having a flare up of this chronic pain, you’ll do most anything for
some relief, and taking the pain medication he prescribes helps tremendously. I do not under any
circumstances want to ability of my doctor compromised to prescribe this medicine to me because of
political pressure from a politician that has nothing to do with pain management. I am asking that this
board leave the doctor/patient relationship where it belongs, in the doctor’s office, and if he thinks it
best to prescribe an opiod/hydrocodone/pain relief medication of any kind to his patient, then no one
should lessen his ability to do so.

I happened to catch a statement concerning the opiod crisis from Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics
Director John Dowd. He stated as a fact, that “what we have done is created a society of sissies and
there is a pill for everything”. Can Mr. Dowd state that he has never in his life taken a pain pill, not
even sissied out once, and tell me that if his wife, child, mother or father were suffering from, let’s say,
a bad chemo therapy treatment, that he would not be saying, here, take this to help ease your pain. If

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Mr. Dowd were to experience the pain that Trigeminal Nuragelia can throw at you, he would not be
advocating any change to a doctors ability to prescribe pain medication, of any kind. If there is a
problem with opiods, manage those with the problem, but do not punish those that truly need this type
of medication by lessening a doctors ability to prescribe the opiod.

Thank you all for your consideration of this matter.

David Smith