Disability Rolls Skyrocket As DEA Restricts Legal Pain Meds

by Monica Davis

Here we go: again. The infamous War Against Drugs and its two-fold strike against honest Americans: restricting pain meds to people in chronic pain and driving those people out of the workforce and on to the disability rolls.

As the pressure on pain doctors increases, fewer people in chronic pain get meds. Many of them are unable to work or function without their meds. Functioning, in many cases means WORKING.

Social Security Disability is a hot spot for many alleged conservatives, who view the program as a haven for lazy and/or drug addicted people who will not, but can work. Reality is: there is abuse, but some pain clinics are life savers.

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