I can't bear to think of it.

Why are they being so cruel to those of us who are law abiding, while the crooks get away with it? When someone grabs grandma's meds from her purse or medicine cabinet, why is that grandma’s fault?

Overdoses have been around for years and years. Who did we blame? The one who stuck the needle in their arm, that's who. Yes, we have a drug epidemic, but do something about the drugs coming across our borders. There has been enough squeezing of patients. Give them what works for them. It sickens me to see patients treated unjustly turning to other ways to help themselves.

I'm truly afraid that everything in my life as I know it will end. Thanks to irrational politicians who have taken away our right to be as free of pain as possible.

I think sometimes about what will be said in the future. We'll be saying, “Remember the days when we were able to have pain relief and no one had to suffer?”

I know that people are dying, but to equate prescriptions with illegal drugs to make some political point is wrong. I wish those that are in pain could march down Pennsylvania Avenue. But we are too sick for that.