Dawn Rae you have my full support, and I agree with your article completely.

It makes me furious when some, who do not have chronic pain, feel they know what's best for those suffering with chronic pain.  As my mother lay dying in a hospital bed, she was wracked with pain so bad that she bit her front tooth off, clenching her teeth from pain.  This was in the 1990s, and we had to struggle with doctors and hospital administration to get them to administer morphine.  The local doctor was adamant that she not take morphine as it was addictive.  Here's the thing, doc... she was dying!  If she happened to overcome the terminal nature of her illness, go worry about the morphine then!  After days of struggle, we were finally able to get my mother much needed morphine, but I will NEVER forgive the doctors who refused to prescribe the necessary medication to free her from her pain, and it truly saddens me when I hear that people today still struggle to get pain-killing medication when required