I recently sent mail to the following government agencies, and you can do the same. Don't tell your entire life story. There are only so many staff in these places to read the mail. But you can send a basic message:
- "I endorse the immediate withdrawal of the 2016 CDC guidelines on prescription of opioids in chronic pain. The guidelines are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives. And YOU will be responsible as accessories to torture and negligent homicide if you do not take a public stand on this important issue!" Be sure to sign your own name, and include your medical credentials if you have any. Let's make this go viral!
[*]White House Office for National Drug Control Policy [oipl@ondcp.eop.gov]
National Academies of Medicine - Action Collaborative on Countering the US Opioid Epidemic [OpioidCollaborative@nas.edu]
Government Accountability Office [contact@gao.gov]
Dr Vanila Singh, Chief Medical Officer, Assistant Secretary of Health [ash@hhs.gov]
HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Seema Verma, Administrator [seema.verma@cms.hhs.gov]
FDA Commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb [CommissionerFDA@fda.hhs.gov]
National Institutes on Drug Abuse, Director Dr Nora Volkow, [nvolkow@nida.nih.gov]
Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee Staff [tyler_shrive@help.senate.gov]
Human Rights Watch - Ms Laura Mills [millsl@hrw.org]
Source: Red Lawhern Facebook Post 04-03-2019