I would love to have someone in the Virginia General Assembly explain to me why you know so much more about treating chronic pain than those that suffer from it. Why did you choose to make a medication that was helping thousands of Virginians that suffer from chronic neuropathic pain harder for them to get? Yes I know because drug users were abusing it, so you follow the same stupid moronic thought process as gun control. If we take the guns away from law-abiding people and make more laws then bad people will stop committing so much gun violence. So following that same principle, we take medication that is working for thousands of law-abiding Virginias that suffer from chronic pain because it is being abused in the prison system.

For some reason, we forget the basics things like, Bad people will do bad things, or that bad people don’t follow the laws. I mean a solid example is that cocaine has been illegal in the U.S. since 1914, and marijuana has been illegal since 1970, but they are still widely used and abused in the U.S. That only proves that the laws don’t work.

But you, Virginia, choose to make it harder to get useful medications like Gabapentin by moving it further down the controlled substance list. Now doctors are reluctant to prescribe it and are looking to alternatives like Lyrica or Cymbalta, which are far worse than Gabapentin but are not on the same level as Gabapentin on the controlled substance list.

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2557S

Now I’m stuck with Lyrica and it is worse than Cymbalta. Now don’t get me wrong, Gabapentin isn’t awesome, but at least it was working and had side effects that I could handle.

I want my Gabapentin Back!!!