This story hits me especially hard. I am a chronic pain patient who went through years of surgery, rehab and tortuous treatments before I was finally able to hook-up with a pain clinic who is able to dispense the medication I require in what for a "normal" person would be an excessive dose. I admit that I live in Canada where the "war on drugs" has not become a totally out of control and paranoid crusade by the government.

In the U.S. however, many doctors are fearful or writing prescriptions for narcotic medication because of government interference. There are any number of cases of doctors treating chronic pain patients with the medicine they need, only to lose their licenses due to overzealous federal drug agents.

The real crime is when legitimate chronic pain patients, whose lives are miserable enough to begin with, are treated like junkies trying to hustle drugs in order to get their medical needs met. And that the doctors who try to treat them are so often harassed.

This is an excellent clip Zazel. No one should have to suffer with chronic pain, but many still continue to.

Thanx debbyski, I was hoping people would react favourably to it. This is a very real problem that the general public is almost entirely unaware of. I appreciate your sensitivity.