The current opioid-phobia and CDC guidelines are inhumane and not effective and have left many chronic and intractable pain patients bedridden with a horrific quality of life, when in reality there are as many deaths due to so-called “safe” NSAIDs as there are to legitimate opioid prescriptions.  DNA testing can determine safe usage doses of opioids by determining which opioids are the most effective and metabolism rates on a patient by patient basis, but are rarely, if ever used. There are also other promising treatments on the horizon.  The total cost to the economy by not classifying chronic pain as a disease, and instead calling it a symptom, and the lack of providing the necessary medical treatments to resolve this debilitating disease in both health plan costs and job productivity loss is approaching $1 Trillion dollars annually.  

We are not advocating opioids as the first, or only, option for chronic pain.  However, we are advocating that the current opioid dosage guidelines be abolished and prescriptions allowed to be increased to the dosage necessary to provide relief from chronic pain sufferers for whom opioids are the only current drug that works.  Voting Genie will work on the legalese of such a Federal Law in support of chronic pain patients as well as other supporting measures to establish meaningful treatment protocols, ways to eliminate street drugs (which many chronic pain patients have resorted to after having their prescription levels drastically reduced by “well-intended guidelines.”)

To be clear, funding of political candidates is not our primary goal, although in certain cases, we may do so.  Rather the reason we are asking for funding is to create a complete overhaul of Government rules and regulations that the “War on Opioids” has resulted in the enormous black market for fentanyl laced counterfeit street opioids, fentanyl itself, methadone (which is by far the most deadly legal opioid) and thereby reducing crime: from drug cartels; street gangs; and pain sufferers who steal to afford these street drugs.  By doing so, we can drastically reduce the size of the DEA and transfer this excess personnel to secure our borders, protect our electric grids and beef up homeland security.  Funding will additionally be used to reach all 150 million U.S. members of the chronic pain community so their voice can be heard loud and clear at the polls.  Funding will also be used to “deprogram” the medical community and the general public of the fallacies behind the “War on Opioids” (which coincide with the failures (and growth in crime) directly attributable to Prohibition, Reefer Madness, Just Say No movements.)

By using Voting Genie™, the 150 million chronic pain sufferers and their families will enable these voters to be aware of the U.S. House, U.S. Senate and U.S. Presidential candidates who have signed a binding pledge to make this the first vote they make once voted into office.  For chronic pain sufferers this single issue will get their vote, and in itself is enough to make those candidates who make said binding pledge the winners in both the primary and general elections.