http://gopetition.com/signatures/stop-the-dea-from-criminalizing-routine-geriatric-care-in-nursing-homes.html Online petition signatures en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:11 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19760589?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:02:16 UTC 19760589 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/18113862?utm_medium=rss Thu, 6 Nov 2014 08:01:02 UTC 18113862 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17875763?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Sep 2014 01:51:28 UTC 17875763 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17845143?utm_medium=rss Mon, 15 Sep 2014 08:44:49 UTC 17845143 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17844747?utm_medium=rss Mon, 15 Sep 2014 06:25:01 UTC 17844747 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17844552?utm_medium=rss Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:10:53 UTC 17844552 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843999?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:00:57 UTC 17843999 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843987?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:48:48 UTC 17843987 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843876?utm_medium=rss This is not a way to reduce narcotic drug use...pain management will be very difficult.

]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:37:48 UTC 17843876 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843840?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:12:15 UTC 17843840 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843833?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:09:30 UTC 17843833 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843826?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:03:20 UTC 17843826 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843825?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 09:02:43 UTC 17843825 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843766?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 08:35:08 UTC 17843766 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843731?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 08:09:33 UTC 17843731 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843700?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 07:52:44 UTC 17843700 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843674?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 07:37:25 UTC 17843674 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843612?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 07:00:27 UTC 17843612 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843598?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 06:51:22 UTC 17843598 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843473?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 05:29:33 UTC 17843473 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843465?utm_medium=rss This restriction is going to impede our resident's overall quality of life.

]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2014 05:24:47 UTC 17843465 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843462?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 05:22:19 UTC 17843462 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843459?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 05:20:48 UTC 17843459 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843455?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 05:18:00 UTC 17843455 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843450?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 05:15:09 UTC 17843450 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843439?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 05:09:57 UTC 17843439 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843419?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:54:46 UTC 17843419 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843388?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:37:38 UTC 17843388 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843355?utm_medium=rss Patients are going to suffer in pain because of all the regulations!!

]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:18:52 UTC 17843355 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843214?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 02:55:09 UTC 17843214 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16212410?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:09:03 UTC 16212410 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15457105?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:37:55 UTC 15457105 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13985885?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:03:52 UTC 13985885 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13985854?utm_medium=rss This is an ongoing issue for our facility, and amending these DEA rules to cover nurses as agents of the physician only makes sense.

]]> Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:54:55 UTC 13985854 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13980377?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:07:16 UTC 13980377 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13971080?utm_medium=rss Resident/patient needs to be first priority

]]> Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:45:28 UTC 13971080 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13399643?utm_medium=rss D.E.A RULES ARE NOT PRACTICAL,OR EVEN HUMAN TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY FOR FRAILE,IN PAIN PATIENTS THAT NEED BASIC PATIENT CARE IN HIS/HER LAST DAYS WHY DOES THE D.E.A IS NOT GOING AFTER REAL DRUG DEALERS IT IS JUST A CONTROL ISSUE -IF THE D.E.A 'FAMILY IS IN LTC HOW WOULD THEY FEEL ABOUT PAIN AND SUFFERING -THERE IS A LAW AND SPIRIT OF THE LAW BUT STUPIDTY HAVE NO BOUNDRY

]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:47:39 UTC 13399643 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13238906?utm_medium=rss Tue, 3 Jul 2012 09:57:16 UTC 13238906 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13003464?utm_medium=rss this interpretation by the DEA is causing the vulnerable elderly in nursing homes to suffer unneccessarily. they should be ashamed. their ruling serves NO useful purpose

]]> Wed, 6 Jun 2012 05:23:47 UTC 13003464 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11908923?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:09:17 UTC 11908923 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11698127?utm_medium=rss Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:54:51 UTC 11698127 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11081021?utm_medium=rss Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:06:35 UTC 11081021 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10551697?utm_medium=rss Thu, 26 May 2011 11:57:10 UTC 10551697 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10546705?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 May 2011 09:25:35 UTC 10546705 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9963511?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:01:45 UTC 9963511 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9267975?utm_medium=rss Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:48:07 UTC 9267975 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9215015?utm_medium=rss Wed, 5 Jan 2011 05:14:33 UTC 9215015 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9071530?utm_medium=rss patients should not be bound to inevitable sufferering just out of the lettering of the law, the intent should be the law...The responsibility of caregivers and institutions should supercede jots and tittles of law.

]]> Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:27:33 UTC 9071530 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/9060109?utm_medium=rss Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:45:30 UTC 9060109 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8600801?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:44:06 UTC 8600801 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8378887?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:44:44 UTC 8378887 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8362358?utm_medium=rss Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:02:45 UTC 8362358 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8362276?utm_medium=rss Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:39:43 UTC 8362276 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8360380?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:04:12 UTC 8360380 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8360274?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:29:50 UTC 8360274 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8360264?utm_medium=rss have had to send patients from nh to er for pain meds because hard copy did not arrive causing non compliance with both regs and treatment plan

]]> Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:27:04 UTC 8360264 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8360010?utm_medium=rss Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:05:44 UTC 8360010 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8359977?utm_medium=rss Numerous NH residents suffer needlessly with pain because of this bureaucratic nonsense.

]]> Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:55:20 UTC 8359977 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8196080?utm_medium=rss Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:15:15 UTC 8196080 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8196048?utm_medium=rss Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:04:59 UTC 8196048 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8195961?utm_medium=rss It is very difficult to get patients in extremis and not be able to help them due to bureaucratic delays. All it would take is for one politician to have this happen to his/her family member and the law would be changed. The agony is unbelievable while we wait to be able to deliver humanitarian aide to the distraught. If you add working evening or night shift to this when no one is available you have some idea of the nightmare our patients are experiencing

]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:38:44 UTC 8195961 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8137696?utm_medium=rss The new DEA system is causing undo emotional pain and suffering. I have seen delays in obtaining pain and anxiety meds from the E-box. We MUST be allowed to follow Md orders and medicate our residents promptly, esp those on comfort care.

]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:57:29 UTC 8137696 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/8126213?utm_medium=rss I work in a LTC facility and last night we had a terminal pt need pain meds. It took 3 hours to complete this task. The on call physcian refused to call the pharmacy to give a verbal order so we could access the e-kit. This patient died this morning, after spending half the night in pain. Someone needs to hear how this is impacting nursing home residents. This is neglect in my eyes and someone should be responsible.

]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:48:36 UTC 8126213 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7837822?utm_medium=rss BRING IT ON!

]]> Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:01:37 UTC 7837822 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7705791?utm_medium=rss Would like the people who interpreted this law to work in nursing home for a month or so and see the suffering this law can, will, and does cause. Better yet would like them to experience first hand what it is like to have to wait for a pain medication that is badly needed. How sad that so few can cause the suffering of so many by thier ignorance of reality.

]]> Thu, 20 May 2010 11:27:55 UTC 7705791 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7571256?utm_medium=rss This makes transferring patients to Skilled care a logistical nightmare!

]]> Mon, 10 May 2010 04:28:25 UTC 7571256 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7461536?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:38:43 UTC 7461536 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7411553?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:47:55 UTC 7411553 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7249438?utm_medium=rss Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:33:43 UTC 7249438 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7248320?utm_medium=rss We do not have an in house pharmacy, Hospitals are choosing to trasfer patients to our facility with out any pain medication at all -including FX back/ribs/Hip&knee replacements as those Doctors do not want to hand write scripts we use electronic charting why should we take the hit for pain management and make my people suffer r/t to urgent cares and offices over use and others abuse. It is a horible system as we are 24/hours and pharmacys and Dr's are not in office 24 hours a day.

]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:09:10 UTC 7248320 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7212572?utm_medium=rss Nursing home nurses should be considered agents of the physician.

]]> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:07:24 UTC 7212572 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7176808?utm_medium=rss My mother is 81 years old. She has had open heart surgery, COPD and is diabetic. She also reguires a total hip replacement, and two knee replacements, however, her cardiologist will not clear her for surgery. According to her doctor her hip is so deterorated the ball is now a point like the tip of an arrow and when she bends in any way it gets stuck which is excrucataiting. The only relief she is able to obtain is through her pain medicne. Im at my witts end trying to get her medicines.

]]> Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:56:11 UTC 7176808 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7141025?utm_medium=rss Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:18:47 UTC 7141025 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7109952?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:27:33 UTC 7109952 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7095660?utm_medium=rss The elderly in long term care are suffering and not receiving medication for pain in a timely manner. Sometimes the wait is up to 2 hours while a physician responds and completes a prescription and a pharmacist gives authorization for a licensed nurse to administer the medication.

]]> Sun, 7 Mar 2010 01:48:28 UTC 7095660 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7064284?utm_medium=rss Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:42:01 UTC 7064284 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7057499?utm_medium=rss Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:35:27 UTC 7057499 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7054265?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:36:08 UTC 7054265 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7054229?utm_medium=rss Nurses are trained to care for and to try to ease the suffering of those we care for. The government with all its regulations is making it hard for us to do our job. When I have to watch a patient suffer needlessly, I'll make sure to think of them the next time I vote.

]]> Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:21:17 UTC 7054229 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7048880?utm_medium=rss Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:34:11 UTC 7048880 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7046676?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:03:28 UTC 7046676 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7046368?utm_medium=rss need to think of patient's first-how is this beneficial to them - especially if the M.D. has to be notified @ 2 am-how is that M.D. going to fax or will he call pharmacy @ that time-meanwhile the resident is the one who suffers-----SPEAK UP NURSES PROTECT YOUR RESIDENTS

]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:34:31 UTC 7046368 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7045805?utm_medium=rss I have experienced taking care of a dying patient that had to wait 4 hours before being able to receive pain medicine. I could do nothing but watch her suffer! I did all I could to comfort her, but she needed the pain medication!

]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:23:59 UTC 7045805 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7045686?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:03:03 UTC 7045686 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7045159?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:25:52 UTC 7045159 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7045083?utm_medium=rss People should not be made to suffer.......

]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:12:12 UTC 7045083 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7044919?utm_medium=rss Patients are suffering due to the fact that they have to wait for the pharmacy to receive a script/emergency call from the physician. In a most recent case, a dying patient had to wait 4 hrs before receiving medications that were vital in keeping the patient comfortable. This is unethical!

]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:39:38 UTC 7044919 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/7005038?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:44:19 UTC 7005038 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6984292?utm_medium=rss Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:53:13 UTC 6984292 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6968971?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:27:37 UTC 6968971 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6961428?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:10:49 UTC 6961428 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6961355?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:53:37 UTC 6961355 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6960408?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:59:05 UTC 6960408 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6957637?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Feb 2010 06:24:36 UTC 6957637 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6957053?utm_medium=rss THIS IS A HUGE OBSTACLE IN DELIVERING PAIN MANAGEMENT MEDS TO NURSING HOME PATIENTS. THEY ARE "PATIENTS," NOT RESIDENTS AS FASHIONABLY REFERRED TO. MANY ARE TERMINAL AND HAVE ACUTE PAIN THAT MEANS TITRATING MEDICATIONS UPWARD TO MANAGE THEIR PAIN. THIS NEW TWIST TO THE LAW IS RIDICULOUS AND TIES NURSES HANDS AND PREVENTS PATIENTS FROM GETTING MUCH NEEDED PAIN MEDICATION IN A TIMELY MANNER. COMPLETELY LUDICROUS. UNLIKE HOSPITALS, NURSING HOMES DON'T HAVE IN HOUSE PHARMACIES. CHANGE LAW NOW!

]]> Sun, 7 Feb 2010 03:54:10 UTC 6957053 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6956065?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Feb 2010 11:17:57 UTC 6956065 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6955879?utm_medium=rss The bottom line to this "new" law is that the IN-PATIENTS in the nursing home are no longer getting the pain medication that is prescribed for them for pain management as soon as they should because of the beaurocratic red tape that mandates they be treated like an out patient, even though the nursing home is now their home & they are in-patients! This means they remain in pain until all these useless mandates are met. How would they like their loved one to endure this???

]]> Sun, 7 Feb 2010 10:28:50 UTC 6955879 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6954572?utm_medium=rss As a nurse caring for nursing home patients the current law being enforced regarding dispensation of narcotics in the nursing home setting prevents nurses from adminitering pain management in a timely manner. This is causing harm to the patient. Preventing needed comfort especially at the end of life. We are not able to always know when a persons condition will change. I say let the ones who write these laws lay in a bed or have a love one be deprived of pain intervention!!!!! Thank you NURSE

]]> Sun, 7 Feb 2010 01:14:50 UTC 6954572 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/6952892?utm_medium=rss Far from being only an inconvenience the current mode of operation of the DEA it is an abuse of authority granted by the citizens of this country.We need to additionally enlist the services of our senators and representatives to expedite action to redress this wrong and disclose the identy of the individuals responsible and and hold them accountable for this travesty.It needs to be done soon.

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