Write Congressman to help stop Oxycontin from being removed from the Market for Pain usage

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From: byrd45 (Original Message) Sent: 6/25/2005 10:42 AM
UPDATE - LAWMAKER WANTS OXYCONTIN REMOVED FROM MARKET

WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO WRITE TO THIS CONGRESSMAN

We need to get our friends, family, fellow chronic pain patients, anyone who might possibly have an interest in ever using Oxycontin to write in to this Congressman and to your own Congressmen and Women and ask them not to Co-sponsor this Bill and not to support it if it comes up for a vote.

So far the Bill has not gotten one co-sponsor and is still in committee's but we need to keep pushing. So many of us and other Chronic pain patient's are on this medication and are being helped by it.

Our campaign to write-in and stop him started here with this list but it struck out across the country. Within a week of all of you writing in and sharing the information on the website below, I heard from Chronic Pain Support groups of all sizes and types from every corner of the country shouting their support and asking how they could help! Because of YOUR efforts! Great job! Now we must continue the fight until he removes this Bill from the committee's.

The website below has all the information on the Bill, the Congressman's Office and contact numbers (and someone had asked if this was just a Massachusetts thing or Federal - it is Federal), it also has links so you can find your own Congressional Representative's contact Information and let them know not to support it.

So please get involved and pass the word on to others! Thank you all very much, there is great strength in numbers and now a whole lot more people in the Chronic Pain Community know what RSD stands for!

http://www.rsdhope.org/Showpage.asp?PAGE_ID=33&PGCT_ID=3061