Jun 06 2008
About
The Dignity for Chronic Pain Sufferers website was established to aid those who currently suffer from debilitating chronic pain illnesses. In most cases, these individuals require constant care and treatment involving some of the most powerful pain relief medication available.
Due to current government policy and constant intervention, sufferers are forced to attend drug rehabilitation clinics, where their rights to human dignity are denied, and they are often stereotyped as drug addicts.
What’s worse is that in most cases, their level of pain relief is lowered, because the pain is assumed to be psychological, when often, scientific and medical proof exists to prove that it is not.
Adding to this, the traditional patient/doctor relationship is abolished as sufferers are not allowed to choose their own general practitioner to write prescriptions for the level of pain relief they require to live let alone exist. The medical records of sufferers are also reviewed by the Medical Board to ensure that these wrongly stereotyped individuals are kept under close watch.
Aims or Purpose of the DFPS
To promote appropriate, respectful pain relief for all those who can use it, irrespective of colour, class or creed.
To ensure appropriately tailored prescribing for people in pain, free from unnecessary interference which frustrates this objective.
To promote education regarding pain relief for health professionals, governments, the general public as well as those afflicted with severe and/or chronic pain.
To promote research into all aspects of pain treatment.