THIS TOO SHALL PASS

   This country is a ship afloat, dead in the water! When laws are passed insuring certain rights, how can the government pass new laws which totally ignore the previous ones? I found in my papers a "patients bill of rights" circa 1998 then came "HIPPA" guaranteeing doctor-patient confidentiality. So how in the world are they able, by law, to instal computers which track every prescription a physican writes to a patient for pain manegment? I understand there is and always will  be a problem with abuse of one kind or another. However the vast majority of people needing pain medication are not abusing the one thing that can give them relife and a quality life! The differance between being an addect and being physically dependet is vast! pain meds are to a person in pain no different than insulin to a dibetic.Just as blood surar to high or low, pain will kill, rapid heart beat elevating the blood pressure or retricting one ability to take a breth.   PAIN MEDICATION IS NOT A CHOICE, it keeps us alive!  To be treated as criminals, guilty before being charged because we want to live is unquestionable!        As I eluluded in beginning; how can the governor, and USA government put in palce somthing that is against the law? violating our doctor - patient rights to confidentiality.  again betaryed by doctors and government!