REMEMBER THOSE IN PAIN

Re: Bills would create system to track prescription drugs | April 21

I grant you that there are plenty of dangerous drugs on the market. I
don't know the answer to the question, but I do know that people in
chronic pain will hasten to die quicker because they can no longer
get the medicine they need to make life bearable. It is a shame that
these folks are not in the equation.

I have seen the Drug Enforcement Administration up close, and it's
not working to your benefit. But there are solutions to the problem.
For example, have doctors double-check their patients. I do know that
taking sick and hurting persons' medication away will not help. It
will speed up the death rate.

Please don't kill us any faster. Too much salt can kill you; too much
aspirin can kill you. Let's use our heads. The old knee-jerk reaction
— do something even if it's wrong — won't work here.

Charles H. Eure, St. Petersburg