Can I sue the CDC for pain and suffering, or to get my pain medications back?

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Since the CDC has implemented their "recommendation" to limit the prescribing of opiates, my Pain Management physician has cut my narcotic pain medication in half. As a result, I am in constant severe pain in my upper and lower back, legs, hands and feet due to arthritis and post back surgery nerve damage. The only thing that helped me live a semi-normal, semi-functioning life was the opioids. Now I can barely get out of bed in the morning, and spend most days sitting in my recliner with a heating pad on my back. I have always been very active, and this is literally killing me.

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Eliot Wolf ·
You have no standing to sue the CDC. Call your legislator to get the recommendation/law changed.
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Christopher Steuart ·
The source of pain management regulation is state medical boards or agencies that regulate the practice of medicine. The opiate scores that patients are allowed (morphine equivalents) have been pushed down year by year, and doctors who prescribe in excess of the level allowed are subject to a high level of scrutiny. So although it is the CDC that writes the recommendations, it is the state that actually imposes the restriction. So if you were going to sue somebody it would be a state board or committee. I don't think you would have much likelihood of success, but if you wanted to pursue it, it would be to attack the state regulations or directives under the administrative code.
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