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Urge the PA General Assembly to Oppose the Methadone Accountability Package
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    1. The PA State Senate (+ 29 others)
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      • The PA State Senate
      • State Sen. Shirley Kitchen (PA-003)
      • State Sen. Raphael Musto (PA-014)
      • State Sen. Michael Waugh (PA-028)
      • State Sen. Wayne Fontana (PA-042)
      • State Sen. John Rafferty (PA-044)
      • State Sen. John Eichelberger (PA-030)
      • State Sen. Edwin Erickson (PA-026)
      • State Sen. Jane Orie (PA-040)
      • State Sen. Michael Stack (PA-005)
      • State Sen. Donald White (PA-041)
      • State Sen. Bob Mensch (PA-024)
      • State Sen. LeAnna Washington (PA-004)
      • State Sen. Vincent Hughes (PA-007)
      • State Sen. Michael O'Pake (PA-011)
      • State Sen. Stewart Greenleaf (PA-012)
      • State Sen. Lisa Boscola (PA-018)
      • State Sen. Lisa Baker (PA-020)
      • State Sen. Mary White (PA-021)
      • State Sen. Patricia Vance (PA-031)
      • State Sen. Richard Kasunic (PA-032)
      • State Sen. John Wozniak (PA-035)
      • State Sen. Jay Costa (PA-043)
      • State Sen. Jane Earll (PA-049)
      • State Sen. Gene Yaw (PA-023)
      • State Sen. Richard Alloway (PA-033)
      • State Sen. Kim Ward (PA-039)
      • State Sen. Elder Vogel (PA-047)
      • State Sen. Daylin Leach (PA-017)
      • State Senator PA 25th District (Sen. Joe Scarnati PA-025)
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About this Petition Petition Letter
Why This Is Important

A package of legislation was recently introduced in the state senate, called the Methadone Accountability Package. These bills and a resolution include S.B. 1293, S.B. 1294 - the Methadone Addiction Prevention and Treatment Act, S.B. 1376, S.B. 1377, S.B. 1378, S.B. 1382, S.B. 1383, and S.R. 348. This package of legislation would interfere with the rights of doctors and patients to determine how long treatment is needed. Enacting this law would drive many methadone patients to return to using illegal opioids, like heroin. Please support Pennsylvanians right to medical freedom by signing a petition urging senators in the PA General Assembly to oppose this package of legislation.

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The Methadone Accountability Package

Greetings,

I am writing to you today asking for you to please oppose the Methadone Accountability Package, which includes S.B. 1293, S.B. 1294 the Methadone Addiction Prevention and Treatment Act, S.B. 1376, S.B. 1377, S.B. 1378, S.B. 1382, S.B. 1383, and S.R. 348. This package of legislation would allow the state government to interfere in the length of addiction treatments that use methadone. It would interfere with the rights of doctors and patients to determine how long treatment is needed. It is not the place of the legislature to dictate how long a doctor may treat their patients. Methadone maintenance has proven efficacy in the treatment of opioid addiction and it is up to the doctor and patient to decide how long the treatment should last. Placing artificial limits on the length of addiction treatments using methadone is unproven and would result in many of the patients returning to the black market to illegally procure opioid drugs. This would cause an increase in crime and addiction. Please do not support this intrusive, unscientific, health care package of legislation.

Petition Text:
Whereas: Recently introduced legislation called the Methadone Accountability Package, S.B. 1293, S.B. 1294, S.B. 1376, S.B. 1377, S.B. 1378, S.B. 1382, S.B. 1383, and S.R. 348, would allow the state government to interfere in the length of addiction treatments that use methadone.

Whereas: The Methadone Accountability Package would interfere with the rights of doctors and patients to determine how long treatment is needed and how treatment should be given.

Whereas: We the undersigned believe allowing the state legislature to dictate how long a doctor may treat their patients is not the proper role of government.

Whereas: Methadone maintenance has proven efficacy in the treatment of opioid addiction and, we the undersigned believe, should be left to the doctor and patient to decide how long the treatment should last.

Whereas: Placing artificial limits on the length of addiction treatments using methadone is unproven and not backed by medical evidence.

Whereas: The Methadone Accountability Package, by limiting the length of methadone therapy for use in addiction treatment, would cause an increase in crime and addiction. Many patients who would be prematurely forced off of methadone treatment may resort to illegally procuring opioid drugs on the black market. The relapsing addicts may also resort to crime to fund the large expense of maintaining an illicit opioid addiction.

Therefore, we ask that you please do not support any of the legislation that is part of the Methadone Accountability Package, a truly intrusive, unscientific, package of health care legislation.

[Your name]