Virginia Senator Chafin acting badly!

I had a Virginia patient that is a friend of mine keep in contact with me regularly, and he has gotten this petition most of its signatures. He told me another Virginia patient had contacted Senator Chafin on the subject of this bill and was told even if the governor vetoes it, the medical board was going to make it a law anyway. I believe that is illegal, and as far as I know new amendments to laws have to go through the legislature. Bills that are vetoed have to go back through, and even ones that the Governor amends have to be agreed on by the house and senate. This bill is dangerous people, and it will hurt a lot of people. Thousands of addicts will lose treatment, and some will die. If they go after a drug that has been deemed safer than methadone by the people that write the federal guidelines has to be taken daily at an otp clinic, what are they going to do next? They will go after methadone and then a lot more patients are in trouble. I can understand prescription limitations as I have said, but allow people that have a documented allergy on file to keep getting a prescription. These clinics though need to be allowed to continue to dispense it in take homes, the patients that get take homes cannot afford to travel 50 plus miles one way every day. Senator Chafin said there was 6 cases of diverted buprenorphine last year and that's the reason they are going after it. He didn't mention how many suboxone cases there were, and I bet half those cases were suboxone if not all of them. I bet it came from patients that went to a pain clinic, and I would put money that none of these so called "cases" came from a patient that was in a federally licensed otp. Guys I appreciate all the support you have given to this petition, but to those of you that see the email you will about this update if you could share it to any site, or by word of mouth that would be great. We need to quite putting politicians in office that are going to further stigmatize and create barriers to access for drug addiction and opioid dependence. These patients are people too, and just because they suffer from a disease doesn't make them any less of a human.