I've had extremely severe nerve pain from my back and everything down to the bottom of my feet for 27+1/2 years. It took 13 years to find the right med combination, 180 mg.'s of methadone, and 75 mcg.'s of fentanyl. I was pain free for over 13 years! FREE of pain!! Until this opioid BS started. Now I'm on 80 mg.'s of methadone, and 3,000 mg.'s of robaxin. Back in pain again, and the doctor that has been prescribing me these meds no longer wants to prescribe any opioids. I never once ever had one thought that I was near an overdose, or that I was in any danger. BS propaganda!! If you follow your physician's directions, you won't die. I was with the U of Chicago. I also have Dysphagia, and COPD because of it. It is well managed with many neb treatments during my long day. You say pain pump, I have one, how about you getting one too?? I've found a doctor who will implant the pump, but he doesn't do the monthly maintenance, you know, supply the meds. I have Blue Cross Community, that's Illinois medicaid. I have looked and looked for someone who will supply the meds, but nothing is what I've come up with. I cannot even make contact(get a response) with the doctor who's been prescribing the methadone. I don't want to die, at least not this way, but my plans are to scale way down on my nebulizer treatments until pneumonia sets in, then stop all treatments and die. Believe me, it's not what I want. But without help, I am lost as to what else to do. No one has shown the least little bit of wanting to help. Tragic!