Direct the DEA to not reclassify hydrocodone-containing medications as Schedule II.

Making it harder for those with chronic illnesses such as Crohn's and Fibromyalgia to obtain the pain medications they need to sustain any kind of tolerable quality of life does nothing to prevent accidental overdoses. It increases costs for the sickest of our citizens, and has the effect of stigmatizing both the medications and those who take them. Oxycontin has always been Schedule II and it has done nothing to prevent its abuse. People who want to misuse drugs will do so no matter what their classification; punishing the millions who take these meds responsibly, and who need them to live is abuse. The chronically ill have already been betrayed by their own bodies, and now their government as well. The DEA must not reclassify these medications as Schedule II. http://youtu.be/6UyPlF66KME