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I live with chronic pain and had to sign an opiod contract.  As a young, surburban, stay-at-home mom, the drug abuse culture seems far removed from my life.  I resent being lumped together with criminals and drug addicts.  I sincerely wish that I had diabetes or some other chronic disease where the medications required do not bring on the social stigma or the continual semi-suspicion that I feel I'm always under.  Do people with high cholesterol have to take UA's to measure their medication levels to make sure they're not abusing it?  To me, my pain meds mean no more to me than insulin or even Tylenol.  They just enable me to live my life with a reduction of my debilitating symptoms.  The difference between my bottle of Tylenol and my pain meds, is that I lock my pain meds up.  Always.