Vet Denied Pain Pills After Testing Positive For Pot
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The disabled Vietnam veteran is suffering from stage four lung cancer, but he’s being refused pain management because he tested positive for marijuana.
“I went in to get a refill on my pain medication and they refused to let me have it, because I have marijuana in my blood,” Gary Dixon, Vietnam veteran.
Gary Dixon is a 65-year-old disabled Vietnam veteran. While in Vietnam he was exposed to Agent Orange.
“I hurt, and I hurt from something I got fighting for my country,” says Dixon.
Now he’s got stage four lung cancer, doesn’t have much time left to live and readily admits to smoking marijuana.
Tuesday morning Dixon and his wife Debbie drove up to Topeka from Fort Scott like they always do for Dixon’s stroke group therapy and to pick up his pain medicine. But this time his visit went different. He had to take a urine test and sign an opiate consent form.
“I said, ‘if she was wanting to see if I still smoke marijuana, I said I do’,” Dixon says.
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