Due to the national opioid crisis, last year the Virginia Board of Medicine put emergency guideline/rules in place for doctors to follow when they prescribe opioids to all of their patients.  Those guidelines include limits on dosage and long acting opioids needed by sickle cell patients, but they make NO rule exception for persons suffering from the pain crisis of sickle cell. 

Please make Sickle Cell Disease an exception to the guidelines. 

Thank you,

Kimberly F. Johnson