我写这篇文章是出于对阿片类药物危机的关注，并且可以让您了解到有一种可以治疗慢性疼痛患者并避免更多人沉迷于止痛药的方式。这种做法被称为穴位注射疗法（PIT），这是一种在减轻疼痛方面非常有效的针灸形式。 由于卑诗省管理局合并过程以及COVID-19大流行在卫生部造成了压力，这阻止了内阁批准卑诗省中医针灸师管理局（BC）的更新执业范围。 中医和针灸从业者被迫停止对PIT患者进行治疗，我想请您帮助我们的针灸师就其治疗范围批准此项服务。 我了解您和您的政府面临着许多紧迫的要求，但是我感到除非采取专项行动来帮助患有慢性疼痛的人，否则我们将发现更多的人沉迷于芬太尼或其他阿片类药物并给我们的医疗保健系统带来更多的费用。 感谢您的宝贵时间，我们期待您的回复。 I write because of my concern about the opioid crisis and to make you aware of a tool that can treat patients with chronic pain and avoid more people becoming addicted to pain meds. This practice is referred to as Point Injection Therapy (PIT), a form of Acupuncture that is remarkably effective in alleviating pain. There is a holdup at the Ministry of Health due to the BC health professions college amalgamation process, along with COVID-19, that has prevented the updated scope of practice for the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists (BC) from being approved by Cabinet. TCM & Acupuncture practitioners have been forced to stop treating their patients with PIT and I am asking that you please help our acupuncturists have this service approved for their scope of therapy. I appreciate there are many pressing demands on you and your government, but I feel unless there is significant action taken to help people with chronic pain, we will experience more people being addicted to fentanyl or other opioids, and a greater cost to our healthcare system. Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.

我现在作为一位看到中医针灸从业人员为我极大地缓解痛苦的患者给您诚恳的写这封信。最近有人告诉我，由于我的针灸师的执业范围尚未得到政府的批准，我的一些医疗服务将被强行停止。 这真的让我很沮丧，因为我的治疗帮助了我能够做自己想做的事情，并且帮助了我可以继续返回工作。当我的针灸师治疗我时，我的痛苦就消失了。我不明白为什么政府没有签署他们的执业范围申请以便我可以继续获得对我有用的治疗服务。 卑诗的中医针灸从业人员迫切需要您的帮助以便卫生部在今年晚些时候的健康专业管理局合并发生之前批准他们的的执业范围更新。我不想使用有可能会使我上瘾的药物。像我这样的患者们没有办法继续等待了了无期的治疗。我们现在的选择非常有限，这些使我们感到非常的痛苦。 感谢您的宝贵时间，我们期待您的回复。 I write as a patient who sees a TCM & Acupuncture practitioner who helps me tremendously with my pain. I was recently told that there are some treatments I have been getting that my Acupuncturist isn’t allowed to do anymore unless their scope update gets approved by the BC government. This really upsets me because my treatments have helped me be able to do the things I want and have helped me be able to keep working. My pain goes away when my Acupuncturist treats me. I don’t understand why the government isn’t signing the scope so I can keep getting the treatments that work for me. TCM & Acupuncture practitioners in BC urgently need your help to get their scope of practice update approved by the Ministry of Health before the allied health profession colleges amalgamate later this year. I don’t want to use drugs that I might get addicted to. Patients like me can’t keep waiting for treatment. Our health is suffering and our options are limited. Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.