We spend BILLIONS on failed policies-The #DrugWar , supporting other countries, doing eternal cosmetic fixes to road/ #infrastructure instead of actually fixing them. #Healthcare is beyond broken, no #livingwage .
We're frogs in a pot and the water is bubbling.
#PainCareCrisis

About 10% of people with Sjogren’s have either axial spondylitis or psoriatic arthritis. Important to keep in mind for patients with inflammatory back pain and other symptoms.

#ChronicPain kills. When not treated, your entire, body goes into distress. Blood pressure increases, breathing gets labored, your organs begin to shut down. Do not tell me different. I am exhausted by the absolute negligence of our government, healthcare providers. Barbaric!

Too bad there’s no accountability for spreading medical misinformation.

Dr. Anna Lembke and 'Dopamine Nation' youtu.be/L_R_uVbo7Qc?fe… via YouTube Bev Schechtman🇮🇱 Chad D. Kollas (he/him) Andrea Anderson
Illicit fentanyl is killing people

Government Data Refute the Notion That Overprescribing Caused the 'Opioid Crisis'
#opioid crisis #opioid #dea #medications #overprescribing reason.com/2024/04/15/gov…

This just came out. Ohio opioid tool kit Meditech. They use the CDC guidelines, opioid risk tool , pain contracts, and more to determine if people should get opioids for surgical procedures, and other things. Do they use updated ORT and CDc GL? healthdatamanagement.com/articles/infor…

The anti-opioid movement was always about money.

It’s nearly impossible to get mainstream media to discuss the untreated pain epidemic probably because most are owned by the recovery industry

However, I’m starting to see a shift

wpri.com/rhode-show/the…

Government Data Refute the Notion That Overprescribing Caused the 'Opioid Crisis'

Richard Lawhern informative article in reason

@NAAG DEA HQ CDC CDC Injury Center

reason.com/2024/04/15/gov… via reason

CDC Data Refute the Idea That Overprescribing Caused the ‘Opioid Crisis’ reason.com/2024/04/15/gov…

BINGO!…

It can't be said any more plainly.
At this point we absolutely know that those in power who continue to support deadly opioid prescribing policies are either willfully ignorant or corrupt.
#PainCareCrisis #opioids #IronLawofProhibition

People Prescribed Opioids for Chronic Pain Face Multiple Barriers to Ongoing Opioid Therapy: Baseline Characteristics from the VALUE National, Observational, Study - The Journal of Pain jpain.org/article/S1526-…

I had a nurse threaten me with repeat phone calls….

I’m sorry I disappeared again, my disease is completely out of control limiting my ability to do everything. Of course, I would not feel so wretched I were permitted medically necessary pain medication. I promise I haven’t forgotten Spaces of activism, please allow me time or…

This is the maze we're now lost in due to 'opioid policies'.
Told to 'be patient', that changing policy will 'take time'.
We are literally being ground to dust beneath the wheels of political injustice and corruption.
#PainCareCrisis #RxMedicinesSaveLives #ChronicPain

I postponed my pudendal nerve blocks this time because I had a nagging phobia about not being able to wake up from the anesthesia…

But the pelvic pain from the pudendal nerves on my left side is escalating so sharply and so fast that not waking up from the anesthesia is no…

🚨Join us. CSI:OPIOIDs speaks United Suicide Survivors International Tuesday 4/16 8pm EDT, on Zoom
Investigating Suicide in the Wake of Prescription Opioid Reduction with lived experience speakers and Dr. Stefan Kertesz
with: Jim Elliott (advisor, who lost his brother, Danny…

I'm not doing well right now, sorry my advocacy efforts are at a minimum lately.
Doing my best...
#PainCareCrisis #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #pwME

Unreported conflict of interest?

My article with co-authors, Bev Schechtman🇮🇱 & Life Is Art Carrie is now available via free access for a limited time at: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ivLL5P-aBhQ….

©2024. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc…

The authors have posted their response, which - predictably - fails to acknowledge evidence for LTOT effectiveness and deflects on our other critical points.
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Response to Kollas. Letter to the editor, “problems with opioids beyon... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…