I've seen at least 5 new pts today discuss being abandoned. Please consider filling this out. Pt outcome isn't being recorded or measured, so we are trying to at least record some of them. docs.google.com/forms/d/1ju_jK…

A (Badly Needed) Math Lesson For Senator Joe Manchin acsh.org/news/2023/10/0…

Excellent! I very much appreciate the careful effort behind this petition. I hope the FDA will do its job. NarxCare is doing enormous harm to patients and medical practice.

Really American 🇺🇸 More of This?!!😳

⁩⁦⁦Nicholas Goldberg: Agreed,1st degree murder charges for assisting dying in terminal/untreatable illness isn't justified. But, stopping cruel denial of pain relief would more effectively reduce the desire for suicide in the chronically ill & dying. apple.news/AojNgeVOzRtiUU…

Doctors Prescribing to Their Patients Did Not Create the US Opioid Crisis | American Council on Science and Health acsh.org/news/2023/01/0…

#ChronicPain Next! All of you diagnosed with ME/CFS or just chronic fatigue syndrome and had experience with opiate pain treatment - did it work? please retweet

medscape.com/viewarticle/98… Once again, disingenuous zealots using correlational data to claim causality for 'stemming the prescription opioid crisis'. This is the worst example of bad science out there, and is morally reprehensible.

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Subjective - Today’s story comes from Idries Shah’s book, A Veiled Gazelle.
#teachingstories #sufi
bit.ly/ISFstoryofthed…

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“Sarin is usually deadly, but lead researcher Dr Robert Haley said the gas that soldiers were exposed to in Iraq was diluted, and so not fatal.

‘But it was enough to make people ill if they were genetically predisposed to illness from it’”

#gulfwarillness #GulfWarSyndromr

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Scientists “have pinned the blame on the nerve agent sarin, which was released into the air when caches of Iraqi chemical weapons were bombed.

Many veterans have complained of a range of debilitating symptoms which developed after their service.”

#GulfWarSyndrome #GWI #GWS

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“US scientists say they have discovered what caused thousands of soldiers who served in the 1991 Gulf War to fall sick with mysterious symptoms”

bbc.com/news/health-61…

“For decades the cause of #GulfWar Syndrome has remained elusive”

#Gulfwarillness #GWS #GWI #GulfWar

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You can never have enough Nasrudin stories! Here are 109 additional bon mots of wisdom, wrapped in hilarity. Collected with the help of amateurs and scholars worldwide, this volume is sure to delight.

idriesshahfoundation.org/books/the-subt…

dovepress.com/getfile.php?fi… As promised, the article indicting anti-opioid zealots for playing 'fast and loose' with the truth...and with the data. With esteemed friends/colleagues Jeffrey Fudin, Jeff Bettinger, PharmD, & Check Your Tube Station 🇬🇭. PLEASE RETWEET - this needs to be disseminated.

Join us tomorrow at 10am PST / 1pm ET / 6pm BST for a discussion of 'Unrest,' the award winning documentary on ME/CFS by Jennifer Brea🦒. The panel is being hosted by #MEAction and BODY POLITIC to discuss how better understanding #MECFS can help those with #LongCovid . See you there!

If anyone wants to know what a real healer looks like, see picture below. We CPPs have a few good Advocates from the HC profession, this Man is a great one:
johnflannery.medium.com/this-nations-r…

An Open Letter to National Public Radio and Steve Inskeep linkedin.com/pulse/open-let… via LinkedIn

Fast Five Quiz: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome reference.medscape.com/viewarticle/96… via @medscape Based on 2021 guidelines. Most taking quiz got diagnosis ?s right. But not so for treatment—more picked GET (53%) over sensory protection (16%) & SSRI's for sleep (48%) rather than trazodone (29%).

Is this a joke? Now they say meds from a dr are safe? Why do they think this is happening ?