Thread by @purplemamabear

From #CDC website ‘Improving the ways opioids are prescribed through clinical practice guidelines can ensure patients have access to safer, more effective chronic pain treatment while reducing risk of opioid use disorder’. What I have seen as a parent of children w #chronicpain 1

as well as an advocate for those with #hereditarypancreatitis is increased stigma, lack of access to a medication that has worked for many, malpractice and deaths due to #suicidedue2pain. I find it inane that physicians will prescribe essential oils (lavender) to a child 2

in the midst of a pancreatitis attack for fear of addiction. #Untreatedpain and under treated pain has significant consequences particularly in children. The harm done since the release of the guidelines has been significant YET actions to address these harms and 3

reset the narrative has been 2 slow. Pain care in the US is abysmal. A close look at the system as well as development of other effective treatment issues should have occurred prior to anything. My kids benefit from #opioid #pain medications. I have absolutely NO 4

issue, nor do they in utilizing a med w less risk that is as effective - for them we have not found one. I have exhausted my bank account trying to find options. I am frustrated at the dragging off feet by governmental agencies to right the harms done. The info coming out 5

is stigma filled and biased. Action is necessary. #DoNoHarm #Balanced 6