Still struggling with the wording of this invitation. ‘#COVID-19 has exacerbated the raging #opioid crisis driven by the nation’s more than 50 million #pain suffers......’. I have contacted both @RepJudyChu & @RepWalorski office to express my concern & to 1/
attempt to understand why the blame for the #opioidepidemic seemed to be placed at the feet of those that have #chronicpain. In the past years the # of #opioid pain medication prescriptions have plummeted yet rates of overdose climbed. Many individuals with #chronicpain 2/
who benefitted from treatment from #opioids have been pulled off & abandoned; their #QoL decreasing & suffering increasing. My kids & my husband were/are part of the 50 million that experience/experienced #chronic pain due to #hereditarypancreatitis & #pancreascancer 3/
THEY did not cause this epidemic. THEY deserve/deserved treatment for their pain. @RepWalorski & @RepJudyChu I’d love the opportunity to speak to you are our journey & how such narrative, as expressed in this invitation as well as other actions such as #CDC guidelines 4/
and the misapplication of these guidelines by other governmental entities as well as private entities, clinics and hospitals have harmed those like my loved ones. I have never heard back from either of your offices 5/
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