And this is how we pain patients die. 😓
How many more lives will be lost to #OpioidHysteria and the #GreatOpioidLie?
People in pain are dying. We are losing hope. #NoneOfThisIsOK
#PainKills
Carla died fighting for herself and for all of us.
She was ridiculed by medical 'professionals' and begged the CDC director for help.
#NoneOfThisIsOK
#PainKills
#OpioidsSaveLives
#PainKills
#OpioidHysteria creates bias in medical practice, clouds judgement, and ends in poor or no treatment resulting in suffering and/or death for those in pain.
So many of us have illnesses that are referred to as 'suicide diseases'.
With proper pain control and symptomatic management, most can continue breathing, continue living.
Existing in pain day after day, minute by minute, year after year is often unendureable.
#NoneOfThisIsOk
Pain patients with severe illness know that opioids work. Yet we are gaslit, told our real and lived experiences are not real.
We are told to accept our fate, find joy in our pain, be mindful and life will magically get better.
Those doing this to us are monsters.
And for all those who pass judgement, who think it won't happen to them...
People in pain are labeled paid Pharma shills, or 'addicts' who 'just want their drugs'. This is often done by people who proclaim they are about reducing #stigma.
Yeah, right.
#NoneOfThisIsOk
The lies and misinformation about the so called '#opioidcrisis' has been rampant for years now.
'Real' numbers are likely FAR LESS than even 12,000 when we factor in intentional suicide, smuggled narcotics, stolen, etc...
Yet here we are, no meaningful changes for pts in pain.
It's almost impossible not to lose hope when you are drowning and you know no one is coming to save you.
In fact, they dropped a message by plane telling you that will take years to send help and to just keep treading water. 😔😪
#NoneOfThisIsOk
#OpioidsSaveLives
#OpioidHysteria
Dawn Anderson, another CPP who has fallen due to the #GreatOpioidLie. acsh.org/news/2019/03/1…
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