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Urine Drug Testing is a flashpoint among many pain care patients, who resent being forced to submit, pay for procedure that can only DENY care, with no benefits, no medical necessity.

Certain advocates like Dr. Michael Schatman, have alienated patients with his UDT support.
Dr Schatman's online advocacy is frequently attacked for his promotion of UDT.

AND many patients join in with him, to denigrate those fighting this civil-rights intrusion into our care. We're told we are threatening a movement.

Yet, there's an elephant in the room...
UDT has become a criminal enterprise, racketeering on a scale equal to Mafia-style infrastructure.

Crooked execs, politicians, provider orgs, doctors, scheming to rob insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and patients of Hundreds Of Millions of Dollars.

Let's tour how CRIMINAL it is!
GOP politicians love UDT, have long pushed them as a way to save money, by using them as an access denial tool for entitlement programs.

Yet, science shows them to be wasteful for the poorest of us.

Abusive.
Discrimination.

A SUCKAGE on state coffers!

forbes.com/sites/judyston…
Of course, GOP politicians are cheerleaders when it comes to making poor sacrifice civil rights for profits.

Our beloved DNC partisan advocate for UDT falls right in line with crooked Republican capitalist cronies!
Politicians, fat-cat executives, and Pain Management Physicians also see pain care as a profiteering tool. That big sucking sound is more GOP profiteering!

In TN, it destroyed pain care!

khn.org/news/federal-s…
In Washington State, UDT fraud indictments for robbery of federal healthcare programs...

justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/b…
In Dr. Schatman's home state, schemes that would make Mob Boss Gambino jealous!

darkintelligencegroup.com/the-dark-repor…
In Alaska, those frosty piss cups helped this doctor racketeer a cool $8 Million from Medicaid fraud!

ktva.com/story/41496515…
In New Jersey, a UDT scam was embedded in a fraudulent prescription compounding scheme, scamming state healthcare programs of over $4 million dollars.

courierpostonline.com/story/news/201…
It's so bad, there are Law Firms dedicated to defending those indicted of drug test corruption and UDT Medicare / Medicaid scams!

federal-lawyer.com/urine-toxicolo…
Good thing too.

As there is also new FEDERAL law and Department Of Justice enforcement to stamp out UDT fraud!

The first 'opioids kickback' indictment?
Urine Drug Testing Fraud.

natlawreview.com/article/first-…
The first guilty plea under that new DOJ enforcement was rendered.

These defendants, now FELONS, will be sentenced next month (May 1st).

May their time in PRISON be filled with joy.

jdsupra.com/legalnews/firs…
I'm still perplexed why the @ACLU has not stepped in on behalf of pain care patients!

If they don't believe them to be constitutional in the workplace, and see them as a waste...

...why be silent as they are used against elderly and disabled?

aclu.org/report/drug-te…
This article expounds on the UNCONSTITUTIONAL nature of UDT as workplace tool...

medium.com/@jamesjordan_3…
In WORKPLACE, the screen is simple. Either drugs are present, or absent.
PERIOD.

For pain care, its NOT that simple.
ONE test cannot do the job, it requires a battery of expensive tests!

Not all providers have knowledge to interpret results.

And as seen above many don't care.
Pain Care UDT must evaluate use of prescribed drugs, and absence of other drugs, including non-opioids.

Metabolite breakdown, elimination, interactions with OTC meds, food...multiple tests all introduce error.

And it's not the LAB evaluating results.

asra.com/asra-news/arti…
All of this, taxpayers pay for. In a time when medical care pushed to extremes, labs overloaded, and in-person care replaced with telemed, an advocate pushing MORE UDT needs to be called out.

Stop corruption.
Stop waste.
Stop discrimination.

STOP UDT.

pbs.org/newshour/amp/h…
This will NOT be my last words on this subject.

This is the beginning of a series.

And a push for civil-rights litigation to RIP it out of medical care completely.

Those invested in pushing UDT, and refusing to let it go?

You are being warned.
And will be exposed.
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