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911 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨Wow very telling PLEASE READ AND COMMENT statnews.com/pharmalot/2015…

So even though they KNEW GUIDELINES WOULD BE ADOPTED WIDELY THEY DID IT ANYWAY

So their excuse “We didn’t know that doctors etc would interpret and implement as law” oh yes you did! You are Murderers MURDERERS

@lpray18 @cshel0607

The Drug Enforcement Administration and some state medical boards are also using this dosage guidance in ways that were never intended, such as a proxy or red flag to identify physician “over-prescribers” without considering the medical conditions or needs of these physicians’

patients. As a result, some physicians who specialize in pain management are leaving their practices, while others are tapering their patients off of opioids, solely out of fear of losing their licenses or criminal charges.

When appropriately prescribed opioids are denied, patients whose pain has been well-managed by them may experience medical decline, lose the ability to work and function, and resort to suicide. Denying opioids to patients who have relied on them — sometimes for years —

may cause some to turn to street drugs, thereby increasing their risk of overdose.

Among those reporting disruption or abandonment, many experienced adverse health consequences (55 percent) as well as hopelessness or thinking about suicide (62 percent) as a result. In other surveys, physicians said that they were prescribing fewer

opioids or ceasing treatment of pain patients altogether because of regulatory scrutiny, even in cases where they believed that doing so would harm their patients.

Some physicians are also using the CDC’s dosage thresholds, or simply their patients’ use of opioids, as a reason for abandoning them. Abandoning pain patients out of fear of regulatory reprisal may violate a physician’s ethical duty to place a patient’s welfare

above his or her own self-interest. If serious harm results from abandoning a patient’s care, it may also serve as a basis for discipline or malpractice claims.

Now they are saying they didn’t know it would be misapplied PLEASEEEE BS