When patients snd MDs blame congress, Trump, and Biden for what’s happening to them as far as the #WarOnDoctors and #PainPatientGenocide, my question is this: If these leaders aren’t trained medically, who is giving them info that’s caused these actions to be taken?
Wouldn’t we be better off systematically going through testimonies before congress and opioid committees to see who exactly deceived them and go after them? I’ve been doing this and have found most of the “experts” are actually rich now from testifying in the opioid lawsuits.
A great example is #ChrisChristie. While he didn’t testify in the #opioid lawsuits, he was on the white-house opioid commission and now sits on the board of #Pacira making at least $800,000 a year to help with their anti-opioid #PlanAgainstPain campaign and lobbying for rx limits
#Pacira settled a lawsuit this year for a few million for paying MDs to pimp their product. COIs are being ignored in these situations, yet are the driver of the actions of those testifying that pain meds should be prohibited due to addx. No one cares unless they’re benefitting.
#AndrewKolodny, #AnnaLembke, #CalebAlexander , have all testified that pain meds should be only used for cancer or end-of-life, and have all made very large amounts of money testifying against both MDs that treat pain, and #pharma companies. Yet our gov’t ignores these facts.
While all of these players (and there are many more) continue their false narrative that pads their pockets, the reality is both #addiction patients , and #pain patients suffer tremendously due to the prohibition and stigma thrust upon us by this demonization of substances.
Look at this heartbreaking article about ODs. If only the #cdc @CDCInjury would have told the truth in their public campaign about addiction and overdoses and especially illicit fent pills, these kids may still be alive. They are directly responsible.
Our country is being POISONED and do you see any public service announcements about these illicit #fentpills ?
#Shatterproof has been one of the most devastating groups as far as the demonization of full-agonist #pain meds. #GaryMendell made it his mission, even though he has no medical b/ground, to lobby for barriers and using #PDMP #surveillance to go after prescribers of pain meds.
Meanwhile, patients crying out for help have been shunned and labeled #pharmashills and #careerpatients by ppl like #AndrewKolodny. I can’t comprehend the disassociation it would take to be so cruel to patients in such distress. Yet this man continues to be given interviews.
A day will come when enough ppl have suffered, that questions will start to be asked by the right ppl. I plan on being there to answer them => along with an army of ppl just like me who were forced to take up activism in order to save their lives and those that treat them. #ipp

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At some point, ppl started seeing what was happening in ww2 and standing up against it. This is no different.
This is the new American T-4 program, the #HHS and #DOJ specifically stigmatizing amd elimimating sick, vulnerable, and disabled ppl and targeting the MDs to don’t go along with the killing.
When the DOJ and DEA raid a MDs office, those patients are forced out of care. They are deemed high risk b/c of their association w/the MD that was raided and no new MDs will take them. B/c they are dependent on medication, they’re thrown into a horrific biological state.
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Is there any other class of medications that are routinely reduced by a #pharmacy/ #pbm? It just baffles me how discriminatory policies that put barriers in place are allowed to continue. How do Mds feel about being second-guessed constantly by these companies? #DEACenteredCare
It makes sense for a #PharmD to call an MD for a script that THEY (using the years of schooling and clinical judgment that results) deem questionable. What doesn’t make sense is mandating this and using it as an excuse to deny patients their RXs. It’s cruel.
Also, what you don’t see here is once the PA is sent in, it will automatically be rejected. And when the second one is sent, that one will also be rejected. They will give different reasons each time. The process starts all over again when the appeal to the actual ins. co begins.
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