Instead of doubling down on the belief that all patients are better off without pain meds, as these “experts” have been doing for 5+ years now, why not acknowledge there ARE some patients for which long term opioid therapy is beneficial?
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How much would it actually harm opioid lawsuits to admit this?
Why aren’t we worth it, whatever the cost?
Many patients were tapered or cut off years ago and are still unable to find adequate relief even after spending thousands on any alternative that might possibly help.
Why aren’t we worth it, whatever the cost?
Many patients were tapered or cut off years ago and are still unable to find adequate relief even after spending thousands on any alternative that might possibly help.
Many went from working and enjoying life to now praying daily for death and barely surviving on disability payments alone.
To continue focusing on reducing prescribing is to ignore real life experience and suffering of a portion of disabled who have been w/o pain meds for years.
To continue focusing on reducing prescribing is to ignore real life experience and suffering of a portion of disabled who have been w/o pain meds for years.
To ignore the reality for an entire subset of population in any other aspect of American life would be unthinkable and the outrage would fill the airwaves.
Yet we are further stigmatized, humiliated, and ridiculed only so a group of “experts” profiting off of opioid lawsuits?
Yet we are further stigmatized, humiliated, and ridiculed only so a group of “experts” profiting off of opioid lawsuits?
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