Thread by @CanadaPain

Yes there are appropriate uses of oxy. Therapeutic RX of opioids for acute, urgent, and chronic care leads to dx of OUD in: 0.6% of the time. Yes, I said 0.6%.

My health care system discriminates, misdiagnosis, stigmatizes, shames, & med abandons me bc someone else misuses drugs

https://twitter.com/bayesianboy/status/1374087393842757635

Torturous 18yrs in bed: undermed. & non-functional (wrong opioid); overmed. and non-functional (wrong opioid), and torturously refused pain mgt, leading to hosp as I became suicidal when med abandoned and was denied all pain tx. This is not addiction, weakness, or moral failing.

In '11, I found the doc who saved my life, Ellen Thompson. She RX'd the right opioid at the right dose (for me). I stabilized, and began to find life again, with gratitude. Between low dose oxy, 20 weekly NBI's, and a system that believed rather than destroyed me? I improved.

On stable dose for 4yrs, no problems. In 2015, I went in and requested a 25% decrease - proviso: if it didn't work, we would re-establish original script, no questions.

I've been on lower stable dose for 6 years, and ready to discuss decreasing again. Except, I don't trust my HC

I founded a grassroots support service for people with chronic, degenerative, and terminal conditions with pain. I began being invited to speak.

I consult with ODPRN,original member of OODO. I work with Chief Coroner, PHO, Heads of Anaesthiosology, world renouned researchers...

In 2018 I met w Fed MOH, Ginette Petitpas Taylor for small group round table "discussion" advocating for National Pain Strategy. It was struck in 2019.

It is disastrous, and supports CDC Guidelines, 2017 CDN Guidelines, and anti-opioid hysteria.

Agenda driven anti-opioid "sparing" policy harms and kills two vulnerable sectors of the population, those with SUD, and those with pain conditions, chronic, degenerative, and terminal.

You may never struggle with SUD. But I guarantee, you will be injured, become ill, or require emergency surgery. As will people you know & love.

Let's see how well you do post-surgically with thousands of mg's of toxic acetaminophen, or NSAIDS that will eventually cause a bleed.

Policy driven opioid prohibition only does harm. It drives legitimate pain patients with medical conditions to dire circumstances:
1) bedridden and suffering, premature morbidity and mortality from hypertension and CV disease, physical, cognitive, and psychological decline.

Policy driven opioid prohibition only does harm. It drives legitimate pain patients with medical conditions to dire circumstances:
2) street drugs in desperation to attempt to manage pain and have some sort of quality of life -even if it kills you;

Policy driven opioid prohibition only does harm. It drives legitimate pain patients with medical conditions to dire circumstances:
3) suicide.

Is this the health care system you want?

I fight for your loved ones. I fight for you. Help us.