Just so everyone knows, Dr Timothy Deer is a #PainProfiteer and opioid litigation #MDLShill that’s used his platform as an interventional anesthesiologist to sway opinions. In the last 7 yrs, 5 mill from industry/pharma. openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/39400
Here he writes for Partnership to End Addx, (which hypocritically accepts industry funds while demonizing pain-med pharma) and uses his platform to advertise expensive and risky products and interventions. drugfree.org/drug-and-alcoh…
Deer also helped the state of WVA develop an algorithm that would funnel pain patients into interventional pain offices. No COIs here🧐 I wonder if there was any oversight of this process. aol.com/article/2016/0…
And here it is, the idea that the benefits of sacrificing pain patients will outweigh the harms. Funny how we’re being offered up without any say in the matter by ppl getting paid millions. 😡
ty @ibdgirl76 for some of these links:)
Anyone wanting to defend him, I’d ask you carefully read all the links I posted and consider how this man capitalized on a crisis to self-enrich.
@ZachWritesStuff Roger Chou works for OSHU and contracts to do the systematic reviews on opioids for AHRQ. He’s worked closely with PROP since they formed in 2011. He was also one of the 3 authors of the 2016 gl, as well as a part of the board of sci. councilors for cdc that approve the gls 🤦🏻♀️
@ZachWritesStuff So he chooses which studies are considered in to go into the GLs, writes them, and then also gets to approve them. I uncovered the fact that the Oregon AG has been funneling opioid litigation money into not only OSHU (and this was in 2015) but also into Oregon’s ORCrm state grp.
@ZachWritesStuff Chou was an integral part of Oregon’s response to the opioid epidemic thru OHSU and his work with the ORcrm. It’s just disgusting how this has gone unchecked until today.
Gonna give you an example of the type of corruption we’re dealing with in the realm of anti-opioid America: 1/?
Public Integrity is one of the oldest nonprofit investigative news organizations in the country. Don’t let the name fool you, though. Let’s look at one of their articles as an example of their reporting on the opioid epidemic: publicintegrity.org/state-politics…
This non-profit has been dedicated to writing about the dangers of rx pain meds and how opioid-makers/distributors were responsible for the overdose epidemic.
Now we know who’s been pushing complimentary as a replacement for traditional medicine for the treatment of chronic pain. Lots of info packed into this slideshow. ihsymposium.com/wp-content/upl…
Good old Ballantyne. Emphasis on old- as in thinks pain care should be taken back to the times of outhouses and the laying on of hands….cause “that’s the best we can do”.
I’d like just add this here, considering there is misinfo about the good ole days when patients were left to suffer….. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
1/ When I look into what’s being said in trials against opioid mfgs, I notice something we all see the result of in the form of gaslighting in pain treatment: the brain model of addx and dependence. This strategy allows addx patients to be viewed as harmed BY the intro of meds..
It reduces stigma towards the patient and shifts it onto whoever instigated the opioid treatment. It allows MDs to blame the molecule for “hijacking” the brain, while marginalizing pain patients’ reports of efficacy.
The #PainDenialist members of PROP have continually planted seeds along the way to solidify this idea that these meds only cause harm long-term, while building a gigantic mound of junk-science to prove it.
I find it extremely misleading to promote your non-profit as a drug-free org, while accepting and PARTNERING with pharma lobbying groups. Said group is actively putting out misinfo to policy-makers to change standard of care to their drug. Looking at you @ToEndAddiction ⬇️
Voices for Non-Opioid choices. Pacira’s lobbying group. They wrote the #NOPAIN act. This isn’t to help patients, but to make their product the standard of care for post-op and beyond.