Just so everyone knows, private ins. companies and CMS joined with the feds to go after opioids and doctors, with $ from tort litigation being the end-game. For example: BCBS Michigan supplied the dea under-covers with fake mris to trick MDs & then when they rxed, arrested them!
Now BCBS gets to sue opioid manufacturers for billions. The corruption is unbelievable. We have MDs sitting in prison so companies could get rich from these lawsuits.
We have patients that have DIED b/c of this. THIS IS NOT ABOUT KEEPING PPL SAFE. If it was, the cdc would have tracked what happens to the MDs and patients after they made all the changes. Instead, they CHOSE to only track how much they could reduce prescribing. This is a SCAM.
The BCBS rep from NC admitted working with the attorneys general at a 2018 DUKE Margolis meeting with payers. At this same meeting, Kit Delgado said many ODs were now patients w/severe pain coming into the ER that had been abandoned by their PCPs after the GLs were implemented.
“The BCBSA FEP SIU provides training for industry partners, including law enforcement and Blue Plan SIU investigators, on topics related to prescription fraud & drug diversion, w/a focus on the opioid epidemic”….bcbs.com/sites/default/…
“Last year, BCBSM conducted 200 undercover operations in which investigators posed as patients.
Those criminal rings can be difficult to break up, as the patient base consists primarily of addicts who rely on the success of the scheme to maintain supply” fiercehealthcare.com/antifraud/data…
They flag based off data analytics & then entrap:
”We couldn't make these cases without doing the undercover investigation," he says. "These [data analytic] tools are great to highlight something, but nothing can replace the legwork. You just can't do it on those numbers alone."
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I’ve wondered why Natl Harm Redux coalition & DPA w/partnered with a film & outreach program that promotes re-installing the 2016 cdc gls (according to leader Jamie Boyle) & publicizing a stigmatizing film aimed at demonizing rx opioids, while advocating for safe injection sites.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact these two sit on the board of directors for Natl HR Coalition. Also, DPA NY has long supported Alexis Pleus from TruthPharm, who helped Nan with her Sackler litigation publicity stunts. These groups are harming ppl who use drugs.
I was told that DPA is normally an “ally” to the pain/disability community. I was also told they have ppl that have joined their group that have been harmed by Purdue. I wonder why there’s a distinction b/t street initiation bs rx initiation and why they have a double standard.
“Winning the War on Opioids: A Behind the Scenes Look at The Largest and Most Complex Deal In The History of Jurisprudence”
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“How US DOJ & Trial Lawyers circumvented public consent to create a work-around ban on rx opioids thru mass tort litigation.”levinlaw.com/2021/07/21/win…
“A nationwide solution. If you impose serious restrictions in one community, but not the next, offenders simply move their operations. By getting all states & all communities on board, it created a truly nationwide solution to a public health crisis.”
-mass rx restrictions 🤔
“This reform package includes the creation of a groundbreaking clearinghouse through which the Big Three will be required to account not only for their own shipments, but also the shipments of the other distributors, in order to detect, stop, and report suspicious orders.”
So I figured out why Barry was so intent on obfuscating the pain pts’ complaints about his reporting: he’s a niche investigative journalist that covers big class-action litigation, seemingly erring on the side of plaintiffs, which includes billion $ firms. #LitigationNarrative
Also really interesting afa #BarryMeier and his relationship with the prosecutor in the 2007 Purdue case. https://t.co/SlfSdCjSXEstatnews.com/2018/06/06/oxy…
Roughly a year before Meier was tipped off about Oxycontin’s marketing issues, Barry wrote this strange little bit about Ron Motley Esq, who won big with the tobacco litigation, & went on to hire PROP member(s) as expert witnesses for opioid litigation. https://t.co/c7Z78XZXvNnytimes.com/1999/11/14/bus…
The real cause of the opioid related death explosion isn’t initial exposure to opioids. It’s separating ppl from their safer supply, be it from a MD or from a street source. Going after pharma/supply only made this worse b/c then the solution was to cut everyone off and stop RXs.
@US_Muckraker So IOW, when cops and public health depts (cause they’re partnered now in this endeavor) take out ppl supplying the drugs they deem “highly addictive”, they’re not just trying to ruin the lives of the “dealer” figure, they’re openly aiming to hurt the end recipient of the drug.
@US_Muckraker I find it shocking that so many supposed liberal ppl in medicine (that will be all about BLM, etc) are actually fostering a framework that was used for slavery as far as medical paternalism. The harm principle honors individuals own bodily autonomy, as long as others aren’t hurt.
Daniel Clauw is retaliating against scientific criticism, and making very non-evidence based generalizations conflating all causes of pain as one (that doesn’t respond to opioids), which reinforces how his non-opioid industry $ causes very biased misinfo.
Notice he flashed his disclosure slide so no one would have time to read it. That seems intentional, esp b/c most of the time, researchers leave the slide up long enough that it doesn’t appear to be a part of some subliminal message 💀
Receipts for the first 7 pharma companies #DanielClauw consults for, showing they’re competing interests as far as pain txs:
2017, president at the time Mark Schlissel, & Martin Philbert, who worked as head of the School of Public Health, before being appointed Provost by Schlissel, (despite alleged sexual misconduct) at a precision hlth opioid initiative announcement.