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Carrie

@life_is_art___

15 Sep

@LennonMaclean

@LennonMaclean And guess what I found the other day? That the interventional pain industry groups that have recommended these as SOP for cpps are using doing this on purpose and then telling the govt that it’s cheaper in the long run to do procedures (SCS’s and IT pumps) More to come on this…

@LennonMaclean

@LennonMaclean Letter from AGs in Sept 2017, to America’s Health Insurance Plans, “To encourage healthcare providers to prioritize non-opioid pain mgmt. options over opioid prescriptions for the treatment of chronic, non-cancer pain.” I noticed this gem from #TimDeer
myfloridalegal.com/webfiles.nsf/W…

@LennonMaclean

@LennonMaclean Here’s the 2016 Business Insider article Deer was cited in in the above letter. He went on to be an expert witness in opioid litigation. Seems like his loyalty to the AGs’ efforts on the WVA opioid task force, payed off.
businessinsider.com/doctors-insura…

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Carrie

@life_is_art___

1 Aug

https://twitter.com/life_is_art___/status/1421838798879604739

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!

https://twitter.com/life_is_art___/status/1421838798879604739

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.

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Carrie

@life_is_art___

31 Jul

@national_pain

@national_pain @speakingabtpain Came across these today and am wondering if you’re familiar with these “aggressive” guidelines (as Don Stader said) done in 2020 for Colorado. Don Stader is cozy with PROP. listennotes.com/podcasts/color…

At 8:30 on the surgery and anesthesia podcast from the above link, Don Stader “I feel like opioids are a lot like smoking”…lnns.co/cQSbkJLtg57

ACS - one of their top donors is Pacira. Not to mention I just found this, which was done in the magic year of 2016: facs.org/media/press-re…

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Carrie

@life_is_art___

26 Jul

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 is an article highlighting his testimony for the prosecution in WVA: wvgazettemail.com/news/legal_aff…

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…

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Carrie

@life_is_art___

16 Jul

@ZachWritesStuff

@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

@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

@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.

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