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Jan 16, 2022 10 tweets 9 min read Read on X
We've lost too many in this insane '#opioid' war.
The sick & injured are spending the last years of their lives fighting, suffering, begging MDs & GOV for the medicines they need to mediate their pain.
They say taking our medicines away is to 'save' people.
No one is being saved.
Death due to #Untreatedpain or #Undertreatedpain is death by a thousand cuts.

#RxOpioidsSaveLives
#PainKills
Gov entities & groups like @ShatterproofHQ & @supportprop are directly responsible for spreading the #GreatOpioidLie.
No one with addiction is being helped by denying people in pain #opioid pain medicines.
In fact, despite draconian opioid policies, ODs continue to skyrocket.
This insanity has been going on for too long.
#RxOpioidsSaveLives '#opioidcrisis' #HarmReduction
Right now #Opioid policies aren't resulting in anything resembling #PatientCenteredCare.
Even though quality of life has declined for millions, allowing people pain care with proven, effective, opiate class medicines has become taboo in medical practice.
#MedicalTyranny
We're told to 'quiet down', to supress any anger we might feel, told we just need to be patient year after year, while one after another we watch more and more of our friends in the pain community senselessly losing their lives.
#RxOpioidsSaveLives #HarmReduction #OpioidHysteria
Shamed by the public, by our GOV officials, by medical 'professionals', ignored by most in the media.
Admonished that MDs are withholding needed medicines from us 'for our own good'.
Gaslit, abused both emotinally & physically, there is nowhere for us to turn.
#ScreamLouder
Constant pain wreaks havoc on the body, mind, and soul.
Anyone in an instant can go from healthy and functional to losing their autonomy in regard to both basic self care and being able to make decisions about what is right for them as far as medical treatment.
#MedicalTyranny
There's so much more I could add to this thread.
But why bother, I'll likely just find myself screaming into the void-Locked in an echo chamber- Made a shut in after 10 long yrs of torture-No longer able to march, or travel, or to be an effective catalyst of change.
#ChronicPain

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More from @ravensspirit68

Jan 3
Thread-There's probably more to unpack here than X or my current flare will allow me to elaborate on.
From deflection to gaslighting and than on to dismissal of anything we #chronicpatients or even professionals say.
#ChronicPain #PainCareCrisis @DEAHQ
federalregister.gov/documents/2024…
2-Section 306 of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) (21 U.S.C. 826) requires the Attorney General to establish aggregate production quotas for each basic class of controlled substance in schedule I and II...
Maybe next letter writing campaign to the U.S. A.G?
#PainCareCrisis
3-DEA received 4,699 comments from people with chronic pain, patients (ADHD), pain advocacy associations, U.S. professional associations, U.S. nurses, and far more.
Read 15 tweets
Dec 13, 2023
1-The most idiotic & insulting things those with #ChronicPain face is the implication or direct accusation that we 'just want opiates'.
The truth is, we ARE 'seeking' the meds from MDs we require for pain relief but usually ONLY AFTER trying almost everything else already.
2-When one is ill or injured they usually try the old standby's first vs before going to a doctor.
Ice, heat, OTC meds like Ibuprophen or Tylenol-Even both. Some try herbal supplements, massage, gentle exercise, diet, even acupuncture before seeking help from an MD.
#ChronicPain
3-Those w/#chronicillness have usually done their research & avoid medical offices/ER like the plague if at all possible.
From cost to gaslighting, we'd rather deal with our issues at home. But facts are, we require MDs help as THEY are the only ones who can RX meds we need.
Read 5 tweets
Jun 12, 2023
1-Objective: SAVE LIVES.
Recently I said a #SafeSupply is the pinnacle of saving lives but I realized it's not; it's the FOUNDATION, upon which we build policies to actually save lives.
I'm going to refer to this moving forward as the GOLD STANDARD in reducing #DeathsOfDespair. Image
2-Drugs would be legalized. A safe, known potency supply of substances created by existing drug manufacturers. It would include supply for RX'd medicines as well as for OTC public, adult, sales and consumption. Similar to how alcohol is sold & consumed now.
#SafeSupply Image
3-The BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS being funneled into the #DrugWar and the 'opioid crisis' would be put into improving efficacy and access to AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE, including mental and dental health, while bridging gaps in regard to other #socialdeterminants of health. Image
Read 7 tweets
May 26, 2023
1-#ChronicPain patients knew that the opioid 'guideline' re: prescribing practices was not law.
But as intended, PROP's 'guideline' shaped the Standard of Care re: #opioid prescribing practices so it might as well have been law.
Why?
Tort law.
Let's try and break it down. Image
2-Once PROP's ‘opioid guideline’ was published through CDC, prescribing practices started to formally change nationally and altered how doctors were to treat pain; altering the Standard of Care. This was crafted around an ‘opioids are dangerous drugs' narrative.
#ChronicPain Image
3-The recommendations to instate a maximum morphine milligram equivalent altered things further in the practice of treating pain. It changed pain treatment recommendations for acute pain, post surgical pain control, and most of all, the way #ChronicPain was treated. Image
Read 10 tweets
Mar 24, 2023
Let's break down #TheGreatOpioidLie.
1-"Over-prescribing was the cause of the opioid crisis."
First according to the Medical Board of CA, there is no legal definition of 'overprescribing'.
Second, it is a THEORY that the mandate to treat pain led to the overdose crisis
cont... Image
2-The Gov's own stats disprove the access theory. As access to RX meds declines we continued to see a steady increase in drug deaths.
Seems something else might have been a the heart of why we saw a rise in ODs and continue to see record numbers of PEOPLE dying.
#ChornicPain
3-Could it have been the collective trauma we all experienced after 9/11, then we sent our loved ones off to war, and they were being sent home with broken bodies, then the financial collapse, outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, people losing homes, retirement, investment accts... Image
Read 11 tweets
Mar 23, 2023
1-How is the #WarOnPainPatients being waged, let us count the ways...
You're probably seeing an MD because OTCs aren't working.
You're told ibuprophen works well for pain & offered an RX for ibuphropen.
You decline as you've been taking it OTC for months.

You just refused meds.
2-If you counter any aspects of #TheGreatOpioidLie, citing facts vs fiction...

It's can be charted that you're emotional-hostile-agitated.
'Drug seeking' behaviors.
*Women are often labeled hostile just for being in assertive when dealing with people in positions of power. 😔
3-If you have a #chronicillness that includes fatigue & pain syptoms and you taking an opioid...

It's the opioid making you somnolent, tired, depressed, not your illness or pain.
And this can be used as an excuse for an MD to taper or discontinue opioids or even benzos.
Read 7 tweets

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