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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Jan 16,
Covid #LongHaulers please take note.
Those in the #MEcfs community has been down the Post Viral Sydrome road for decades now.
The CDC is fully aware of our plight, but has done little in the way of research or help.
#ThisNeedsToChange
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2-It begins, usually, with an infection.
For the majority of #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis pts it was the Epstein Barr Virus. But there are other infections that lead to #MEcfs as well. In almost every case the person knows that from that point, they were never the same again.
3-For some the progression is slow, fits & starts of decline.
Many continue with some sense of 'normalcy' in life for years. For others the onset of their post viral syndrome happens immediately and functional decline deterioration of all body systems is rapid.
#LongCovid #MEcfs
Read 10 tweets
Dec 6, 2021
How many ways can a pain patient be screwed out of getting needed medicine?
1st-By MDs.
2nd-By pharmacies.
3rd-By insurance companies.
4th-By DEA/GOV corruption/lies.
cont...
It's atrocious that this video hasn't gone viral.
#ViralVideo #Opioids #StopPainStigma
Read 6 tweets
Sep 27, 2021
It took 8 yrs of showing up & advocating for pain pts in a myriad of ways. Of giving a megaphone to many of the 'important' ppl. It took a while, but I learned from some of the best.
@StefanKertesz @maiasz @OldHeadFighta @speakingabtpain @funchefchick @headdock @BethDarnall
Maybe these people's stories will matter somehow down the line.
Thank you @GeneW22614687 for highlighting the heinous results of the 'opioid crisis' response. Thanks to Dr. Kline for his sacrifices for the pain community. 💔
Read 24 tweets
Sep 26, 2021
It's not by 'accident' that some of us are left out of the conversation, left off the 'lists' of the elite. Our voices relgated to the echo chamber; hundreds who have been fighting for JUSTICE for pain pts since the beginning, while fighting for our very lives. 😔 Image
2-I see based on most of the names that either you're all about addiction with a nod to CPPs, or a CPP who toes the 'moderate' opioid line...😔
People wonder why I'm angry? Why I've reached the end? Really?!
Fighting since before many were even aware of what was happening, while watching the 'opioid moderates' gain more and more traction, more and more CPP support.
Lauding those who support the chains around our necks. Image
Read 5 tweets
Sep 21, 2021
Almost three years ago, this was sent.
Among many more I'll include in this thread, along with form letter responses.
Our Representatives KNOW what is happening to us.
They have known all along.
#NoneOfThisIsOK
#SavingUsToDeath
#ScreamLouder
2-Written Dec, 2018...😔
3- 2018 Regulations comment submission...
Read 9 tweets
Sep 21, 2021
Thread-1- Our President, today in his speech, cited specifically upholding Article 5.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
How many of these basic HUMAN RIGHTS are people in the pain community being denied at this very moment...?
2-Article 5 states:
"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."

Ask any person being denied adequate pain treatment about the torture they endure day in and day out, every minute of the day and night.

@HRW confirmed it.
3-We can't uphold basic tennants of HUMAN RIGHTS in the U.S.
How can we preach to the world about what should be done in other countries?
How can we 'lead by example' on a world stage if we demonstrate a lack of concern for the most vulerable of our own?
un.org/en/about-us/un…
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