Thread by @ravensspirit68

I commented on the CDC's rewrite.
For whatever that's worth.
I'm exhausted, angry, & now grieving a loss that no parent should ever have to face.
I've had my health & ability to live stolen and lost far too many people I love and care about to this #OpioidInsanity.
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2- My comment?
You have no intention of ending this atrocity. You have had people in the pain community chasing their tails for years while asking for our input and 'comments'.
#Chronicpain

3-We've explained over and over that we are suffering and dying out here in the real world. That MDs tell us to our faces that they are AFRAID of the DEA, and that we are not worth risking their licenses over.
#Chronicpain

4-This is not an unfounded fear, as your arbitrary and medically baseless MME 'speed limit' gives LE a made up metric by which doctors are now flagged as 'over prescribers'.
#chronicpain

5-Those in the CDC and HHS seem divorced from reality. Our legislators and government agencies are either willfully ignorant or knowingly complicit in the ongoing torture and deaths of some of the most vulnerable among us.
#chronicpain

6-When the government's own data shows that overdoses are still skyrocketing despite ongoing, draconian, prescription opioid policies and practices, one can only come to the conclusion that it is the latter.
#Chronicpain

7-Nothing short of a public declaration that our leaders got this 'opioid crisis' response ALL WRONG, and that PROPs opioid guideline and the weaponized PDMP will be rescinded immediately, will be acceptable.
#Chronicpain

8-It is the only way to effect meaningful changes for the tens of millions of sick and injured people for whom opiate class medicines mean LIFE.
#chronicpain

9-We have been given platitudes and promises that things would change for fare too long, and the 'science' shows that the current 'opioid' response is doing ONLY HARM to both the pain community and to people with addiction issues.
#Chronicpain #addiction

10-It is long past time for this insanity to end.
#Chronicpain #FentanylPoisoning #DRUGS #DrugWar #GetLawEnforcementOutofHealthcare #addiction #harmreduction