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@ravensspirit68
Apr 14, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Thread...How people in pain are being abused.
Let us count the ways.
1-Emotional Abuse:
Invalidation of person's lived experience
Distrust
Gaslighting
Ridicule
Threats
Constant monitoring of activities
Judgment/punishment
#ChronicPain #WeWillNotStaySilent
2-Intellectual Abuse
Being forced to prove your abuser wrong
Mind games
Making the person in pain feel stupid
Attacking the person in pain's ideas or wishes
Manipulation of information, even in medical records
Power Imbalance
3-Financial Abuse
Forcing person to attend needless appointments
requiring co-payments, transportation costs, paying for 'alternative' modalities, Coerced into costly surgeries and 'minimally invasive' procedures, endless lifelong drug testing.
4-Pet Abuse
The fear of #Opioids has now spilled over into the lack of pain treatment for pets.
Especially if owner is a pain patient.
Due to perceived possibility an owner who receives pain medicine might be trying to 'get drugs', their pets are now denied needed pain control.
5-Psychological Abuse
Threats
Abandonment
Accusing pt that they're 'faking' 'maligering' 'drug seeking'
Ignoring messages
Practices that lead to person in pain becoming isolated
Using family to target person in pain with fear/shame
Inflicting trauma due to untreated pain
6-Physical Abuse
Not treating pain
Forced procedures to avoid RXing controlled medicine
Abandonment of people who are severely ill/injured
7-Verbal Abuse
Belittling
Being yelled at
Being insulted
Talking to the person with condescension
Speaking in anger, and with disdain
Chastising patient for their use of certain medicines
8-Spiritual Abuse
Putting down the patient's beliefs/Forcing other religious practices
Using faith or 'mind over matter' to manipulate
Shaming/accusing person in pain of not 'having faith'
Using terms like 'suffering makes us stronger' as an excuse to withhold medicines.
9-Social Abuse
Perpetuating isolation through untreated pain
Preventing the patient's ability to work due to undertreated or untreated pain
Creating stigma or false social perceptions due to patient's use of controlled medicine through ongoing PROPaganda campaigns
10-People in pain are a silenced and desperate group of people.
They are comprised of some of the most vulnerable among us-
The sick, injured, elderly, and dying.
None of this is ok.
#WeWillNotStaySilent

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May 4
1-And to wrap things up today...
This is our Critical Analysis of fallout from the 'opioid crisis scam'.
Misattribution of Deaths: The lack of IMF testing until the mid-2000s falsely attributed overdoses to prescription opioids, inflating their perceived role.
#PainCareCrisis
2-It was clear by 2015, (due to more widespread testing upon death), IMF was the dominant driver of drug poisinings, yet policies like the CDC’s guidelines and DEA’s quota cuts continued targeting prescriptions, harming patients without addressing illicit markets.
3-Policy Overreach & the made up "overprescribing" narrative justified one-size-fits-all regulations; ignoring patient diversity. The CDC’s 2022 guideline update acknowledged harm from rigid limits-but the CHILLING EFFECT contines due to DEA scrutiny and pharmacy gatekeeping.
Read 10 tweets
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May 4
1-Continuing the conversation about how the 'opioid crisis' scam is harming and killing vulnerable patients with serious illnesses and injuries...
#PainCareCrisis
2-Harmful Outcomes: Forced tapering or discontinuation increases risks of suicide, mental health crises, and illicit drug use. A 2019 Health Affairs analysis linked restrictive policies to an 8% rise in suicides among chronic pain patients.
3-Some abandoned patients with debilitating conditions turning to fentanyl-laced street drugs after losing prescriptions, with one user on X stating, “Doctors abandoned me; the street was my only option.”
Read 14 tweets
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May 4
1-An overview of my conversation with @Grok, on how the 'opioid crisis' scam is harming vulnerable patients/ a scam that's led to policies which severely limit access to opioids, benzodiazepines, and ADHD medications, devastating patients who rely on them.
2-"Overprescribing" lacks a clear legal or medical definition. It is a made up term that emerged in the late 1990s and 2000s as a catch-all term to describe high prescription opioid volumes based on a medically baseless maximum 'morphine milligram equivalent', or MME.
3-The made up term was popularized by media, advocacy groups, and regulators to frame prescription opioids as the primary driver of rising overdose deaths, despite limited evidence isolating their impact from illicit drugs.
Read 12 tweets
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Apr 7
This is a cry for help!
Not because I’m considering suicide.

This is a cry for help for millions in pain. It’s a cry for those who are taking their own lives to end the agony they've been told that they  just need to learn to accept.

#PainCareCrisis Image
2-It’s a rallying cry for people to start talking about what’s happening, what has been happening for years now, to people with serious illnesses & injuries in this country. Virtually no one is talking about this in the public forum-This is the other side of the ‘opioid crisis’.
3-There are people right now watching the news, rightfully outraged when they see profiling and discrimination, human rights abuses, violations of civil liberties and civil rights.
Read 14 tweets
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Mar 29
1-BEER
Imagine: Beer poisoning kills a few thousand.
Gov declares beer to be highly addictive & dangerous. They implement gov database monitoring of sales & restricting access to beer, you are monitored through your DL. DEA put restrictions on sales & commercial production...
2-There is evidence that deaths are not the beer from the store that's killing most people, although alcohol related deaths do include store bought beer. Some studies say deaths are from a new strong smuggled beer, and beer being made in garages.
3-Since it's difficult to discern which beer is killing people, the government lumps all beer under the 'highly addictive and dangerous' label, and declares that in order to save lives, we need to get people to stop drinking beer, and all alcohol for that matter.
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Jan 27
The Pain Care Crisis: A Call for Compassionate Policy
The majority of people who rely on RX opiate medicines for chronic pain are being unfairly penalized and harmed due to policies aimed at 'misuse'.
Thread...1/
#PainCareCrisis Image
2-Deadly policies-touted as well-intentioned-have led to unintended consequences across the board, leaving millions of chronic pain patients struggling to access the medications they desperately need. Image
3-Personal responsibility plays a crucial role in in the safe use of medications. Patients should be empowered with informed consent, understanding risks and benefits of treatment options, rather than subjected to restrictive, gatekeeping measures.
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