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Jun 3 4 tweets 3 min read
@ademillo Please STOP #Stigmatizing patients who are being experiencing systemic Disability Discrimination to *cough* save them from a 1% risk of #Addiction

Since the 2016 Guidelines were issued there have been 3 of these cases from the millions of suffering CPP

@ademillo What we "Don't" read about in the News...

"For more than a decade, millions of Americans were misled into believing that—as a White House report once characterized it —‘‘opiate overdoses, once almost always due to heroin use, are now increasingly due to abuse of prescription
@ademillo painkillers’’. Little did they know or suspect that the CDC’s coding of prescription painkillers included non- prescribed illicitly manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogs and non-prescribed methadone administered or dispensed to patients being treated for opioid use disorder.
@ademillo "approximately 80% of overdose deaths involved opioids, and three of four opioid overdose deaths involved IMFs. … Second, IMFs, heroin, cocaine, or methamphetamine (alone or in combination) were involved in nearly 85% of overdose deaths."

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Jun 3
🧵 The @DEAHQ @CDCInjury @HHSGov @CMSGov interference in the practice of medicine is having devastating consequences for people who have #RareDisease Complex #chronicillness or a #Disability that requires a controlled substance to maintain their health
Fear, not Patient well being is determining prescribing practices.

Patients like my daughter are caught in the riptide of Medical Professionals attempting to avoid unwarranted persecution by Law Enforcement.

Unable to discontinue the only Seizure RX
that has stabilized her condition & not caused severe life threatening adverse reactions.

Since the @CDCgov Guidelines were issued by @CDCInjury in 2016, my daughter's life has been put in jeopardy repeatedly. She is a rare disease patient with multiple overlapping chronic
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Jun 2
🚨It's time to remove Law Enforcement, Politicians & Special interest Groups from the Doctor / Patient Relationship!

The governments intrusion at both the State & Federal level has been profound.

Enough is Enough!
@deesnider may we use your song "We Ain't Gonna Take It?" for our Education & Awareness campaign to stop the government's interference in the practice of medicine?

If you don't want the government dictating which medical treatments you can receive, and persecuting medical professionals for providing treatment based on YOUR personal health care needs, please consider signing and sharing.

change.org/StopCriminaliz…
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May 17
STOP Criminalizing "Patient Centered Care" & End Systemic Health Discrimination - Sign the Petition!

@aander1987 @life_is_art___ @Irishbrat1966 @fightpaindaily @ChadDKollas @ibdgirl76 @jillyannjiggs @tal7291 @speakingabtpain @PlayLynny4U

chng.it/8zjTsGnx via @Change
"Disabled individuals with incurable painful diseases and debilitating injuries are experiencing systemic discrimination which has left them without any good options. Their choices are to exist in agony, attempt to self-medicate via the black market, or suicide.
To ensure health equity, reduce discriminatory practices in medicine and improve the quality of life and function to disabled individuals, we respectfully request the following actions be considered to correct this grievous inequity.
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May 13
2)"Commonly, people who investigate and discuss opioid overdose deaths believe that the deaths are exclusively due to the disease of addiction, but here again, they are mistaken. An estimated 30 percent or more of overdoses are believed to be suicides.

lynnwebstermd.com/2020/01/18/why…
3)People in pain are almost three times as likely as the general population to commit suicide.

In addition, current efforts to curb opioid prescribing have pushed many people to the streets to purchase illegal, and more lethal, drugs. This is even true for some people
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May 13
2)"There are a variety of factors that have influenced the progressive pacing of opioid-related overdoses witnessed throughout the second decade of the 21st century. Perhaps the most significant has been the introduction and availability of illicitly

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
3) manufactured synthetic opioid products (namely “fentalogues”),2,3 although additional contributors include increasing rates of polysubstance abuse,2–5 continued poor access to medication assisted treatments and behavioral health supports,6 and restrictions and
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May 12
1) We can't leave Politican's out of the equation.

Why there's no Political Will to End the War on Drugs⬇️

Power, Ideology, and the War on Drugs: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-…
2)"A critical analysis of the Federal Government's crime control policy on dangerous and illegal drugs is presented that focuses on drug criminalization and enforcement policies during the 1980's, the seeming narrow-mindedness of continuing such a policy, and the amount
3)of social control such a policy invests in those in power.

The overriding characteristic of the "war on drugs" is that both the perception of success and the perception of failure can be used to justify continuing such a war. With success, governmental control mechanisms must
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