Thread by @Pain_Speaking

Now for some Perspective & Rationality over Fear mongering Click Bait headlines

There are Millions Americans living with Chronic Pain who are living with untreated & under treated #Pain since @CDCInjury issued Guidelines for "PCPs" in 2016.

This type of action is an anomaly.

https://twitter.com/ademillo/status/1532512429854294032

Of the millions of people who have faced systematic discrimination & under treatment, or no treatment, have lost the ability to function & their quality of life there have been 3 instances where they or a family member has committed an act of violence of this magnitude in

retaliation.

More commonly the individual will take their own life rather than lashing out at a medical professional.

Medical Professionals are 🎯 based on a subjective definition of "Legitimate Medical Treatment" which equates to "Provides Patient Centered Care / treats patients who live in a Health Care Desert."

qlarant.com/knowledge/case…

While the death toll rises from Polysubstance Use & Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyl (IMF) the government devotes Millions 💸💸 to target Medical Professionals who attempt to provide #PatientCenteredCare.

Simultaneously framing a #PolysubstanceUseCrisis as an #OpioidEpidemic

"In the context of the so-called 'opioid overdose crisis', even though multiple classes of central nervous system depressant drugs are present in the vast majority of incidents,

drugtruthaustralia.org/opioidcrisis.h…

the deaths are being intentionally misrepresented as being solely due to opioids.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quotes figures of 13.1 deaths per 100,000 head of population with involvement of any type of opioid drug in 2016. (3) Importantly, the vast

vast majority of these deaths also involved other drugs. Put into perspective with major causes of drug-related mortality, the deaths of thirteen thousandths of one per cent of the total population does not constitute an 'epidemic'."

Patient Centered Care is critical, but has been absent for patients with #RareDisease, Complex Chronic Illnesses & Disabilities with #Pain as a component.

ama-assn.org/delivering-car…

No one wants to discuss the risks & harms to individuals who have been experiencing systematic discrimination & untreated pain.

Who have had their quality of life sacrificed "for their own good".

They pat themselves on the back & tout their victory of *helping* us.

The government has known for decades that the #OverdoseCrisis is driven by Polysubstance Use & an unregulated supply on the Black Market.

However, the RX & Doctor blaming Narrative provided the public with the illusion they were *doing* something.

What are the "Actual Risks" of Overdose & Mortality Rates in "Medical Use"?

Multiple large studies have shown the risk to be less than 1% when there is no current or prior history of Substance Use Disorder.

"a recent study investigated the results of the Opioid Safety Initiative (OSI)....OSI “succeeded” in that it caused opioid prescribing to drop 41% between from 2012 to 2017, and 64% by 2020. " ~ @dr4liberty

pilotonline.com/opinion/column…

"The researchers found a 75% increase in suicides among rural veterans relative to civilians between the start of the OSI and 2018.

Perhaps, a true measure of the damage caused by OSI is that a 33% increase in suicides over five years is considered “less dramatic.”"