don't expect to have their pain level lowered to a Zero.
For the majority, that would be an entirely unrealistic fantasy. What they do anticipate when they are receiving #PatientCentereCare is that their pain will be managed to a tolerable level that allows them to
improve their ability to function & their quality of life to the highest level possible for their medical condition.
For millions of #CPP & #IPP what *should* be a reasonable expectation. That they be treated based on their individual health care needs is not an achievable
goal.
It is due to an unwillingness of Medical Professionals to provide the #PatientCenteredCare that would result in the best outcomes for individuals.
The interference in the practice of medicine by the Government, Insurance Companies, State Medical Boards, Medical Facility
Administrators, PDMP Algorithms all play a roll in limiting the autonomy of medical professionals.
⬆️ Correction... ⬆️ Need a blasted edit feature🤦♀️
"It is NOT due to an unwillingness of Medical Professionals to provide the #PatientCenteredCare that would result in the best outcomes for individuals."
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Doctors can’t help people in pain because of restrictive opioid policy. ~ @dr4liberty@RMengerMD
ITHERETWEETER1://reason.com/2022/06/07/americas-failed-opioid-policy-drove-the-tulsa-shooter-to-violence/ via @reason
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There is no clear definition of overprescribing. Yet policy makers keep doubling down on a misguided mission to reduce or eliminate opioid prescribing, putting patients back in miserable pain and mental anguish, driving some to suicide and others to the black market.
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Now, it may have driven one person to homicide.
All the while, overdoses soar among the population of nonmedical users who long ago moved on to heroin and fentanyl.
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The protections for individuals with disabilities under the American's with Disabilities Act are not being enforced when patients with painful diseases report experiencing discrimination.
To influence lawmakers we need everyone to get involved.
Here’s what you can do!
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Take Action 🗣️ 📢
Send an Inquiry to the Justice Department Civil Rights Division on the Status of Guidance for the Protection of Patients With Painful Diseases Pain, Policy Modification Requirements Under the Americans with Disabilities Act
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and Request Immediate Action be taken!
A sample inquiry is attached that can be personalized for your own use to copy & paste into the web portal and/or modified to send to your Congressional Reps.
The Department of Justice, all federal agencies and federally funded programs shall immediately cease any program that targets clinicians for investigation and/or prosecution that uses a subjective definition of Legitimate Medical Treatment.
Congressional Hearings shall be scheduled by the House Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee to investigate these issues and form a plan for corrective action.
@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.
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
🚨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.