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Jun 7 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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.

(Links to the DOJ Portal & Rep look up included)

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docs.google.com/document/d/1cu…
Sign & Share the Petition to #EndHealthDiscrimintion

Include your Impact Statement that describes the Discrimination you have experienced.

➡️ Involuntary discontinuation of RX needed for Disability
➡️ Refused Tx due to Diagnosis/Disability

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change.org/StopCriminaliz…
➡️ Refused admittance to or discharged from a medical practice based on Condition/Disability or RX being taken

Request ADA Accommodation for your disability

If not approved File a complaint

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beta.ada.gov/file-a-complai…
By working together we can achieve our goals!

Restore #PatientCenteredCare & end #GovenmentOverReach into the Practice of Medicine!
We ARE making progress!🎉

The HHS Office of Civil Rights *has* taken action on a complaint directly related to Disability with Pain as a component & the requirement to modify policies under the ADA🎉🎉

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Samantha Adcock, Profile picture
Jun 8
There is NEVER a justification for violence towards medical professionals.

Perpetuating Fear & #Stigma is NOT beneficial

It's rare for individuals in #Pain to strike out in violence at medical professionals.

Does it happen? Yes.

Should it? NO!
The ONLY way to prevent future occurrences is to understand WHY it is happening & avoid Fear Mongering & casting aspersions on a population of patients who are experiencing Systemic #Discrimination.

Under & Untreated patients experiencing unremitting pain are more likely to Image
Three cases of people committing such an extreme act of violence is NOT a trend & is NOT reflective of the #PainPatient population as a whole.

There are an estimated 50 million people living with #ChronicPain.

These cases are anomalies, the Root Cause needs to be addressed
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Samantha Adcock, Profile picture
Jun 7
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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Samantha Adcock, Profile picture
Jun 6
Personally, I find the entire outline of their Orthopedic program concerning from a patient's perspective.

In addition to the "72 hr Pain Free" follow up. It minimizes the potential for patients to experience post-op pain.

Unrealistic expectations shouldn't be advertised🤦‍♀️ Image
Make no mistake, I'm in suggesting this act was justified.

There is no, and can be no justification for striking out at medical professionals when a patient's expectations for treatment are not met.
There has been a lot of discussion regarding the Pain Patient's having unrealistic expectations for Pain Management.

For patients to have reasonable expectations, there must be clear honest discussion of the potential risks / benefits or any procedure including
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Jun 5
Please help us help you #MedTwitter

By working together we CAN get the Government to 🛑 Interfering in the Practice of Medicine

#StopCriminalizingPatientCenteredCare

Please consider Signing to help restore Clinician Autonomy & eliminate the use of this Criteria
⬇️ to 🎯 Drs Image
Our Requests include:

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.

#HealthCareInAmerica

#ProtectPatientsAndDoctors
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Jun 3
@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.
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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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