This article does a great job of showing how the CDC is easily influenced by whatever political party is in charge and whoever is paying for the current narrative.
At this point, it should be clear to nearly all Americans that claims/guidelines/etc of the CDC are rarely crafted solely for public health.
The bull💩 claims about the opioid crisis is as politically/financially driven as any. It’s time for Congress to force the CDC to:
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1) end current & expose previous private funding
2) have meaningful oversight
3) most importantly - WHEN (not if) scientific (or any other type of) fraud is discovered, any guidelines or actions based on the fraudulent or skewed data must be rapidly and publicly reversed.
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This means eliminate CDC’s Opioid Prescribing Guidelines & start a major PR campaign to teach the public real stats & truths about managing pain with opioids & addiction.
Pain meds save lives & give quality of life for millions, denying these patients relief must end.
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1/ Excited to announce a landmark Oklahoma House of Representatives (#OKHoR) Interim Study, Monday Nov 1, entitled "What impacts have rapid reductions in opioid prescribing had on patients?"
2/ This Interim Study is the culmination of a deep dive investigation into outcomes for patients with pain and the practitioners caring for them, following legislative changes from previous years which restricted opioid prescribing in an attempt to address the opioid crisis.
3/ This 90 minute presentation to the #OKHoR Alcohol, Tobacco, and Controlled Substances Committee, chaired by Representative T.J. Marti, will consist of presentations from respected experts, #P3Alliance, and impacted Oklahoma patients.
Instead of doubling down on the belief that all patients are better off without pain meds, as these “experts” have been doing for 5+ years now, why not acknowledge there ARE some patients for which long term opioid therapy is beneficial?
How much would it actually harm opioid lawsuits to admit this?
Why aren’t we worth it, whatever the cost?
Many patients were tapered or cut off years ago and are still unable to find adequate relief even after spending thousands on any alternative that might possibly help.
Many went from working and enjoying life to now praying daily for death and barely surviving on disability payments alone.
To continue focusing on reducing prescribing is to ignore real life experience and suffering of a portion of disabled who have been w/o pain meds for years.
Here are 6 recent studies & articles to show harms being caused by current push to de-prescribe opioids.
We need a diff policy approach to opioid rX. This seems to be causing more deaths & suffering than allowing stable patients to remain on long term opioid therapy.
Hopefully every1 will put personal opinions aside & recognize this attempt by PROP for what it is, designed to give them tool they need to FORCE each off our effective LTOT & onto Suboxone.
If we can’t work 2gether 4 this & support pros willing to fight w/us, our fight is over.
PROP & their cronies have been quietly pushing for a new diagnostic category.
This would mean if your Dr decides to stop or #ForceTaper your meds and you have fear or even more pain then your ONLY suitable treatment option left is Suboxone.