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Aug 5, 2022 23 tweets 14 min read Read on X
#NAAG is corrupt. Thanks for waking me up to the fact that you’re not there for justice, you’re there to enforce the drug war and massive wealth transfers. The way you sacrificed serious and complex incurable disease patients WILL MAKE THE HISTORY BOOKS. Mark my word….
Imma create a running list of all the evidence of interference in the practice of pain tx that’s come from @NatlAssnAttysGn . Feel free to add to it everyone. …g1r8so11ozniw-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upl…
And notice for this “partnering w/public health” event, it was funded by the same grant PharmedOUT was formed by.
The prescriber edu grant was used time after time after time in creating and planning the opioid lawsuits. Guess I need to do a thread on that, too.
Here’s a decent example of the alleged bribery that’s rampant in the #LitigationIndustry, involving Attnys general. I’ll explain how this works in the next tweet: sevendaysvt.com/vermont/gasoli…
First of all, the #NAAG seems to be at the center of this. Notice #EllenRosenblum is the current VP of NAAG. She’s been integral to the Opioid lawsuits and Oregon is possibly the worst state afa how pain pts are treated. Who funded her? ⬇️ opb.org/news/article/l…
Here’s how it works: large private law-firms fund campaigns of state AGs, treasurers, & also members of congress. In turn, the AGs/treasurers select these same law firms to work on contingency in these lawsuits against “deep pocket” companies. They get a huge part of the $.
So while they prosecute everyone else for kickback violations, they seem to be doing the same thing!While they pay media to smear companies for being motivated by sheer “greed”, they allow attnys to negotiate a large contingency fee when the companies are forced to settle.
The worst thing about this is that they recruit “injured” consumers to market the suit to the public by telling their heartbreaking stories, while not informing them that they’ll get very little of the settlement. Unless you’re educated about how this works, you’d never know…
That most of the $ promised to victims to abate the harms of the product/company, will be given to the govt, & corporate entities (hospital systems/payers) that felt they lost $. Worst of all, the attnys are the ones that make the most. (And shopped the idea to the AGs to start)
Why does this matter? B/c this is increasingly used to bypass policy-making rules and is allowing govt attnys (NOT specialists in the field) to run the show. When it comes to access to medications for incurable diseases, we don’t want this to be defacto, esp when it’s politicized
Guess who else gets a payoff? Academia’s richly rewarded for creating the evidence needed in court to prosecute these companies. #EllenRosenblum gave a large $ of the settlement funds to OSHU, which also EMPLOYS THE LEAD AUTHOR of the #CDCOpioidGuidelines guidelines! Pay to play.
Next time you hear something about #BigPharma, include #BigLaw in with that. The amounts these attnys are making allow them to be very influential, while flying under the normal “industry funding” COI radar. Sunshine is the best disinfectant: manhattan-institute.org/html/trial-law…
Next I’ll post some screen-shots that these attorneys used in their cases against the opioid industry/Purdue. You’ll see why I’m so 🔥 about how they did this and the things they said. There’s a reason I call it blood $.
There are more, but you get the idea. Imagine insinuating that an entire class of essential meds need to be “pulled from the market”, with no regard whatsoever for the patients that rely on them.

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Sep 15, 2023
I’ve wondered why Natl Harm Redux coalition & DPA w/partnered with a film & outreach program that promotes re-installing the 2016 cdc gls (according to leader Jamie Boyle) & publicizing a stigmatizing film aimed at demonizing rx opioids, while advocating for safe injection sites.

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I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact these two sit on the board of directors for Natl HR Coalition. Also, DPA NY has long supported Alexis Pleus from TruthPharm, who helped Nan with her Sackler litigation publicity stunts. These groups are harming ppl who use drugs.
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I was told that DPA is normally an “ally” to the pain/disability community. I was also told they have ppl that have joined their group that have been harmed by Purdue. I wonder why there’s a distinction b/t street initiation bs rx initiation and why they have a double standard.
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“Winning the War on Opioids: A Behind the Scenes Look at The Largest and Most Complex Deal In The History of Jurisprudence”
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“How US DOJ & Trial Lawyers circumvented public consent to create a work-around ban on rx opioids thru mass tort litigation.”levinlaw.com/2021/07/21/win…
“A nationwide solution. If you impose serious restrictions in one community, but not the next, offenders simply move their operations. By getting all states & all communities on board, it created a truly nationwide solution to a public health crisis.”

-mass rx restrictions 🤔
“This reform package includes the creation of a groundbreaking clearinghouse through which the Big Three will be required to account not only for their own shipments, but also the shipments of the other distributors, in order to detect, stop, and report suspicious orders.”
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Aug 14, 2023
So I figured out why Barry was so intent on obfuscating the pain pts’ complaints about his reporting: he’s a niche investigative journalist that covers big class-action litigation, seemingly erring on the side of plaintiffs, which includes billion $ firms. #LitigationNarrative
Also really interesting afa #BarryMeier and his relationship with the prosecutor in the 2007 Purdue case. https://t.co/SlfSdCjSXEstatnews.com/2018/06/06/oxy…


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Roughly a year before Meier was tipped off about Oxycontin’s marketing issues, Barry wrote this strange little bit about Ron Motley Esq, who won big with the tobacco litigation, & went on to hire PROP member(s) as expert witnesses for opioid litigation. https://t.co/c7Z78XZXvNnytimes.com/1999/11/14/bus…


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Jul 28, 2023
The real cause of the opioid related death explosion isn’t initial exposure to opioids. It’s separating ppl from their safer supply, be it from a MD or from a street source. Going after pharma/supply only made this worse b/c then the solution was to cut everyone off and stop RXs.
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@US_Muckraker So IOW, when cops and public health depts (cause they’re partnered now in this endeavor) take out ppl supplying the drugs they deem “highly addictive”, they’re not just trying to ruin the lives of the “dealer” figure, they’re openly aiming to hurt the end recipient of the drug.
@US_Muckraker I find it shocking that so many supposed liberal ppl in medicine (that will be all about BLM, etc) are actually fostering a framework that was used for slavery as far as medical paternalism. The harm principle honors individuals own bodily autonomy, as long as others aren’t hurt.
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Jul 26, 2023
Daniel Clauw is retaliating against scientific criticism, and making very non-evidence based generalizations conflating all causes of pain as one (that doesn’t respond to opioids), which reinforces how his non-opioid industry $ causes very biased misinfo.
Notice he flashed his disclosure slide so no one would have time to read it. That seems intentional, esp b/c most of the time, researchers leave the slide up long enough that it doesn’t appear to be a part of some subliminal message 💀 Image
Receipts for the first 7 pharma companies #DanielClauw consults for, showing they’re competing interests as far as pain txs:


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Mar 15, 2023
Wow! What’s going on over at #UM!? University of Michigan fires president insidehighered.com/news/2022/01/1…
2017, president at the time Mark Schlissel, & Martin Philbert, who worked as head of the School of Public Health, before being appointed Provost by Schlissel, (despite alleged sexual misconduct) at a precision hlth opioid initiative announcement. ImageImageImageImage
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