#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….
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.
Anna Lembke and Keith Humphreys must be so proud of themselves. Imagine ppl thinking the 12-step cult would be helpful for those “addicted” to their pain. I’ve truly seen it all. Meeting’s at 8 tonight if any of you wanna go undercover;) intherooms.com/home/live-meet…
“Daniel Kessler and Mark McClellan (1996) found that these incentives translated into “defensive medicine”—use of precautionary treatments with minimal expected medical benefit out of fear of legal liability”
🧵#DoNoHarm#DEACenteredCare#TortReform#CAM nber.org/system/files/c…
“The 1990s brought a new phenomenon: the use of litigation to impose regulation. In this scenario, exec-branch agencies or even private parties sue alleged wrongdoers and obtain settlements that govern the defendant’s future behavior through a system of highly specific rules.”
“However, the use of litigation as a means to force companies to accept regulation outside of the normal political process raised several new questions about litigation’s dynamic costs and benefits”. (Viscusi 2002; Moriss, Yandle, and Dorchak 2009) -cont. ⬇️
Did you know that there’s a cloud based resource that was funded by the AGs through litigation funds, thats run by OSHU? I believe this was formed so anyone involved in litigation would have access to research that supported the demonization of opioids. opioidlibrary.org/document/cauti…
A 5 yr old was tortured because no one wanted to treat his pain from a compound fracture and repair. I just spoke with the dad and he’s willing to to testify. How many more will be forced to suffer?
The American College Surgeons is in bed with Pacira Pharma and gets millions in donations from them. Exparel was just FDA approved to be used in children last year. I saw this coming…. investor.pacira.com/news-releases/…
ROTTEN
1worst of all: there are virtually no patient protections in place at this point for the undertreatment of pain! seekingalpha.com/article/409371…
@ejb1893@CitizenViz@RyanForRecovery@praddenkeefe@geraldposner@RepKatiePorter@RepGolden Now picture this: the AGs decide to go after the MAT industry due to bad marketing and pt deaths + the flooding of meds. Imagine what would happen if they decided to brainwash the pubic that all MAT meds are bad and dangerous, DEA raids MDs and pharmacy’s, pts are cut off.