At 30 mins in, you’ll hear testimony about something called an “immediate suspension order”. This is the admin tool that DEA used to take away Dr Bockoff’s DEA license & take his assets, w/o having to file charges. #DEACenteredCare#Suicide
And this is the same hearing that billionaire law-firm attorneys used as part of their cases. THIS shows how the #LitigationNarrative has had and is still having a direct, deadly effect on patients’ ability to access and maintain medical care related to rx opioids.
How much has @AmericasLawyer made off the suffering of ppl w/pain? Mike “Pap” , Hitlers propaganda arm would be impressed you shameless, greedy profiteer.
Why are we angry? Because the irresponsible actions of a bunch of attorneys have put pain medicine in a place where ppl with serious medical issues are being abandoned in DROVES because you needed to pollute the “court of public opinion” to ensure this wealth transfer.
Don’t act like you didn’t know, either. You and your sick expert witnesses, Kolodny, Rannissizzi, Alexander, FughBerman, Clauw, and Lembke, made sure you all smeared everyone associated with pain/opioids in the media, to the point where you even took out pain advocate groups.
See, I find it appalling that the #MassTort industry operates like this. While screaming false claims/misleading marketing, all the entities paid off by the law firms (media, experts, AGs and congress) spew nothing but one-sided, outdated half-truths that cause permanent damage.
Bonus: @AmericasLawyer produced this film, #OxyKingpins . pajiba.com/film_reviews/t… Notice the social justice slant he put on there about it not being right that we’re arresting drug dealers and not ppl that work in the legal rx chain.
There’s no excuse for how they went about this. I listened to a federalist meeting where an #AG admitted they all knew if even one of the big 3 distributors went bankrupt (as did at least 3 of the opioid makers) that it would kill patients. Let that sink in. They rolled the dice.
So anytime you hear one of the state/fed attorneys talk about irresponsible behavior, you’ll remember they were so hungry for that $ and that career accolade, they were willing to kill for it. Sending coercive and threatening letters to payers and CDC encouraging the crackdown.
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Dez: “The disruption in my pain tx resulted in a severe flareup of my illnesses which ended with organ failure, emergency surgery, & sepsis. By the time I was out of the hospital, I was being given my final taper & quickly developed infections within 12 hours of my final dose”.
Nita G: “this practice is driven by a false narrative that the recent epidemic of opioid-related deaths is caused by overprescription of opioids & that tapering will improve patient safety and quality of life. However, more and more, the practice is having the opposite effect.”
#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….
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…
“When well-being is defined subjectively, opposition from the person whose well-being an intervention is intended to improve or protect is perhaps the best indication that the intervention in question presupposes a conception of well-being to which that person does not subscribe”
“The fact that it is possible to improve the health (objective) while diminishing the well- being (subjective) of someone who assigns greater value to something else is one of the reasons why free and informed consent is so important in the clinical world and why paternalistic..
“… interventions that do not meet with consent are viewed in such a poor light and are severely criticized in the context of relationships between caregivers and patients (Flanigan, 2013).
“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. ⬇️