1-I now have ppl searching for me on FB after reading my article.
One person put a link on one of my posts about how to 'get hooked up with doctors who will give people the pills they want'.
I'm tired.
No, I'm beyond exhausted and I'm really over all of this. #ChronicPain
2-I deleted his 'pill hook up' link, he also posted a link to his own article in which he regurgitated the tired THEORY of how- 'over prescribing started the opioid crisis' and how 'prescription pills are now being laced with Fentanyl'. #TheGreatOpioidLie
3-Probably 25 more articles I need to write now expanding on things I could only touch on in my recent article. The first being. dispelling #TheGreatOpioidLie that uses the 'over prescribing' theory to justify the DEADLY, draconian restrictions they've implemented on RX meds.
4-The 'over prescribing' theory is just that, A THEORY, based loosely on correlating a period of time when MDs were being mandated to TREAT PAIN; pain was being UNDERTREAED across the board due to OPIOPHOBIA in America-bias & stigma rooted in racism and the OPIOID WARS.
5-We see that restricting production of SAFE AND EFFECTIVE MEDICINES, targeting people in pain, while jailing prescribers who DARE practice patient centered care, has done NOTHING to stem the tide of drug deaths. In fact, it's done the opposite, as prohibition always will.
6-Anyway, like I said, I'm beyond exhausted.
I'm battling serious health issues, advocating for both CPPs and those with SUD, putting myself out there which makes me a target, being hit by natural disaster after natural disaster, all while grieving the loss of my daughter.
7-All of this is because of corrupt individuals and entities want to continue profiting by perpetuating lies-
Getting rich, while those they are professing 'save' continue to be sacrificed on the altar of #TheGreatOpioidLie.
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1-Husband established w/a clinic in our town-
Same one that refused to treat my pain a few yrs ago after exacerbating my neck injury carrying firewood.
MD had told me I'd need a referral to a pain clinic as my pain was related to a chronic condition. 🤨
Husband given a brochure.
2-He then saw this in the exam room.
He took photos for me of all of this as he knows how they treated me in the past and he also knows about all the hypocrisy of what they say vs what they actually do when it comes to CPPs.
1/ Makes me sad-
The same arguments/facts we were making back in 2014 when Share Our Pain was one of the few E-advocacy groups here are the same things new people are just realizing.
Siobhan Reynolds-way before that.
GOV KNOWS the HARMS.
All the anti-opioid PROPagandists know.
2/EVERY #chronicpain pt needs to know our history re: our advocacy. Siobhan Reynolds was a lion, hunted down by GOV, cut down in the prime of her life.
Her voice will echo through time, forewarning the atrocities we see rapidly increasing in real time now. doctorsofcourage.org/siohban-reynol…
Thread-I've asked the pain community to write letters to the @WhiteHouse ATTN: @FLOTUS or @Potus.
This is my own letter already sent re: how MY family's been impacted.
Now an #OpenLetter.
It will take all of us writing for #PainAwarenessMonth to make an impression. #ChronicPain
1-Stop the, 'Over prescribing caused the opioid crisis.' narrative. I read article after article where 'liberal prescribing' is ascribed as the cause of the so called #opioidcrisis.
Many articles are written by people in our own community, self proclaimed pain pt ‘advocates’.
2-To this, I’d like to point out that in OC even a judge recently ruled:
"There is simply no evidence to show that the rise in prescriptions was not the result of the medically appropriate provision of pain medications to patients in need," #RxOpioidsSaveLives #ChronicPain
Thread...How people in pain are being abused.
Let us count the ways.
1-Emotional Abuse:
Invalidation of person's lived experience
Distrust
Gaslighting
Ridicule
Threats
Constant monitoring of activities
Judgment/punishment #ChronicPain#WeWillNotStaySilent
2-Intellectual Abuse
Being forced to prove your abuser wrong
Mind games
Making the person in pain feel stupid
Attacking the person in pain's ideas or wishes
Manipulation of information, even in medical records
Power Imbalance
3-Financial Abuse
Forcing person to attend needless appointments
requiring co-payments, transportation costs, paying for 'alternative' modalities, Coerced into costly surgeries and 'minimally invasive' procedures, endless lifelong drug testing.
2-Cut down in the prime of life.
Victims of #IllicitFentanylPoisonings.
Deaths happening due to a deadly drug supply, deaths that could have largely been prevented.
These are people, people who were loved, not statistics. #SafeSupplySavesLives