1-VERY early on we warned about 'pain contracts', the weaponized PDMP, & probable ramifications.
Some of us predicted that opioid policies would metastasize to other meds; suggested that a palliative care exemption for chronic pain patients and MDs who treated them was needed. 😔
Some of us predicted that opioid policies would metastasize to other meds; suggested that a palliative care exemption for chronic pain patients and MDs who treated them was needed. 😔
2-We sounded the alarm about suicides in our community, real harms to people already sick and injured due to 'opioid policies'.
We were told that our accounts were anecdotes, that 'studies' would be needed for 'proof'.
We continue to suffer & watch friends/loved ones suffer/die.
We were told that our accounts were anecdotes, that 'studies' would be needed for 'proof'.
We continue to suffer & watch friends/loved ones suffer/die.
3-We saw how 'DRUG' stigma was passed from one community to the sick & injured. How addiction tx options then somehow became the 'solution' for people with #chronicpain; patients already stable and functional on affordable, safe, and effective old school opioid medicines.
4-We were told to 'comment' on GOV dockets, plead our cases, create petitions, to keep fighting. Over a decade later there have been few to no improvements for the people put in the crosshairs of 'opioid' policies that were supposedly going to 'save lives'.
5-We see now that all those efforts were in vain. Our comments on GOV dockets disregarded. Our pleas dismissed and ignored. We kept fighting as our bodies and lives deteriorated, as policies have only led to even greater suffering and MORE death.
6-I have seen first hand that something a mere 'pain patient' says or proposes carries almost no weight. Yet if some 'expert' says the same thing then it's somehow all of a sudden at least considered and thus allowed at the 'adult table' of the 'opioid' conversation.
7-I'm exhausted by it all. My heart is so broken after losing so many in my life to 'opioid' policies and practices, either directly or indirectly. NO ONE in positions of power can declare that what they've been doing is working. It's done the opposite.
8-Their own stats PROVE this.
It's time for things to change, for GOV to admit they got this whole thing wrong and that current policies are doing more harm than good.
IF saving lives is the goal.
#OverdoseCrisis #RxMedicinesSaveLives
It's time for things to change, for GOV to admit they got this whole thing wrong and that current policies are doing more harm than good.
IF saving lives is the goal.
#OverdoseCrisis #RxMedicinesSaveLives
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