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Mar 24 11 tweets 6 min read
Let's break down #TheGreatOpioidLie.
1-"Over-prescribing was the cause of the opioid crisis."
First according to the Medical Board of CA, there is no legal definition of 'overprescribing'.
Second, it is a THEORY that the mandate to treat pain led to the overdose crisis
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2-The Gov's own stats disprove the access theory. As access to RX meds declines we continued to see a steady increase in drug deaths.
Seems something else might have been a the heart of why we saw a rise in ODs and continue to see record numbers of PEOPLE dying.
#ChornicPain
3-Could it have been the collective trauma we all experienced after 9/11, then we sent our loved ones off to war, and they were being sent home with broken bodies, then the financial collapse, outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, people losing homes, retirement, investment accts... Image
4-Then enter PROP's RX opioid 'guideline' published through CDC and the PDMP. THE foundations for #PROHIBITON in medical practice re: controlled substances, beginning with #OPIOIDS, but it didn't end there.
Now we see ADHD & anxiolytics on the chopping block.
#Adderall
5-We saw how the 'opioids are dangerous drugs' narrative morphed into 'polysubstance is killing people' as we pushed back. At first the 'illicit' part was left out a lot, but as illicit Fentanyl became the lead cause of drug deaths, facts have slowly been coming to light. Image
6-Let's now the 'RX opioids are dangerous drugs' part of #TheGreatOpioidLie.
Truth is, opiate class medicines are no more 'dangerous' than most prescribed, and even some OTC medicines.
In fact when taken as RX's opioids are very safe and effective for MOST people.
7-We could take a lot of meds and examine 'safety'.
Let's take drugs on the market to treat arthritis for instance. Biologics.
Drugs like Remicade, Humira, Enbrel, to name a few.
These meds can be deadly when taken EXACTLY as prescribed. Yet no 'crisis'. jsonline.com/story/news/inv…
8-We could discuss our nation's more obvious hypocrisy about alcohol, legally available at almost every corner market and grocery store yet just as deadly in numbers as illicit #Fentanyl.
Yet no alcohol crisis.
9-Might as well move on to the whole, "But those #opioid drugs CAUSE #addiction!"
Fact is, drugs don't 'cause' addiction.
Nor does alcohol, sex, food, gambling, or thrill seeking.
MOST people who drink, are exposed to drugs, eat food, gamble, etc. have NO issues w/addiction.
Addiction/SUD is a far more nuanced problem and is very individualized, driven and made worse by various factors like social determinants, mental health issues, despair...
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10-This was just a brief overview of how the misguided & deadly #WarOnDrugs became a #WarOnPainPatients, all based on the #GreatOpioidLie.
We MUST demand that the CDC publicly announce that they got this whole 'crisis' WRONG and return sanity to the practice of medicine.

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Mar 23
1-How is the #WarOnPainPatients being waged, let us count the ways...
You're probably seeing an MD because OTCs aren't working.
You're told ibuprophen works well for pain & offered an RX for ibuphropen.
You decline as you've been taking it OTC for months.

You just refused meds.
2-If you counter any aspects of #TheGreatOpioidLie, citing facts vs fiction...

It's can be charted that you're emotional-hostile-agitated.
'Drug seeking' behaviors.
*Women are often labeled hostile just for being in assertive when dealing with people in positions of power. 😔
3-If you have a #chronicillness that includes fatigue & pain syptoms and you taking an opioid...

It's the opioid making you somnolent, tired, depressed, not your illness or pain.
And this can be used as an excuse for an MD to taper or discontinue opioids or even benzos.
Read 7 tweets
Mar 19
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. 😔
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.
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.
Read 8 tweets
Mar 16
1-
Every pain patient should know our history and know who Siobhan Reynolds was.

#ChronicPain #RememberingSiobhanReynolds
Read 4 tweets
Mar 7
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.

'PAIN TREATMENT ISN'T BLACK AND WHITE'
3-Following are close ups of the poster.
Read 7 tweets
Mar 7
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.
Read 7 tweets
Mar 3
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…
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