@DrTomFrieden Patients are suffering and dying without plain control & That's on you. All the street Fentanyl OD's, that's on you. Crawl back under the rock you crawled out of.
@DrTomFrieden "Expert apolitical CDC guidance.." When the FDA refused the "Opioid Guidines for prescribing " (cuz THEY regulate medication), YOU made it an "epidemic" and passed them as "CDC Guidlines.." Patients are suffering due to your POLITICAL & CORRUPT acceptance of unscientific BS
@DrTomFrieden It's the same thing you did with Opioids which are listed as ESSENTIAL medicines which also reversed DECADES of advances in pain management. It's called karma.
RANT WARNING:
Dear fellow physicians,
Please cut the crap with the "opioids are bad" trope. It's simpleminded and harmfully stigmatizes patients with high-impact chronic pain. It's ableist. And - much of the time - it's racist (I see you, sickle cell patients).
If you're reluctant to prescribe opioids, fine - then don't. And don't project your fears onto those of us responsibly addressing pain care for patients with serious, life-limiting illnesses. We are not drug dealers. I get paid the same whether I prescribe an opioid or not. I don't take money from pharmaceutical companies for research or to prescribe certain drugs. I am not anyone's shill.
If you don't know your state's laws for opioid prescribing, admit it - or look them up and learn them. Don't make up stupid💩about prescribing restrictions that don't really exist (and yes, I know some states have misguided hard dosing limits, but not Florida). Don't lie to your patients to hide your ignorance.
Opioid therapy isn't for everyone, but there is clearly a group of patients for whom benefits exceed risks or harms. You're not "protecting them from addiction" when you falsely accuse them of misuse, addiction or doctor shopping. Please, please just stop screwing these people - and stop screwing the physicians willing to help them.
Signed - Compassionate pain care physicians everywhere who are absolutely done with the systemic disinformation about opioid therapy
#hapc #hpm #PainCareCrisis
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@heartsofpa1m@life_is_art___ You are 100% WRONG. The poor and working poor will lose medical care unless they can buy it themselves. They don't want poor people or disabled people to receive care that they think "they're paying for". The poor and sick have no value to them, they're a BURDEN.
@life_is_art___ You ARE going to lose medical care. They don't want disabled people. They are them as a burden and a threat. Best of luck finding reliable, sound, science based medical care ANYWHERE in these United States.
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