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@aander1987 @AmerMedicalAssn @ChadDKollas Also, I spoke w a Tom Steyer staffer at a rally. She was totally oblivious to 2016 CDC Guidelines, opioid-policy harms. However, Steyer spoke about ADA fondly and I had the opportunity to quickly mention to him Kate Nicholson as CPP drafter of ADA regs. Steyer was interested…

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@aander1987 @AmerMedicalAssn @ChadDKollas I set up those meetings between Beth Darnall and Sen. Mike McGuire tho I think he is a lost cause/my next Congressman, unfortunately. Fiona Ma is state treasurer and is Dem pick for Lt Gov. Her close friend is CPP, had to shop pharmacies re Opioid Settlement. Ma gave me her card.

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@JaymetheRN American corporate medicine puts profit over patients & care providers. We don’t take care of docs and nurses, we stab them in the back. My better half’s pain management doc said,”Who, in their right mind, would want to become a doctor now?”

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@PeterTina973 @ibdgirl76 People should be able to use the medicine that works for them. However, opioids, unlike gabapentin, have been weaponized to marginalize/demonize entire populations of people to serve political and big money agendas. Pushback is understandable, unlikely to hinder gaba access.

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@ibdgirl76 Perhaps, though ‘un-scientific’, the undocumented lies, half-lies, disinformation told to pain patients in hospitals should be archived as well. I.e.”We’re giving you dilaudid!” Yes, but at non-efficacious levels. “I called your pain management doc.” Uh, not what the PM doc said.

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@good1372 @ibdgirl76 Even the doctors who are serving time in federal prison for treating pain patients humanely?

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@billmaher Maher’s assessment of Graham Platner was stunning in how he so boldly made denigrating pronouncements based on the most salacious, superficial bits of garbage floating in the sewage of today’s American journalism. I doubt Maher devoted more than 60 seconds to researching Platner.

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@DanLairdMD @LuaneLittl32359 Are the pressures on VA pharmacists different from those at corporate chains like CVS or Walgreens? VA more about ideology/bias vs corporate capitalism AND ideology/bias?

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@FEDUpRally Dr Nora Volkow, Director of Nat Inst. on Drug Abuse, cited, in her blog in 2020, a report that showed the current OD epidemic had started AT LEAST by 1980, 15 years before OxyContin. At Switzerland addx treatment center that uses pharma heroin…. zero deaths. Pharma vs cartel…

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@FEDUpRally Dr Nabarun Dasgupta said a possible reason was “depletion of susceptibles”. He stresses it was NOT connected with forced reductions of pain meds to chronic pain patients. His team found Rx opioids had no influence by mid 2000s, 2005 maybe.

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@CMerandi There’s a methadone dosing video from Ontario, avg dosing was 730 MME by my calculation. In N Calif, RN told us her friend in addiction treatment said avg was around 700 MME.

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@StanfordPain Add to the pain and loss societal disregard and refusal to acknowledge human suffering by political, medical, MEDIA and legal, law enforcement institutions. All see and enable, silently. PROP, Kolodny, Lembke et al are the architects weaponizing the worst in humanity.

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@ReportingHealth It completely amazes me how prescribing has plummeted, overdoses have skyrocketed and journalists just sit there, stupid, mute and complicit.

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@ReportingHealth Will there ever be a day when journalism, writ large, ever addresses the role it played in driving up drug overdose deaths by demonizing pharmaceutical opioids, making them radioactive, thus driving people to unsafe street supply? Journalists have failed to ask good questions.

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@ReportingHealth @TheImprintNews Calif led the nation in the heyday of American eugenics, enthusiastically aiding the Nazis when help was requested. Sterilizations continued through 2013, incarcerated Black and Brown women in later years. Reparations program enacted, final payments ended on Jan 1, 2026.

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@ChadDKollas @Katamac1967 @jmkillingnyc @Publix Really can’t wait to see it!

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@FEDUpRally Dr Phillip Coffin, core expert 2016 CDC Guidelines has underlined Rx restrictions didn’t apply to long term pain patients. As did Dr David Kan, testifying at Med Board of Calif and 2023 CA State Legislature Hearings on Fentanyl. Kan, former Pres of CA Soc of Addiction Medicine.

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@FEDUpRally Keith Humphreys, in an interview w Brian Mann of NPR, admitted his colleagues were quietly prescribing opioids to PROTECT their patients from unsafe supply.

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@FEDUpRally This moronic, dangerous article cites stats from JAMA who have largely supported chronic pain patients having agency in their own care. A participant at a AMA House of Delegates conference re draconian opioid policy quipped “The beatings will continue until attitudes improve.”