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@CMerandi @SenJackReed The overall climate of our government is really bad. These people are so out of touch with reality.

What happened after I met with Senator Jack Reed? @SenJackReed Nothing. He doesn’t care about the victims of the untreated pain epidemic He said he would help. He didn’t. It’s time for new leadership

@LowKickLuke @amandatoryfigs @CMerandi And the reason everyone in this thread is fighting for people’s right to have safe access to FDA approved pain medication. It’s not for us that are healthy and just say hey you don’t need to take that. It’s for the people who need the pain meds and now can’t get them.

@amandatoryfigs @CMerandi I applaud you, and I’m glad that you’ve had good experiences with it. I agree that it’s totally possible to take the medication and be perfectly okay. However, it’s not that easy for everyone.

Patient cancels surgery after learning Yale New Haven Health does not treat pain postoperatively. Pain management includes chewing gum ERAS = torture

@CMerandi So sorry that happend to you and your family

My brother, Billy, fmer det-sgt Providence PD, died at 50 Adverse drug effect, NSAIDs - renal failure Unlike ibuprofen, opioids, do not destroy vital organs Happy heavenly birthday Stop promoting ibuprofen as safe

Worth watching

@RealRossU Stay strong.

I may lose my voice soon. I found out the Bureau of Prisons is thinking of preventing prisoners from having any social media presence (even those who have an account entirely run by a loved one, like mine). I’m scared I won’t be able to share my life with you anymore.

@CMerandi This is so sad and makes me so angry. The healthcare system today is very unkind.

I just received this voicemail Pancreatic cancer and booted from pain management. And, no, she wouldn’t benefit from a spinal cord stimulator, epidural steroid injections, Gabapentin or Suboxone

@CollinRugg These people have lost their fucking mind. And I was not a huge fan of trump. But the left has gone nuts for real. We are in 3 wars pretty much all they care about is Ukraine funding money for weapons.

NEW: MSNBC host Joe Scarborough says 81-year-old Joe Biden is the smartest and most analytical he has ever been. Not even North Korea can compete with this propaganda. “I'm about to tell you the truth… This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever, not a close second. And I've known him for years.” Go watch clips of Biden before 2010. Completely different person.

@SmithfieldFoods You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. Where is your humanity. Animals can feel pain. I hope no one buys your products anymore. I won’t be at all

At Smithfield Foods, our people and their families are top priorities. That is why we are proud to invest in their education through our partnership with Guild and our Smithfield Scholars program. brnw.ch/21wGoV7

@16bitnostalgia Turtles in time

What game are you wanting to play when you see this?

Pain med prescriptions did not cause opioid epidemic, courts rule – Mystery Wire mysterywire.com/top-stories/pa…

@jmkillingnyc @GBH Dr. Andrew Kolodny is a horrible human being. Things are only going to get worse and I hate that the narrative now is that fentanyl is an immigration problem. And no one is saying that the reason fentanyl is so bad is because they are not treating pain at all anymore.

It’s disgusting that the media keeps going back to the same corrupt #AddictionIndustryKeyOpinionLeaders whose predictions and barbaric solutions (that made them all very wealthy) have been a colossal failure. Shame on @GBH for using to the #DrAndrewKolodny as an informed source. Overdose deaths are rising because of HIS no quality evidence policies promising that overdoses deaths will stop if our government criminalized, terrorized and hunted innocent American citizens like me born with a horrific incurable progressive disease instead of combating #IllicitManufacturedFentanyl #IMF for the last decade. Once again they failed to disclose Kolodny exploited the IMF Epidemic blaming it on prescription medication to become a multimillionaire court grifter in opioid litigation. They are so so so incredibly stupid to still believe anyone who truthfully calls him a fraud, liar, thief, con artist providing indisputable proof is part of his imaginary “industry front group” without asking him to provide a shred of proof. All of @CDCgov @DEAHQ @supportprop @Pharmed_Out @ShatterproofHQ @JudyRummler demands have been abided. These zealots successfully Waged their ruthless War on Pain Patients ensuring nobody is permitted pain and suffering relief and #Suboxone is so aggressively marketed there are billboards offering it on side of busy roads and in RETURN the Illicit Drug Epidemic is at an all time high (pun intended) . Not only have none of these fiends been held accountable for misleading policy leaders using manipulated data Lie-By-Omission Manipulated Data from @CDCInjury #DrLenPaulozzi and @DEAHQ head of Drug Diversion #JoeRannazzi (another multimillionaire court grifter) but they are still touted as a reliable source. It’s completely unacceptable for any media outlet to believe a single word that comes out of their filthy devious mouths. It’s been a decade since Kolodny testified before Congress. All the Heroin has been replaced with more deadly illicit drugs like Tranq, Nitazenes and every innocent person with a horrific incurable bodily affliction has been medically abandoned, humiliated, criminalized, tracked liked animals using their highly profitable civil rights violating controlled medication only monitoring system and even by miracle we still have a compassionate doctor and pharmacist willing to care for us there is no legal medication because of @DEAHQ production cuts that were enabled and encouraged by lawmakers who worship The Kolodny Klan like a Cult. “Ending the epidemic will require both prevention and treatment. If we only curtail overprescribing without also expanding access to opioid addiction treatment, the outlook is grim. Overdose deaths will remain at historically high levels. Heroin will continue flooding  into our neighborhoods. And our families and communities will continue to suffer the tragic consequences.” Kolodny to Congress 5/14/2014. wgbh.org/news/local/202…

Easily one of the most prescient, courageous and consistent foreign policy critics of the last several decades in the US. Listen:

@stephenHRNRP If you ban fentanyl something more dangerous will appear, such as nitazines. 50 year failed war on drugs. We don’t need more criminalization. We need a safe supply of drugs.

While I’m not going to get into the policy problems from Jelly Roll’s testimony this week, I do want to highlight this section of his remarks that I take particular issue with… implying that somehow “addicts” aren’t “good people” or “normal”

@_jackmcpherson @JellyRoll615 Keep banning drugs and something more dangerous will follow.

Jelly Roll went to congress to get lawmakers to pass legislation to prevent the fentanyl crisis from getting worse than it already is in America right now As if I didn’t need another reason to love @JellyRoll615

@_jackmcpherson @JellyRoll615 Does anyone actually realize that we can’t arrest our way out of this problem? 50 year war on drugs and only getting worse. Check out Switzerland or Portugal solutions. We have the lowest prescribing in 50 years and the most overdose deaths. Pain patients force tapered.

@ggreenwald Don’t ever stop doing the work you are doing. I really feel like everyone is nuts until I listen to system update.

Everyone is now Media Matters: on the hunt for anyone who expressed views they hate on social media in order to get them fired, then celebrating their head on the pike. (Beyond loving to do that, Media Matters is one of the most vocal supporters of Israel's war in Gaza).

@RobertKennedyJr RFK I hope you get elected, us in the middle class are getting hammered I watched a a poor family at market basket getting their car repossessed the other day and our leaders can’t stop talking about Ukraine. Our leaders are out of touch with reality

What’s America's #1 priority? Mitch McConnell says it is to provide assistance to the Ukrainians. Is that true? Or is it only the priority of the Democrat and Republican Beltway elites?

@sheldonbailey @andrewkolodny @brianlilley Your mad that people can get access to safe fda approved opioids. Let’s let them use fentanyl and die. Prohibition does not work. Safe supply is the only way out.

READ: @brianlilley shows the hypocrisy of the Trudeau government settling with Purdue Pharma 104 days after they announced the expansion of a "safe supply" program to hand out Purdue's Dilaudid torontosun.com/opinion/column…

@andrewkolodny Shame on you. I don’t know how you sleep at night. The only thing Purdue is guilty of is that they made something that works too well. One day you will be in pain. And I pray that no relief comes to you

Opioid consumption is down 65% from 2011 peak but we still have a long way to go before we're at rational levels. The U.S. has had highest per capita opioid Rx for decades and we still have the highest per capita opioid Rx in the world.

@andrewkolodny I don’t think we had a prescription problem. Opioid deaths are up 700% and prescribing is at an all time low. Real people are having a hard time getting fda approved opioids. My father has cancer and it’s like pulling teeth. And you help put 70 year old doctors in jail.