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The @CDCgov opioid GL was intended to be voluntary, but became de facto rules. They leaned heavily toward addiction/OD concerns & not enough toward pts living w/ severe chronic pain. Of course they stayed silent about this for almost a decade. Tens of millions have been harmed.

@DavidESmitty @LuaneLittl32359 Great news!! Hope you have a great Birthday!!🎉❤️

PAIN PEEPS! I am transferring my care to the place where I went today. I felt HEARD, and that they WANT me to thrive and have the best life possible. Everything went better than I expected. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME INDEED!

EVERYONE must demand from our legislators that this nonsense STOP. How health care lobbying distorts the U.S. opioid crisis kevinmd.com/2026/04/how-he… via @kevinmd

The Chart That Destroys the Prescription "Opioid Crisis" Myth #cdc #opioidcrisis #chronicpain #myth #PROP linkedin.com/pulse/chart-de…

where is chronic pain pts' rights to life, liberty & pursuit of happiness? pharmaciststeve.com/where-is-chron…

millions of chronic pain patients continue to suffer since losing their medication Why?! Because the DEA/CDC/payers are using the 2016 CDC guideline What’s the solution? De-implement it @POTUS could do it with an executive order

FEDERAL CRIMINALIZATION OF PAIN & PROPERTY RIGHTS, THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT PEOPLE IN PAIN (NCP3) CHALLENGING UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PAIN-CARE POLICY PERSECUTION IMPLIMENTING PROF. RICHARD EPSTEIN’S “5TH AMENDMENT TAKINGS CLAUSE #NCP3 #advocate youarewithinthenorms.com/2026/05/14/fed…

This, 💯!! 👇🏼

Well, I was just given a legal opinion by a San Francisco attorney, who believes that the only remedy for pain patients is a LEGISLATIVE REMEDY. He stated that we have NOT been deprived of Life without Due Process, and the reason is that the health agencies and their Advisory Committees and the Legislatures at the federal and state level have studied the issue and have made determinations (good, bad, or indifferent - and of course WE KNOW that the data they used was corrupted, and we KNOW that several authors of the CDC Guidelines have ADMITTED that the "opioid crisis" was "erroneously blamed on "prescription opioid medications," when in fact that phase of the crisis had ENDED by the time the 2016 Guidelines were published - see both the Aubrey and Carr study and the Jennifer Oliva report, both cited in my papers). So, the legal framework is that we received our "Due Process," however flawed that is, and a lawsuit is not the way to get remedy at this point. So. That means we all now have to get involved with approaching our legislators, and it would be BEST if we get our advocates and doctors to approach the legislators, like the National Council to Protect People in Pain, and Dr. Kollas and others who completely disagree with the government's position, and who have data to back it up. And I know that NCP3 has just newly formed and will be working on that @JonelleElgaway @lawhern1 . As far as the proposed RICO case is concerned, I personally disagree with the opinion that we "do not have a case," but, it requires a federal prosecutor to sign off, so we would have to have a very lengthy discussion and documentation session(s) with the prosecutors' office. So, if anybody has an in with a federal prosecutor or State Attorney General, now would be the time to engage them. We have literal libraries full of documentation about what has happened here, namely, an industry- funded push to eliminate the use of "prescription opioid medications" and to switch to partial-agonists buprenorphine and Suboxone, even though the manufacturer court documents state that neither of those are indicated for the treatment of pain. And all kinds of shady connections between industry, non-profits, university personnel, professional organizations, that when you add it all up, it is my belief that there absolutely *is* a potential RICO case here, for causing literal harms and deaths to patients using fraudulent claims about "full-agonist" pain medications, fraudulent statistics, etc etc. But, the idea of getting a prosecutor to agree is a whole other subject. So, I will continue to proceed with my video channel to begin to document cases of harms and deaths caused to patients, so as to push the government to begin to tabulate these harms and deaths, to raise public awareness, and to encourage public contact with Congressional Representatives and Senators. Doctor Patient Forum already began that process with the Congressman who attended the Atlanta meeting. We have lots of work to do, folks. The Courts are apparently NOT going to be on our side of this issue, which is a failure of the structural nature of our government. It most certainly is not from a lack of trying on our part. LOVE ALWAYS David E Smith Buckeye, AZ

A Decade of Suffering: How the Opioid Panic Abandoned Pain Patients acsh.org/news/2026/05/0…

Please check out our resources for patients page at ncp3.org. The site resources are coming live. And we have much to offer all chronic pain communities, each with its own voice. #NCP3 #resources #advocate #educate

Lying about a diagnosis is FRAUD. That's a crime, not malpractice (the point being that these prescribers would face jail time if prosecuted).

Pain kills. Yet every day in America thanks to our CDC and AMA, people are dying because of pain. Treatment of pain or the lack thereof is shoddy and criminal. Listen closely.

Meanwhile, psychiatrists DESTROYED the pain care system in the USA, using fraudulent claims about "prescription opioid medications."

Gregg says: "You've gotta look really hard to find somebody who accidentally OD'd on their RX meds. They're all suicides". Pain patients are being euthanized, while OD's in the elderly are up +9000%. Suicides? Nobody cares enough to count. We're being erased. @greggutfeld - HELP!

OK, since I am getting pissed off about this alleged "high risk of addiction" for "prescription opioid medications," I want to break down some math. See if you can stick with me: So there are (allegedly) in the USA approximately 210,000,000 people ages 18-64. Allegedly, 12.6% of people ages 18-64 filled a prescription in 2024 (which would be 26,460,000 people). 26,460,000 X 0.1% iatrogenic OUD = 26,460. So, we could expect that 26,460 people developed some sort of opioid use disorder out of the 26,460,000 people who were prescribed an opioid in 2024. According to SAMHSA data, from the "Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States: Results from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health" report, "4.8 million (or 1.7% of people aged 12+) have OUD." Now, first we have to understand how this survey was conducted to learn about how its numbers may be skewed, so let's begin there. "National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is an annual survey sponsored by SAMHSA within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)." OK, so for this 2024 survey, and the report published in July 2025: 70,241 age 12+ were interviewed. 56,228 age 18+ were interviewed. 14,013 age 12-17 were interviewed. "National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) covers residents of households and people in non-institutional group settings (e.g., shelters, boarding houses, college dormitories, halfway houses)." "The survey EXCLUDES people with NO FIXED ADDRESS (e.g., people who are experiencing homelessness and not in shelters), military personnel on active duty, and residents of institutional group settings, such as jails, nursing homes, mental health institutions, and long-term care facilities." So, since the survey excludes homeless people, like all of those living on the streets of San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, NYC, Baltimore, and on and on, we KNOW that the numbers are skewed and that this report should indicate that there are MORE people with OUD than are being reported. With that in mind, and knowing that the report extrapolates the percentages obtained by the survey respondents out to the general population, the report indicates that: "4.8 million (or 1.7% of people aged 12+) have OUD." Recalling the earlier number listed for the number of people ages 18-64 who were given a prescription for opioids in 2024, or 26,460,000, and that given the rate of iatrogenic "addiction" of 0.1%, we would have 26,460 persons developing OUD after being given a prescription (although we would expect there to be MORE cases if we were able to obtain the numbers of prescriptions given to persons ages 12-17, but that number was not available, so we will just use the 26,460 and assume that it includes ages 12-64). So, the total number given by the report was 4.8 million. 4,800,000 - 26,460 = 4,773,540 cases of OUD in 2024 with no prescription. Mind you, we do not know whether the persons reporting OUD in the 2024 survey were given a prescription in 2024, further complicating our comparison. But, according to this data, there were 4,773,540 cases of OUD reported in 2024 FOR WHOM NO PRESCRIPTION WAS WRITTEN (and most likely this number is larger, since homeless and incarcerated persons were not interviewed). But, based on this (flawed) examination of the data, when attempting to learn how many of the people reporting OUD had been prescribed an opioid by a doctor, 26,460. ? --------------- X ----------- 4,773,540. 100 when solving for the missing number, we get 0.55 This means that one half of one percent of the people reporting OUD in 2024 had been given a prescription, and 99.45% of those reporting OUD obtained the opioid on an illicit basis. So I ask you, if the total number of opioid prescriptions filled in 2024, reported to be 120.4 Million, 99.45% of people reporting OUD in 2024 did NOT have a prescription, where is this "HIGH RISK OF ADDICTION?"

The CDC admits that overdose deaths among the 65 plus population surged 9000% since the latest war on opioids. They actually want us dead. It hasn’t saved any street addicts, and has killed untold thousands of chronic pain patients. asahq.org/about-asa/news…

Attorney-backed PROP "experts" and opportunistic government officials and politicians "solved" one problem and created at least 3 - all worse- in the process.

@PainSteals @DavidESmitty @SecKennedy "If you take opiates and your life gets better, you are a chronic pain patient. If you take opiates and your life gets worse, you are an addict." We are not the same. #SavingUsToDeath

How the Opioid Epidemic Abandoned Pain Patients