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Dear healthy ppl, I was you. I took life for granted too. But shit happens. Life is messy & unpredictable. It can change in a minute. If you become disabled w/ illness & pain, you’ll have to fight stigma & discrimination, like me. You’ll wish healthy ppl would help fight w/ you.

Just a shakedown. Gov'ts own data=> there is NO correlation of Rx volume with non-medical use/addiction. Policymakers won't own up to fact that their policy, prohibition caused the crisis. Instead they extract a pound of flesh from scapegoats. wsj.com/articles/johns… via @WSJ

If your mission is to fight drug addiction, is it ok to throw a vulnerable population under the bus, ppl suffering painful conditions? Do the ends justify the means? Or does that make you a moralistic hypocrite? (Correct answer-#2) We all matter. RX opioids are not the problem.

Actually, patients have a legal right to have factually accurate truthful information entered into their medical record. Speculation based on the cynical belief that most patients are liars doesn’t meet that threshold. Not even close.

Why don’t you volunteer to have a total knee replacement (w/o spinal, epidural, or peripheral nerve block) and let’s see if Tylenol and Advil work as well as fentanyl and morphine after the surgeon saws thru your tibia. You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.

This woman is smugly and profoundly ignorant. Spend a day w/ an anesthesiologist and a recovery room nurse and see how your belief about opioids plays out. 🙄

You don't have to be in pain to be threatened by opioid hysteria. This happened to me in 2016. It wasn't the least bit amusing. 'Opioid Denial: My Own Harrowing Experience' acsh.org/news/2016/12/2…

It's the government (CDC, DEA, DOJ, Payers, etc.) that has gone too far with the CDC opioid guideline, not doctors. Doctors are only responding to pressure from government. bit.ly/2VUydWO via @PDXBIZJournal

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If the tired false @supportprop overprescribing myth was reality, medmal lawyers (like me) would be overrun w/ pts suing MDs for addiction/ wrongful death. There are very few such suits b/c vast majority of opioid deaths are due to illegal opiates like heroin & illicit fentanyl.

More #JunkScience for anti opioid crusaders to wave in the face of the chronically ill and disabled... Florida Has Successfully Withheld Pain Meds From Surgical Patients. Aren't They Special? | American Council on Science and Health acsh.org/news/2019/07/3…

'Florida Has Successfully Withheld Pain Meds From Surgical Patients. Aren't They Special?' acsh.org/news/2019/07/3…

The Pain Patient seeks opioids to manage severe, physical pain so they can have a chance to live their life and have a good quality of life. The Addicted person seeks opioids so they can get high and escape their life. Do you see the DIFFERENCE America? #opioidhysteria #pain

@JoshBloomACSH So, Lord Of the Seven Kingdoms? Do you get to use the dragons?

@ShareOurPainAR That's because I'm King of the Andals and First of My Name.

'Opioid BS From BBC - A Royal Pain' More nonsense from the other side of the pond. acsh.org/news/2019/07/2…

New Doc: Don’t confuse your Google search with my 4 years of Medical School Patient: Don’t confuse your 4 years of medical school with my 20 years of living with the fucking disease

@washingtonpost Are you stuck in a time warp, reporting this one-sided sensational story over & frigging over? We get it, addiction in Appalachia, too many RX opioids, at one time. It stopped. Now what about the disabled in pain now denied needed pain meds? Do their destroyed lives matter too?

Flooded with opioids, Appalachia is still trying to recover wapo.st/2YiSEtP

Take this Dr Evil Kolodny! I wish Josh Bloom had his own dragon to slay your white walker self! Must read for all Kolodny haters! acsh.org/news/2019/07/2…