Brian Forman

Look around you. Is someone you know in pain? In 2016, an estimated 20.4% of U.S. adults (50.0 million) had chronic pain and 8.0% of U.S. adults (19.6 million) had high-impact chronic pain, with higher prevalence associated with advancing age. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6…

@TheRebelPatient Thanks Doc! We're doing ok; kids and work keeping us busy, can't complain (could, but who would listen, amiright?) Hope you and yours are all doing well. I'm not on twitter much these days, now that COVID and telework are slowed. Glad I happen to check it! 🙂

@Tootwisted40 Hey Brian, Good to see you here but not for a couple of months! Checking in to be sure that you’re okay 👌 💕 Wishing you and yours all the best!

Look around you. Is someone you know in pain? In 2016, an estimated 20.4% of U.S. adults (50.0 million) had chronic pain and 8.0% of U.S. adults (19.6 million) had high-impact chronic pain, with higher prevalence associated with advancing age. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6…

@ThomasKlineMD acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M1…

@Tootwisted40 link to article?

"Chou co-authored an article with PROP President Dr. Jane Ballantyne and PROP board member Dr. Anna Lembke that encourages doctors to taper 'every patient receiving long term opioid therapy.' " painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2019/1…

Great news heading into the holidays! On 20 November 2024, DEA & HHS extended the full set of telemedicine flexibilities regarding the prescribing of controlled medications as were in place during COVID, through December 31, 2025. 👍🙏🫂 #ChronicPain telehealth.hhs.gov/providers/tele…

Saw this and decided to do a little Gemini query to see if those studies existed, got some interesting results instead. 😅 #CPP #Pain #Followthemoney Check it out: g.co/gemini/share/f…

“As unpleasant as it may be, the evidence is in: chronic pain may produce a loss or atrophy of brain tissue.¹⁻⁸ All practicing physicians and their surrogates and allies must immediately begin understanding the ramifications of this finding.” practicalpainmanagement.com/pain/other/bra…

New Hampshire - total drug OD deaths by a patient, under the care of a physician, using the opioid medication prescribed to them in 2022? ZERO, not a one! Yet the NEPO Strike Force, the DEA, and many elected officials continue persecuting doctors & patients! Why? @SenatorHassan

Attention: Please see the resources @national_pain has developed to respond to the CDC updated draft Guideline, below! #AdvocacyAlert #Pain #Opioids #CDCGuideline

“We wanted to be very clear in this guideline that this is a clinical tool. It’s intended to support individualized patient centered care. “There is a role for opioids in pain management and if the decision between a provider and a patient is to use them, {here's}a safe manner.”

Barely slept last night. The pain is intense and brutal. #EDS #Fibromyalgia #ChronicPain

Finally, some progress from the CDC. 🙏🫂painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2022/2…

acsh.org/news/2021/07/0… It's time to call out PROP for its undue influence, sleight-of-hand with facts, and the damage the group has done.

Here are the options for people with chronic #pain w/o #opioids 1. Use illegal drugs and risk accidental overdose 2. Die (by #suicide or stroking out) 3. Have a non FDA approved medical device implanted in the spine (if insurance pays and there's $) That's it.There's nothing else

It makes me so ANGRY that this country makes it so difficult to be disabled. It just SUCKS THE LIFE OUT of families and individuals. Instead of lifting folks into security and productivity, we rip the rug away from their feet at every fucking opportunity.

How do you think I feel personally about using opioids for treating my chronic pain? I'm angry. I am now relegated to a wheelchair secondary to my completely dislocated left hip. I chew chronic pain 24/7. I get no opioids! I used to be on a 100 mcg/hr fentanyl patch and prn med

Launching #DontTellUsTellThem campaign! Simple @resistbot open letter to sign on & send to your elected officials! Lots of ways to do your part, if you are familiar with resist .bot: …-resistbot-website-ed6e4f.netlify.app/petitions/POQH… if not, click👇 for more details &/or help: PainAdvocate.org

The FDA Is Failing the American People pharmaciststeve.com/?p=36374

Another unsurprising development, but will anything change? 🤔