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@TaniaBurgessTX The system: tell patient, we're finding it's dangerous to co Rx anxiety meds/pain meds. Cut anxiety meds. While pt is still lost over being blindsided, tell pt,oh we have to stop pain meds. Then to physc. Oh,not doing well. You have SUD/OUD. Nice game

Saturday morning and the stories are still coming: • Beaten black and blue, broken elbow — sent home with no treatment • Stage 3 uterine cancer, total hysterectomy — 5 pain pills total • Ruptured distal bicep — ER said “nothing wrong,” sent for psych eval This isn’t rare. It’s policy. Drop yours in the thread below — every reply tags them. @HHSGov @SecKennedy @DEAHQ @CDCDirector @Surgeon_General We’re just getting started. #PainIsNotACrime 💜 x.com/tlchronicpain/…

@CMerandi @supportprop Happy Birthday 🎂

Today is my birthday - I plan on being here another 40 birthdays to raise awareness to what the doctors of @supportprop have done to millions Has your life improved since being ripped off your pain medication or benzodiazepine?

“Just Another Drug-Seeker” – Until You Scratch the Surface ER bay 3. A woman curls around her ribs, sweat-soaked gown clinging to her skin, tears carving rivers down her face, voice shattering as she begs for anything to kill the fire. The nurse mutters, “Here we go.” The doctor rubs bloodshot eyes: “Where are all these addicts coming from?” So tired. SCRATCH THE SURFACE She’s a mom of two toddlers. Car wreck last week – broken rib. Surgeon gave 3 days of hydrocodone. “You’ll be fine with Motrin after.” Tonight she tripped over a toy, slammed the floor, pain detonated – every breath a blade, every sob a betrayal. She can’t lift her babies. This isn’t seeking. This is desperately clinging to a broken system that withholds relief. Why so quick to label “drug-seeking”? Med school propaganda + burnout. We think doctors would know the truth about opioid medication, but they’re taught opioids are a huge addiction risk when the facts don’t fit. They get just 9 hours total on pain, heavy on “crisis” horror, light on nuance (AAMC 2018). Residencies hammer CDC caps as gospel. Even when they do know opioid medication is not the addiction risk it is touted— 60% of EM docs fear DEA discipline for easing agony (AMA 2021). The flood has staff drowning – patient cries turn into “addict” shorthand as a shield against the chaos. Why the flood? Surgeons, pain doctors, family practice – they can’t refill pain meds without fear of the DEA throwing them in jail, whether the patient’s need is real or not—it doesn’t even enter the equation. Caps backfire – pain isn’t adequately treated, increasing ER pain visits 30-50% (JAMA 2022). Adding to this pain crisis, chronic pain patients are left to suffer with meds cut or taken away. It’s getting worse – 60% of pain specialists plan to quit or go opioid-free due to stress and hassle (AMA 2024). Where do pain patients turn when uncontrolled pain spirals into debilitating agony? The ER is all they have – and the ER doesn’t want them. This is a broken pain care system causing a full-blown Pain Crisis. ER’s are overflowing with patients with untreated pain. Doctors still practice in fear. @SecKennedy ignores the pain community, continues the opioid propaganda—facts forgotten, care restricted, relief withheld—patients crucified, treated with disbelief and disdain. PAIN ISN’T SEEKING, IT’S SURVIVING. Teach doctors the truth about opioids—end the fear-based care. Stop letting exhaustion crucify the hurting. Allow doctors to prescribe adequate pain coverage—prevent the ER overflow. Share YOUR story below—let’s amplify the truth together! @JointCommission @AMA @CDCgov @SecKennedy @DEAHQ —fix the broken system. @StefanKertesz @KlineDr69402 @jmkillingnyc @ibdgirl76 — @TLChronicPain #PainTruth #ChronicPain

Joe, You really should have @CMerandi on. She's been way over looked. Just do it!

Pain pts are accused or "causing a division" with them and addicts. Once again, I am showing you that we did not cause the division. Addiction medicine, the lawsuits, and Critical Drug Theory did. Are you unable to push for Suboxone without demonizing opioids for pain, which has become exceedingly difficult to access thanks to addition medicine?

Here’s what a real market would look like: Every hospital and clinic posts real all-in prices. Certificate-of-Need laws are repealed so new entrants can compete. Nonprofits lose tax exemptions if they hide prices or hoard profits. Employers and patients contract directly with physicians, no rent-seeking intermediaries. Subsidies stop flowing to insurers and “health systems” that game risk pools and call it reform. Free enterprise isn’t the problem. Price opacity is.

BROKEN JUSTICE: PRESUMED GUILTY, DOCTORS JAILED, PATIENTS SUFFER x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

We don’t need another “replace the ACA” white paper. We need to remove the rules that make competition illegal and prices invisible. 1.Repeal the physician-owned hospital ban so specialists can build and expand facilities again. 2.Abolish CON laws so incumbents can’t veto their future competitors. 3.Enforce site-neutral payments, equal pay for equal care. 4. Fix 340B: sunset it or open it to independent practices on equal terms. 5.Tie nonprofit tax exemptions to audited, patient-level charity care. 6.Let DSH, UPL, and GME dollars follow patients and training wherever they actually happen. Then mandate real price transparency: machine-readable, line-item prices for every CPT, DRG, and NDC; API-accessible; and enforced with penalties tied to Medicare eligibility. Do that, and markets do the heavy lifting: employers buy care directly, physicians federate, entrepreneurs build exchanges, and consumers get thousands of new options, from catastrophic-only plans to subscription-based care, priced in the open. End structural favoritism. Enforce transparency. Unleash competition. America doesn’t require a new entitlement. It needs a fair field and known prices.

66% of the U.S. population can thank their GOVERNORS for their sky-high insurance premiums. They are directly responsible for 20% year over year increases in insurance premiums. This is a RED state and BLUE state problem. Certificate of Need laws aka CON laws let health systems and insurers block independent medical facilities from opening. Your governor could lower your premiums mañana…

Thank you @ChadDKollas I’m attaching a direct link to submit a comment. Please repost, thank you. We need everybody to submit a comment even if it’s just a few words. Please everyone must show the @US_FDA we are not going be silenced by pharmaceutical lobbyist @supportprop. Thank you regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-…

I watched the entire Senate hearing with RFK Jr. I need to set the record straight. And I have a message for the Senators who have presided over the mass poisoning of our children. 🧵

Many of us know how hard it is for Anne right now. She's given so much to our community. Let's come together to help her with medical expenses. Every bit counts. Please consider donating and sharing. gofund.me/85def76b

@ibdgirl76 This Bull

The demographic reaching out to us about forced tapers and patient abandonment are like 80% women ages 55-80. This is the age group least likely to become addicted or OD. So why are they being targeted like this? Certainly makes you wonder about ulterior motives, doesn't it?

@drkeithsiau LDN Took away most inflammation In turn helping fatigue. Slowly easing in to healthier foods to avoid the anxiety Thus avoiding more inflammation.

Please share your best tips for managing fatigue in fibromyalgia 🙏

@Katamac1967 Way too many of these videos, they need to check themselves. Uhm, there's a reason... Most meds don't last the "4" hours let alone 6. The system needs to reevaluate

This gentleman can’t stand it when patients in pain (or family members) “be on the call light for pain meds”. Sorry, but pts & their family have to alert Nurses. If they allow the Nurse to decide when to bring #opioid pain meds they’ll be writhing in pain forever…. #pain #CPP

@billkinkle 100 percent correct

@DanLairdMD @questdiag I know this one all too well

@PainPtFightBack Speak lies 1st (Planting the seeds) Then disclose financial ties while ppl are too busy running with the lies. They don't see the corrected disclosure. So we're all liars when we point out the ties, because the seeds are already planted😡

2/ Yet, today Dr. Ballantyne denied any “financial relationships” prior to providing her statement during public comment.

1/ After being urged to do so, Drs. Ballantyne, Lembke, & Chou, amended the disclosure statements they filed with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. static1.squarespace.com/static/54d50ce…

@DanLairdMD It's time for every last one of these ppl to be unseated. Out with old. Back to a house for the ppl not against...

To Catholics and Catholic priests, the seal of the confessional is inviolable. Catholic priests will not violate canon law and will go to prison before doing so. The Washington law is unconstitutional and needs to be challenged.