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🚨 Here's a summary on the collaboration between the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and an England pharma company called Reckitt & Colman (later became Reckitt Benckiser, then Indivior) and their push of their buprenorphine products, Subutex and Suboxone, to market: 🧵

Medicine, as a whole, is dying all in the name of "Whole Health." Our ancestors are facepalming in their graves.

@Eadranai @SecVetAffairs @DeptVetAffairs x.com/i/status/17970…

@SecVetAffairs @DeptVetAffairs The seriously pisses me off because it's a choice on your part to post that you piece of s***, the VA knows 61% of veterans were under their care at some point that commit suicide, that's where I got the number from, but you will lie to the public for benefit of VHA lawlessness

60% of Veterans who die by suicide have had no recent contact with the VA. We're expanding outreach — UFC, MLB, NFL, rodeos, podcasts — to reach Veterans where they are. @DeptVetAffairs is here for you.

@PJRich13 @ibdgirl76

@ibdgirl76 Thank You Bev and the ladies from DPF for leading the fight against the anti opioid and addiction lobbies. I believe you all are making a difference, starting to crack the wall that was built against CPP and Doctors that fought to help their patients.

I have just sat through 6 hours of OIDA opioid document symposium. Once again, NOT ONE of the speakers has even bothered to mention the unmeasured astronomical harm done in the name of opioid reduction. Neither Harm Reduction nor Addiction Medicine give us a second thought. Remember, our sacrifice was demanded in the name of public health. I'm sickened and disappointed by all of them, once again.

When Veteran “Safety” Systems Become Veteran Surveillance: The Rights Gap in VA’s DBRS and Behavioral Flag System open.substack.com/pub/stevenmann…

@brahmresnik @AZAGMayes 👇😏 x.com/i/status/20545…

New AZ Auditor General report: "Arizona Department of Corrections spent $50.9 million of opioid settlement monies but lacks records supporting they were spent for approved purposes." This is a big "I told you so" for @AZAGMayes. kjzz.org/politics/2024-…

In Arizona, it wasn't just an "opioid crisis." But deeming it as such allowed the state to get grant money and sue opioid pharma. If they deemed it as a "meth crisis" or a "substance use crisis," the state wouldn't have gotten near the $$$. app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjo…

@END_JRN @ibdgirl76 It's all because of the addiction industry.

@END_JRN @ibdgirl76 Kinda makes you wonder why you hear a lot more about Oxycontin and hardly anything about the methadone overdoses, too. 🤔

A book on the history of Suboxone admits doctors worked around patient caps by documenting people as being treated for “pain” instead of OUD so they could prescribe Suboxone to more patients. And this was portrayed as noble. A workaround. A public health win. So let me get this straight: Lying in medical records about a controlled substance is acceptable depending on which patient population benefits? Because if pain doctors had done this with full agonist opioids, they’d be in handcuffs, indicted, and featured in a Netflix doc by Friday. But when it’s Suboxone, suddenly it’s innovation and a good thing. Indivior makes Purdue look like saints, yet somehow we’re all supposed to pretend this isn’t an opioid, wasn’t aggressively protected, and hasn’t been surrounded by a massive double standard from day one.

@ibdgirl76 How do you get around the ton of red tape for prescribing methadone for substance use? Get users the med in a doctor's office instead of a methadone clinic? Diagnose them with pain....prescribe the methadone.

@ibdgirl76 Vital Signs: Risk for Overdose from Methadone Used for Pain Relief — United States, 1999–2010 cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/m…

Sure sure sure, RFKjr and his trial lawyers won’t “ban” medicines, they’ll just “wake doctors up” and they’ll stop prescribing them. Good luck, psych docs! You were fine when they went after this class of meds! The real lesson is is we need to focus on education, autonomy, and personal responsibility.

@life_is_art___ Psych...

Cerebellar Stroke in January. Afib. Get Ablation in May. See a Hema-Onc next for possible Polycythemia Vera. Only given Oxcarbazepine and Cyclobenzaprine for pain by Neuro due to blood thinners. Ugh. What's next!? It can only get better.

We took a shot, and it worked. We’ve been given the green light to move forward at the federal level to address patient harm from opioid reduction. This issue has been ignored for too long. Now, we have a chance to be heard. If you want to support this work and follow along as this develops, you can join us here: 📷 patreon.com/thedoctorpatie…

@DrTomFrieden "While most people who use substances do not go on to develop a substance use disorder...: "And although relatively few who misuse opioids develop a severe use disorder (about 1% of Americans)..." -National Institute on Health (NIH) in 2022 heal.nih.gov/news/stories/p…

Did Cutting Prescriptions Reduce Addiction? The Data Says No. For a decade, the answer was the same — cut prescriptions. Opioid prescriptions fell 29%. High-dose prescriptions fell by over 60%. Total opioid doses were cut nearly in half. Opioid use disorder went from 2 million to 4.8 million. Prescriptions fell. Addiction rose. The FDA warned that cutting patients off drives them to heroin and fentanyl. Dr. @StefanKertesz documented forced tapering leading to suicide and functional decline. Cutting prescriptions didn't reduce addiction. It displaced it. 60 million chronic pain patients are still paying the price — for a policy built on the wrong data for the wrong people. One in four Americans suffers from chronic pain. This policy affects you — or someone you know. #SavingUsToDeath

The Opioid Crisis. The 2016 CDC opioid prescribing guidelines. Who was actually dying? Not who you were told. Illicit fentanyl deaths doubled in one year. 130% increase from 2013–2016. Patients on prescribed opioids? Less than 4% of overdose deaths. The wrong population paid the price. Someone you know deserved better than this. #SavingUsToDeath