Yancy

🚨 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: 🧵

"When left untreated or unrelieved, chronic pain can contribute to depression, anxiety, poor sleep patterns, decreased quality of life and substance use disorder—making it a risk factor for suicide."

3/10/26 "Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability for those who have served, and severe pain is 40% more common among veterans than nonveterans. What’s more, this pain can often be accompanied by coexisting mental health conditions"... dav.org/learn-more/new…

"Among veterans who died by suicide between 2021-2023 and whose deaths were reported by VA suicide prevention teams, the most frequently identified risk factor was pain." VA Releases Newest Veteran Suicide Data. 2/13/26 military.com/daily-news/202…

Interesting study. Democrats tend to blame opioid manufacturers. Republications tend to blame people who use opioids. They’re both wrong. Want someone to blame for overdose deaths that came after 2016 and were largely caused by illicit fentalogues? Blame @CDCgov, @DEAHQ, @supportprop and the federal & state lawmakers who listened to them. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

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

It wasn't the Sackler's Oxycontin... Source: SAMHSA 2009, DEA ARCOS 2010 via CDC publications medbox.iiab.me/modules/en-cdc…

We have a lot of free resources at DPF that we have put together for you, so you don't have to. This section is one I am particularly proud of. It's the Debunking Lies section of the most frequent false info the anti-opioid narrative repeats: thedoctorpatientforum.com/debunking-lies/

AMA 2025 report on substance use and treatment Jan 12, 2026 ama-assn.org/press-center/a…

1/12/2026 AMA: Opioid Prescribing 2012-2024 Retail ⬇️ 52% MMEs ⬇️ 65% Buprenorphine ⬆️ 83% Sources: ama-assn.org/system/files/o… end-overdose-epidemic.org/sites/end_over…

@headdock @ibdgirl76 @MattWalshBlog “Multimodal” pain care: force-feeding patients a cocktail of low-risk, low-efficacy placebos until someone calls it ‘clinically significant.’

@ibdgirl76 @MattWalshBlog Bev, advocate intensely for evidence-based multimodal care, and perhaps things will get better. Advocating for opioids will only make the views of chronic pain sufferers more negative.

Euthanasia is spreading like a cancer. It’s already one of the leading causes of death in Canada. Western civilization is quite literally killing itself. Conservatives should be spending a lot more time speaking out against this. It’s one of the darkest evils we face in modern times.

For those who insist that the Sackler/Purdue Oxycontin started it all... the CDC says this: "While all prescription painkillers have contributed to an increase in overdose deaths over the last decade, methadone has played a central role in the epidemic." medbox.iiab.me/modules/en-cdc…

CDC's NCHS - February 2008 Increases in Poisoning and Methadone-Related Deaths: United States, 1999-2005 cdc.gov/nchs/data/hest…

Table 1. Number of poisoning deaths in which specific narcotics and psychodysleptics are mentioned: US, 1999-2005 Table 2b. Percent distribution of deaths with mention of methadone for injury and noninjury causes of death: US, 1999-2005 cdc.gov/nchs/data/hest…

@yancykm CDC=Dumbasses.

"Historically, CDC has programmatically characterized all opioid pain reliever deaths (natural and semisynthetic opioids, methadone, and other synthetic opioids) as "prescription" opioid overdoses. -CDC (January 2016) cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/m…

2011-2022: "opioid prescribing declined in US NHs, affecting residents across all pain levels. These reductions parallel national patterns in primary care and may reflect implications of opioid-related policies, such as the 2016 Guideline, extending beyond their intended setting.

November 3, 2025 Opioid Prescribing Patterns (for 2011-2022) in US Nursing Homes by Race and Ethnicity jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Even in a highly observable and controlled environment of a very vulnerable population, pain isn't being treated... because the addiction industry has caused an over-exaggerated opiophobia.

The "Relief of Chronic Pain Act of 2025," What It Really Does, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters Read more here ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ patreon.com/posts/14265734…

Interview I did a few months ago is out. INVESTIGATING GENERICS: Decades of Recalls Reveal Flaws in the U.S. Opioid Supply Chain  - medshadow.org/generic-opioid… via @Med_Shadow

Example showing Methadone being reported amongst "prescription" opioids: CDC NCIPC report (2019, page 111) permanent.fdlp.gov/gpo109641/2019…

"four in ten overdose deaths involving single prescription painkillers involved methadone, twice as many as any other prescription painkiller." CDC/SAMHSA 2009 medbox.iiab.me/modules/en-cdc…