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F.D.A. Did Not Intervene to Curb Risky Fentanyl Prescriptions nyti.ms/2Kr4jji
Physicians should be more closely limited in prescribing drugs not approved for other use.
The Fentanyl deaths scandal should be a warning, since Fentanyl is intended ONLY for use with cancers.
Physicians should be more closely limited in prescribing drugs not approved for other use.
The Fentanyl deaths scandal should be a warning, since Fentanyl is intended ONLY for use with cancers.
Part of the Fentanyl catastrophe and resultant opioid crisis is that FAR TOO MANY physicians prescribe (even as we speak), Fentanyl for people with chronic muscular or chronic nerve pain, instead of a more judicious use of combo NSAIDs and non fentanyl opioids.
Fentanyl needs to be reserved only for cancer patients.
Also we must find a better law enforcement approach to synthetic, illegal fentanyl. This is what opioid addicts turn to as their bodies adjust to heroin.
We need a true approach to the opioid crisis.
Also we must find a better law enforcement approach to synthetic, illegal fentanyl. This is what opioid addicts turn to as their bodies adjust to heroin.
We need a true approach to the opioid crisis.
The NRA has deep ties to accused Russian spy Maria Butina (she is a lobbyist not a "spy" but whatever)
Looks like weapons traffickers have been using NRA as a business-finding front for some time
motherjones.com/politics/2018/… via @MotherJones
Looks like weapons traffickers have been using NRA as a business-finding front for some time
motherjones.com/politics/2018/… via @MotherJones
[2] I am a #2A advocate , and #NRA member . But when it comes to weapons trafficking, that is a no-can-do .
And now we have to face the code-red alarming reality - the current new NRA president is none other than #OliverNorth ... from the days of #IranContra
And now we have to face the code-red alarming reality - the current new NRA president is none other than #OliverNorth ... from the days of #IranContra
[3] The Swamp is everywhere
Dont get tripped up:
* The #NRA is not the #2A
* @realDonaldTrump is not "establishment GOP"
* #UraniumOne far worse than guns
* #IranContra / #AwanCOntra included DRUGS -> #OpioidEpidemic
* A few Russians is not a Russian state-sponsored conspiracy
Dont get tripped up:
* The #NRA is not the #2A
* @realDonaldTrump is not "establishment GOP"
* #UraniumOne far worse than guns
* #IranContra / #AwanCOntra included DRUGS -> #OpioidEpidemic
* A few Russians is not a Russian state-sponsored conspiracy
.@AlexVASheriff, @AlexandriaVAGov officials, and a couple that lost a child to opioid addiction, talk about the importance of proper disposal of unused or expired prescriptions #AlexandriaVA #DelRayVA #OpioidEpidemic
A Navy admiral lost his son to opioid addiction. Now he’s marshaling support to end the epidemic. wapo.st/2AiKdWX?tid=ss… @SAFEprojectUS #SAFEUS #OpioidCrisis #OpioidEpidemic
I have just discovered that #Oregon is proposing changes to the state #opioid policy for #chronicpain patients on #medicaid.
I am incensed and I don't even live in Oregon. So let's break this down. #disability #opioidhysteria #spoonies #painpatients #opioidepidemic
Buckle up.
I am incensed and I don't even live in Oregon. So let's break this down. #disability #opioidhysteria #spoonies #painpatients #opioidepidemic
Buckle up.
CW: ableism, bullshit, suicide, swearing
References:
portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/4013…
nationalpainreport.com/chronic-pain-a…
References:
portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/4013…
nationalpainreport.com/chronic-pain-a…
To summarize:
-Oregon's Health Evidence Review Commission and Value-based Benefits Subcommittee (HERC and VbBS) are proposing changes to Medicaid
-The changes intend to discontinue long term opioids for chronic pain patients
-Oregon's Health Evidence Review Commission and Value-based Benefits Subcommittee (HERC and VbBS) are proposing changes to Medicaid
-The changes intend to discontinue long term opioids for chronic pain patients
@CBSNews I'm going to say this and some of you won't like it....but it's the TRUTH:
I want everyone to notice how most of the Caucasian (white) people are talking around this discovery
"I hope their remains can be respect fully laid to rest"
"Maybe now they can rest in peace"
"So sad"
I want everyone to notice how most of the Caucasian (white) people are talking around this discovery
"I hope their remains can be respect fully laid to rest"
"Maybe now they can rest in peace"
"So sad"
@CBSNews They've already moved on.
But most importantly, these are words to convince us "Black" people to move on.
Or they speaking about these 100 black bodies as if they can now be apart of some great mystery....a good will quest of sorts:
"Maybe their families can be found by DNA"
But most importantly, these are words to convince us "Black" people to move on.
Or they speaking about these 100 black bodies as if they can now be apart of some great mystery....a good will quest of sorts:
"Maybe their families can be found by DNA"
@CBSNews How many of the people with their soft words and motions of sympathy
ask questions like:
"Are any of the White men in my family responsible for these deaths?"
"Who murdered these men?"
"How many White people in this town knew?"
All these questions come to for Black people.
ask questions like:
"Are any of the White men in my family responsible for these deaths?"
"Who murdered these men?"
"How many White people in this town knew?"
All these questions come to for Black people.
The GOP ties #FamilySeparation to #ImmigrationReform b/c the families they're terrorizing are immigrants. But those are TWO SEPARATE ISSUES. That's like tying #UnlawfulPoliceShootingsofBlackPeople to the #OpioidEpidemic because you know people feel icky about addicts. 1/
The GOP is using public distaste and bias against immigrants to force our acceptance of state violence. What if your postal carrier pepper sprayed you if you parked more than 18" from the curb? I hate bad parkers. We all do. The campaign could catch on. #ParkingSpaceFaceMace 2/
They say, "We can either keep families together at the border or fix immigration." By marrying these two DIFFERENT issues under single category of "Immigrant problems," the GOP forces a conversation in which cruel family separation is treated as a reasonable option. IT'S NOT. 3/
Some people are curious how not having my full course of meds keeps me from working full time.
This is where I'll start the story of #myspoons today.
This is where I'll start the story of #myspoons today.
Not that I owe them shit. But maybe you or a #spoonie squad member of ours might find it relevant or helpful.
So in a nutshell, the less pain I'm in? The more I can do.
"But Tinu" some y'all say, "If your work is mostly digital, aren't you good as long as you have a laptop & a computer connection?"
Haha nawl!
"But Tinu" some y'all say, "If your work is mostly digital, aren't you good as long as you have a laptop & a computer connection?"
Haha nawl!
#RETWEET
If you Vote to Infringe 2nd Amendment Rights WE will Vote to Make sure you do NOT get elected in November
@SenDonnelly @SenBillNelson @SenatorHeitkamp @SenatorBaldwin @SenatorTester @clairecmc @SenStabenow @SenSherrodBrown @Sen_JoeManchin @SenBobCasey
NO #GunControl
If you Vote to Infringe 2nd Amendment Rights WE will Vote to Make sure you do NOT get elected in November
@SenDonnelly @SenBillNelson @SenatorHeitkamp @SenatorBaldwin @SenatorTester @clairecmc @SenStabenow @SenSherrodBrown @Sen_JoeManchin @SenBobCasey
NO #GunControl
(2) Guns haven't suddenly become more easily accessible.
What has happened that is causing the murder rate to go up? #RT & Share to see all of thread & WHY we don't need #GunControl 📲
What has happened that is causing the murder rate to go up? #RT & Share to see all of thread & WHY we don't need #GunControl 📲
(3) In the case of mass shootings, the answer is that the US refuses to do anything about the dangerously mentally ill, Bullying, brainwashing and #GunfreeZones
[1] #AboutTheOpioidEpidemic : There was a 300% rise in annual #opioid overdose fatalities in the past 10 years, mostly correlated with the #Obama presidency (Here are numbers for #Mass) : 
[2] #AboutTheOpioidEpidemic : What most have not noticed, the OD RATES are highest in battleground electoral states. Not blue, not red - Battleground. Very high correlation . 
[3] #AboutTheOpioidEpidemic : Nearly 200,000 American lives have been lost in the #opioidEpidemic . Possibly even 300,000 . While the media howls about #Charlottesville which was tragic, the #opioidepidemic is still rarely mentioned.
Doctors are no longer a driving part of the #OpioidHysteria. They never really were. Why why why are we still getting these stories instead of what’s really going on? Alt facts much? How very Trumpian. News media needs to take a good look in the mirror & start facing the truth.
Define “overprescribing” please. 91 ppl per day die from overdoses: from what exactly? Which meds? Multiple meds or just Opioids? God I’m fucking tired of this whole bs narrative still going on.
How about the painful stories of vulnerable ppl -disabled-Veterans-elderly- being cut off from #opioids & committing suicide b/c their pain is so bad?? #SuicideDue2Pain #PainKills
