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Fortunately, the recent court determinations rejecting anti-opioid’s "public nuisance" arguments in California and Oklahoma will potentially serve as the opportunity to turn the tide of blatant misinformation being relentlessly shoved down the throats of the naïve public.

Less the potential of being awarded mindboggling sums of pharmaceutical company earnings, it would appear the principal motivation ($$$$) of the entities pursuing such litigation has been primarily eradicated from the equation.

Consequently, now would appear to be the opportune time to finally get rid of the false narrative and replace it with the truth.

Pain patients are not now, nor have they ever been the primary source of the government-created overdose crisis.

Get the government out of our doctor's offices!

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Well done, Peter.

I communicate weekly with patients who have been force-tapered and denied safe and effective opioid therapy because of the false narratives being peddled by people like Alex Gibney, Andrew Gibmen and Anna Lemke. Interestingly, Lemke's supposedly "expert" testimony on behalf of a prosecutor going after a pharmaceutical company was recently rejected by a judge who found that the medical literature from which Lemke quoted did not support the conclusions she drew from it. Likewise, judges in California and Oklahoma have recently thrown out "public nuisance" lawsuits against pharma companies, on similar grounds.

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How do we get to Netflix/HBO to tell our side of the story: THE CHRONIC PAIN PATIENT CRISIS?

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Pete,

This is simply brilliant.

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Wow. Your article is an absolute crock of shit. Well respected pain doctor Webster?! The script he'd given that poor woman was excessive even for someone with terminal cancer never mind a bad back. Get back in your box you muppet 🤬

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A truly excellent and incisive article ! These are indeed the Dark Ages of the inquisitional medicalization, monetization, and specious criminalization of human suffering and its relief. The inhumane and self defeating circular firing squad of weaponization of ignorance is complete. There exists a small notational error where it comes images. That is Jeffrey Singer, MD shown pictured on the (left), and Michael Schatman, MD shown pictured on the (right) in the article.

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Kolodney made a fortune running Suboxene clinics, with intrest in NARCAN. Kolodny’s Phoenix House drug rehab spun out of control | EDS and Chronic Pain News & Info https://edsinfo.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/kolodnys-phoenix-house-drug-rehab-spun-out-of-control/ THEN you had Redfield vowing revenge 'war' becauce his Heroin Addict 37 yr Muscian old son OD'D cocaine or heroin depending on the news you read laced with Chinese Fentanyl https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/cdc-chief-says-fentanyl-almost-killed-his-son-n891976

CDC Researchers State Overdose Death Rates From Prescription Opioids Are Inaccurately High | Cato @ Liberty https://www.cato.org/blog/cdc-researchers-state-overdose-death-rates-prescription-opioids-are-inaccurately-high.

Few words were written that Forced Tapered Patients died of heart attacks, suicide. Or turned to illicit street drugs. Blaming pain pills https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/26/blaming-prescription-pain-pills-opioid-epidemic-fake-news/?fbclid=IwAR1-1J1k50le1TH25Cek8LFpFNZz9ughsLqOhE3-17TlV_ErG2v5TQsWybY#.XamnDrO3vPC.facebook

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Words mean things, 'chronic' is a lesser pain, Intractible Pain is Cancer level, doesn't have to be cancer caused, falls, car wrecks, war wounds, diseases like AA Adhesive Arachnoiditis. Untreatable by anyother means.

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iNTRACTABLE PAIN IS HIGHER CANCER LEVEL THAN 'CHRONIC' PAIN. W

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Thank you for telling this from the pain patient’s view. All of the people who have deceived and continue to do so will answer have to answer for their actions someday.

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