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Opioid Use in the Treatment of Chronic Pain: Assessment of Addiction jpsmjournal.com/article/0885-3…

U.S. Attorney EDMI I have just been contacted by an investigative journalist from Atlanta and we set up an interview schedule for 8/2/25 to discuss U.S. vs. Bothra et al. Evidently she’s been working, for the last 3 years, on a series documenting the criminal targeting of pain care specialists by

The dangerous pseudoscience of “dopamine addiction” and “dopamine hits:” “Health experts and the popular press tell us that fun activities can give us “dopamine hits” and that overindulging can result in “dopamine blowout.” Indulging too much in naughty activities (somehow, it’s

Andrea Anderson Dopamine is not why kids love heroin or cocaine either, despite research showing dopamine plays role in substance addiction it’s obviously more complicated than a simple dopamine hit. Current obsession with labelling popular “vices” as addiction is another flavour of moral panic.

Katherine Wanita Umer 🇨🇦 When opioids are indicated. Pay attention. And pain can absolutely kill you. Elevatd cortisol levels = endocrine/hormone dysreg, CV disease, immune suppression, neuro sensitization, GI dysfunction...and even suicide. You're a stone cold bitch if you think pain doesn't matter.

A Doctor Changes His Mind About Opioid Prescriptions In Greed to Do Good, a former CDC physician calls the agency's war on opioids a disaster: “The CDC's main error, LeBaron argues, was treating the opioid "epidemic" the way it had long treated communicable diseases: by trying

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Went out to hang clothes & the heat is extreme for this area. I had to stop, put on my bathing suit & jump in the pool. Then I finished hanging the clothes in my wet bathing suit to keep cool. Then I went in The house & changed back into clothes. When it came time to hang the

Andrea Anderson The CDC guideline was nothing more than a public health experiment. But as LeBaron points out, CDC never bothered to track how their “experiment” affected public health. Amazingly, they still haven’t made any such effort, nearly a decade later.

CHRONIC PAIN PATIENT POLL: Have you been harassed, bullied, discriminated against, or mistreated by a pharmacist filling a legitimate legal prescription for pain medication?

New rule proposal: People discussing the effects of substances should have firsthand experience with said substance. Otherwise, please remain silent. *Tripping for four days*. 🙄

What PROP wanted, but didn't get: 1) Hard dosing limits of ER/LA opioids 2) Limiting ER/LA opioid use to palliative care (which they wrongly conflated with end-of-life care) 3) FDA to abandon the concept of pain-adjusted OUD prevalence (which estimates OUD prevalence at less than

U.S. FDA You can find the full Drug Safety Communication at this link: fda.gov/media/187944/d…. Again, FDA found the prevalence of moderate-to-severe OUD to be 1.4% to 1.6% in patients using opioid to treat pain (pain-adjusted OUD). Don't be fooled by their figures on MISUSE (any use

Chad D. Kollas, MD (he/him/his) Isn't it fascinating that one of the talking points of litigation narrative was that Purdue dared to claim that only 1% became addicted, and how awful that was, but the label now shows that they weren't really far off.

Chad D. Kollas, MD (he/him/his) My post on the subject x.com/aander1987/sta…

Chad D. Kollas, MD (he/him/his) Chad D. Kollas, MD (he/him/his) I hope you don’t mind if I share some information. I found the US_FDA document page where thdvgrsph can be found. I included the free copy of the entire DSM 5 (which needs to go needs to be tossed into a dumpster fire), an opioid litigation Oklahoma document that

Ansam Groshong Per the U.S. FDA: "The pain-adjusted DSM-5 OUD definitions incorporated reason for opioid use (i.e., pain-related or not) when determining whether each DSM-5 symptom of OUD was present." (Italics mine).

Ansam Groshong U.S. FDA Your question is insightful, Ansam Groshong. Because the non-pain-adjusted figures (shown as DSM-5-OUD any) included patients who disclosed that they were taking pain medications for non-medical reasons (to get high or to mask anxiety) and specifically NOT for controlling pain.

the public is trusting science less.

What does grossly over stating OUD accomplish aside from less public confidence in medical science?