WAR on Pain Patients

Activism runs in my blood.

Many of my Facebook friends recognize me through my efforts to advocate for balanced healthcare policy.

However, what most may not know is that my inability to stay quiet in the face of an injustice is deeply rooted in family history - it’s in my DNA.

Karen Silkwood, a cousin of mine, was the one-woman wrecking ball who ignited the movement for workers’ rights and safety in the 1970s, challenging Kerr-McGee with unyielding courage.

My latest article reveals the David vs. Goliath battle that Karen waged and how her relentless spirit has been a profound source of inspiration in my own advocacy against injustice.

Join me in exploring her remarkable story and its lasting impact on our fight for a better world…

Defying Giants: A David vs Goliath Story Explore the inspiring story of Karen Silkwood, an ordinary worker who became an extraordinary advocate for safety and environmental protection. Learn how her courage and strategic advocacy in the face of corporate negligence exemplifies the power of ethical activism in achieving monumental change.

Oklahoma Sickle Cell and Palliative Care bill, HB3073, passing the floor of the House! Listen as a few Oklahoma Representatives prove WHY we needed this bill in their questions! Most of the opposition were convinced that this was unnecessary be...

Now that our Border Patrol agents are too busy processing Biden's guests (a/k/a asylum seekers), the Mexican drug cartels are now using maximum manpower to smuggle TONS of illicit narcotics across the border which will rampantly increase the number of overdose deaths. Who do you think will absorb the blame & suffer the grave consequences of their methodically staged evil narrative? Hint, it WON'T be the drug dealers.
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2021/3/20/dea-drug-cartels-targeting-pain-patients-as-potential-customers?fbclid=IwAR1PMJ1uxox58B4vV_IcQrOrPBkrJeUWyxoKpJaZHJ-9Nuh6_wNh34xSUFQ

DEA: Drug Cartels Targeting Pain Patients as Potential Customers — Pain News Network By Pat Anson, PNN Editor The Drug Enforcement Administration’s “National Drug Threat Assessment” is an interesting annual report that gives insight into drug trafficking and drug abuse trends in the United States that you don’t often see in the mainstream media.. The DEA’s 2020 report , re...

Here are 6 recent studies & articles that show the harms being caused by the current push to de-prescribe opioids at all cost.

We need a different policy approach to opioid prescribing. This seems to be causing more deaths and suffering than allowing stable patients to remain on long term opioid therapy.

Next post I will share recent conclusions about the related harms of remaining on long term opioids - hint, they are no where near what has been claimed!

🎯In the ~2 years after taper, of which the vast majority are provider initiated (forced), all cause mortality is ~20%.

https://bit.ly/Tapers1

🎯Higher rates of suicidal ideation & suicidal violence are found in patients following tapers.

http://bit.ly/tapers2

🎯Rapid opioid taper, often due to policy pressures & rush to get doses below a specific & arbitrary threshold, can be detrimental in the long run.

http://bit.ly/tapers3

🎯Trends identified in tapers show more women than men are rapidly forced to taper. Majority of the tapers are far faster than CDC & HHS suggest.

http://bit.ly/tapers4

🎯More than 50% were suddenly discontinued & approximately 49% of those had an adverse opioid related health care event.

http://bit.ly/tapers5

🎯Tapers are associated with subsequent termination of care.

http://bit.ly/tapers6

Something Awful Seems to Have Happened to the CDC This article, in a slightly edited form, first appeared on Pain News Network on August 29, 2020.   For most of my career, I have revered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I believed it had the best scientists in the world and that we could, and