I'm going to assume that EVERY SINGLE member of congress is making money on the "opioid crisis " bc none of them will listen to patients who are DYING from pain related complications, being kicked out of HOSPICE FOR NOT DYING FAST ENOUGH while their providers are imprisoned.

Arianne I've been so angry every day. I'm not an angry person. I was always happy, not anymore. Ppl r mean & Dr's r condescending. I'm sitting in rheum ofc I'll be seen in an hr. They don't care. They don't mask they make fun of me. F this BS already. SO done.

"We are prisoners, yet have committed no crime" We are guilty and there's no way to prove our innocence. We can follow all the rules, pee test, have pill counts, try every other treatment - and we're still labeled with OUD, denied meds and left to suffer. For our own good. 🙄

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Great discussion. I joined a little late but what I did hear was important. Now to figure out how to get media and the public to listen in. #PainCareCrisis

I was targeted again in a FB group for using the hashtag #LegalizeToSaveLives. Tired of being ostracized in groups for people who have lost loved ones to street drugs, for not towing the litigation narrative line. #overdose #harmreduction #DesireeForever35 #TravisForever39

People with #severeME are dying at an astonishing rate - usually either from malnutrition or euthanasia/suicide - and yet some doctors still feel entitled to say stupid shit like, "I don't believe in ME." #MedTwitter #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis

🚨 MDs dismiss the needs of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis patients, leading to needless suffering and even death. Medical professionals MUST recognize and address this debilitating illness. Patients deserve better care and understanding. 💙#MECFS #Healthcare #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis

I've had post MONO #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis since 1984. It was relapsing-remitting until a serious C-spine injury, then I lost access to effective pain management due to draconian rx 'opioid crisis' policies. Severe pain led to a rapid progression of my #MECFS. #PainCareCrisis

The reality that for MOST people #opioids are safe and effective medicines to treat pain has become an inconvenient truth in the face of ongoing Propaganda fueled lies. #opioidhysteria. #PainCareCrisis

Death by chronic pain is usually death by a thousand cuts. However, some can die quite suddenly from pain induced sudden cardiac arrest or stroke as well. What is happening to people with serious illness and injuries is nothing short of Crimes Against Humanity. #PainCareCrisis

Everyone once again talking about the “overdose crisis” who are clueless about ALL that is going on with different seperate groups in our population- unaware of we chronic severe intractable pain PATIENTS & our drs being vilified & blamed for it all when it’s NOT true& WE suffer

When it comes to #overdose we mostly hear about 'addicts' or the tragic story of a beloved actor/actress/musician 'taken too soon'. Media glosses over deaths of non addicted drug users, kids experimenting, and pts whose only options are now suffering, suicide, or the streets.

Most don't know about the national surveillance systems that monitor innocent sick & injured pts who take certain medicines-or that it's a tool to instill a CHILLING EFFECT on MDs who prescribe. It's medical Stop & Frisk as well as State sanctioned torture and murder. #Overdose

Arianne This how DEA busted me. In need of medical care for TMJ, which was relatively unknown at the time, doctor A would send me to Dr B and so forth. Along the way each would give me Rx for pain meds and so I was arrested, sent to prison, for "fraudulent obtaining".

Medical surveillance. National surveillance. It's the way the govt keeps track of every pill prescribed to those MOST IN NEED, monitoring our Drs while hundreds of thousands r dying of #illicitstreetdrugs Is this a way to live? #DEA #CDC #Drugpolice

Been working on a throw sized blanket in the Step2It CAL by Polly Plum while I'm laid up. Border for it will released next week and then it will be finished. Working with a mohair/acrylic yarn blend. Loving the colors. Made a beautiful, soft knit scarf in this yarn too.

It seems I may have #LongCovid heart related issues in addition to the #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis I've had for 4 decades. Tests being scheduled to see what's what. Since having SarsCoV2 last Oct my heartrate has slowed significantly and have had several 'chest pain' episodes.😓