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The Doctor Patient Forum is a non-partisan 501(c)3 that works to support pain patients and their providers. National org in all 50 states.

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Public Health, Privilege, and Who Gets Sacrificed I listened to a new interview with Richard Besser, former CDC acting director and now head of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. https://t.co/Xh15NDesOb
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If there is an algorithm that spits out risk scores for your doctor before you're even seen in the office, should that algorithm be black box? Should your doctor know what goes into it? Should you have access to it? Should someone regulate it? The NarxCare docket is still open,
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Opioid "Stewardship": Following the Eugenics Blueprint? Many people tune out as soon as we say opioid policy is a slippery slope into eugenics. The word "eugenics" is radioactive, but let's look carefully at the similarities. https://t.co/FngZ3K7CF4
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💊Benzos, Bureaucracy, and the "Over-65" Cut-Off Club Read more about this here ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/iYiTn8clqR
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@CMerandi
Claudia A. Merandi
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Pain clinics are gimmick clinics Most will dope you up on gabapentin/Cymbalta/Lyrica/amitriptyline/lidocaine infusions while experimenting on your spine Remember, they’re banking on your desperation
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Why Doctors Yell at Pain Patients and Get Away With It https://t.co/ANac2UjSpy via @YouTube
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NEW 10/10/25 Today was another installment of New Jersey's Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day Learning Series, featuring Andrew Kolodny. You can watch it here ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/aKz3jtdriI
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@ibdgirl76
Bev Schechtman🇮🇱
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$1 Million in Suboxone Money — NEJM Still Published Him without any disclosures. Where is the outrage? Or is it ok when it's the government's opioid of choice? For full video go to our Patreon page. https://t.co/3IpLubAUQc via @YouTube
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Bev Schechtman🇮🇱
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https://t.co/BR8KqUe95m While media continues to claim that opioids are handed out like candy, here’s another double mastectomy patient who is not receiving pain meds, one day after her procedure in the hospital. Media doesn’t like to cover that, why is that? @greggutfeld
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2055 likes, 814 comments. “Day 2 double mastectomy Please research the hospital before procedure”
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@CMerandi
Claudia A. Merandi
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Michigan OPEN is the thoughtleader behind the Tylenol only mastectomy Look what they did to this poor woman
@michigan_open
OPEN
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@UmichPoverty and OPEN have partnered to create a new Michigan Landscape Map highlighting counties affected hardest by the opioid crisis. This tool can be utilized by organizations to target education and resources in areas most impacted. Learn more here: https://t.co/DcCMyjgjyc
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The Doctor Patient Forum
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Suboxone Exceptionalism: Now Featuring... Sublocade for Pain! Have you seen the commercials Indivior has been pumping out for Sublocade recently? Well how convenient that they also PAID for this study. Sublocade for pain! https://t.co/S01mA4oWN2
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@ibdgirl76
Bev Schechtman🇮🇱
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Addiction medicine has hijacked pain care in this country. While they opined about pain as the fifth vital sign, they quietly pushed SUD screening to take its place. Pain care is seen through the lens of addiction, taught by addiction medicine, with Suboxone as the punchline, as
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Life Is Art Carrie🐦‍⬛🔥
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@CMerandi @LizCho7 @VertexPharma @PaciraBio @CMerandi They took the article down. Lmaooo
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Claudia A. Merandi
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The people who portray themselves as caring the most care the least @LizCho7 cares nothing about women’s rights because this isn’t the first time she’s applauded a Tylenol-only mastectomy @VertexPharma or @PaciraBio is behind this She’s evil
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More here 👉️ https://t.co/xong8Wz2Ru | Research shows that mastectomy and reconstruction surgery are among the highest-risk surgeries associated with opioid use. By using a special technique that blocks the nerves sending pain signals, women can get through their entire
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Advocating for the Truth About Opioids: Dr. Kollas' Response to Jama https://t.co/xFXOGNnta9
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All roads lead to Suboxone, by design 💰💰💰
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Claudia A. Merandi
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“All patients receiving services at A&M Pain Management are required to attend a psychiatry appointment at least once every three months” This is discriminating against the disabled class of individuals
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Shocking Secret Exposed https://t.co/s8fhnP5YWT via @YouTube
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$1 Million in Suboxone Money — NEJM Still Published Him https://t.co/LmjWrV8Aej via @YouTube
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Claudia A. Merandi
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Of course Council to Prevent Opioid Dependence is friendly with @andrewkolodny of the anti opioid organization, @supportprop Birds of a feather flock together https://t.co/HmfRQ5qIbo
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