On May 22, 2019, Don’t Punish Pain held rallies across the U.S. That evening, KATU of Portland, OR, broadcast a report by Jackie Lebrecque, featuring footage from Oregon’s Capitol Building in Salem, phone comments from Dr. Jessica Gregg, General Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine at OHSU, and brief remarks from Dr. Kevin Olson, medical oncologist…
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This post will examine the study entitled, “10kHz spinal cord stimulation: a retrospective analysis of real-world data from a community-based, interdisciplinary pain facility” and published 20 November 2018. https://www.dovepress.com/10-khz-spinal-cord-stimulation-a-retrospective-analysis-of-real-world–peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JPR This link is to the paper as it appears on the Dovepress website: Since I could not view the tables by clicking the links when I…
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On Wednesday May 22, 2019, Don’t Punish Pain had rallies across the U.S. Congratulations on doing a great job of organizing and communicating the message! Here’s a link to video about the rally in Salem, OR: https://katu.com/news/local/chronic-pain-patients-demand-state-federal-policy-makers-dont-punish-the-pain
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For decades, federal policies grounded in a long, expensive and failing policy of drug prohibition have created great difficulties for law-abiding Americans who have chronic and severe pain from medical conditions, diseases or permanent damage from traumatic injuries. Misinformation, distortions and political optics, have led government officials, most of whom have no medical training, to…
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Anyone who has been on Planet Earth for the past few years has been witness to the nonstop antagonism, belligerence and conflict between the media and the current administration. On any subject, any day, any time, the chasm between the the press and the president has been continuous, complete and beyond compromise. Foreign, domestic, economic,…
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The federal government’s Pain Management Best Practices Interagency Task Force has a draft report posted on the internet right now. Here’s the link to that report: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/final-pmtf-draft-report-on-pain-management%20-best-practices-2018-12-12-html-ready-clean.pdf This report is open to comments from the public until April 1, 2019. Here’s a link to where comments can be uploaded: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=HHS-OS-2018-0027-0001 The following is my comment:…
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Law-abiding Americans who suffer chronic severe pain treated with prescription opiates have been faced with ever more onerous restrictions, and even people whose emergency room visits would in previous years included a prescription for safe and reliable opiate medications are being sent home with over-the-counter pills. Meanwhile, there are numerous locations in our country where…
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To anyone who takes a deep look at the claims that the U.S. government makes about drugs it’s obvious that they contain an awful lot of inconsistencies, if not downright misinformation. In the 1930s, marijuana supposedly turned people into hyperactive ax murderers. In the early 1970s, the same drug turned people into ambition-lacking airheads; and…
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If I were a cop, I would not be happy about this In the US these days, discussions about crime are almost never just about crime, it’s always drugs-and-crime, as if referring to a single unified phenomenon, like a dog-and-pony show. But it was not always this way. In fact, for most of America’s 243…
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