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Over the next few blogs, we’ll be sharing a series of stories of people whose pain became so severe after the CDC “guidelines” were released and the States rushed to enact even tougher laws in an effort to show “progress” towards curbing the heroin crisis, causing a chain reaction of media hype meant to stigmatize and further antagonize chronic pain patients. This, along with attitudes from some physicians that regardless of whether the patient will decline, opioids will be reduced significantly or discontinued all together due to the government’s new opinions and instructions on opioid treatment for long-term use.

For many people, they know what type of pain they were in prior to the implementation of a pain management plan consisting of opioid treatment in conjunction with other modalities which was working nicely for them.  For the majority of these patients, the pain never “goes away”, it just gets…

Surgeon General Call to Action Falls Short | Huffington Post by Lynn R. Webster, MD Author of “The Painful Truth”

Law-enforcement seizures of illicit fentanyl have soared, changing the face of drug-related deaths and necessitating new public health strategies to meet the evolving threat.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an 80 percent increase nationally in synthetic opioid deaths from 2013 to 2014, an increase that coincides with a 426 percent rise in the number of drugs containing fentanyl seized by law enforcement.

The country is being overrun with truly deadly drugs that are killing increasing numbers of people, yet the CDC remains focused on prescriptions for pain patients.  

Neat, Plausible, and Generally Wrong: A Response to the CDC Recommendations for Chronic Opioid Use – Medium
Stephen A. Martin, MD, EdM; Ruth A. Potee, MD, DABAM ; and Andrew Lazris, MD

Finally, someone is standing up for the truth about opioids and pain patients. These three courageous M.D.s expose the CDC guidelines for the fraud they are.