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Lawrence A. Tabak

@NIHDirector

Replying to

@SteveFDA

@NIDAnews

and

@US_FDA

Agreed, @SGottliebFDA! #NIH is working actively toward a partnership with

@US_FDA

and other leaders at

@HHSgov

and the private sector to bring forward the best science of our agencies to tackle the opioids crisis. This is all hands on deck!

8:13 PM · Jan 27, 2018

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A 7 percent increase in opium sales predicted this year, next year, the year after that...

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How about STOPPING the use of the buzzword "opioid" &, call it what it really is ... A Heroin & Fentanyl crisis. ?? You can achieve the same end w/out using a perverted means. Or, have we become more Machiavellian than a Constitutional Democratic/Republic? CPP lives matter!

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It is NOT an Rx #opiodcrisis! Pls don't perpetuate the myth courtesy of our #cdc and the 'fake news' hyperbole. It's illicit fentnyl/heroin. Millions have had their pain abandoned and the vulnerable pay for it. #painkills #shareourpain #intractablepain #ourpain #crps 🐝

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In case y’all have not noticed there is a #PainSuicide crisis, which was 100% predictable. By continuing to refer to #HeroinFentanylCrisis as #OpioidCrisis you’re stigmatizing CPP who benefit from pain rx. youtube.com/watch?v=FYvyah #MedsDenied is not medicine!