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Alex Azar is the 24th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (@HHSgov). Privacy policy: http://hhs.gov/privacy.html 

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    Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 19

    Each life saved from addiction is an important victory. And while the opioid epidemic still rages, we are now seeing signs of national progress. As @POTUS has declared, “failure is not an option, and addiction is not our future.”https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/09/19/donald-trump-opioid-crisis-epidemic-addiction-nalaxone-heroine-column/1347574002/ …

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      2. Reese Tyrell‏ @ReeseSTyrell Sep 19
        Replying to @SecAzar

        Each life saved from disability due to intractable pain is also a victory. Prescription bottle imagery here is ableist and discriminatory, given that the vast majority of addiction results from illicit and counterfeit drugs, not legitimate prescriptions for incurable disease.

        3 replies 3 retweets 15 likes
      3. SplendidStarling‏ @SplendidStarli1 Sep 19
        Replying to @ReeseSTyrell @SecAzar

        I’ve recently left a full time job due to an incurable pain causing illness that has been refused pain management. Unable to work, I will now be forced to seek disability. How is this progress for me?

        4 replies 6 retweets 13 likes
      4. Sue Schmoker‏ @SueSchmoker Sep 19
        Replying to @SplendidStarli1 @cam_lavalle and

        Be sure you tell your Disability Rep as well as your Examiner ~ JUST MAYBE they will help 🙏🏼 Never hurts to ask – especially if your Rep knows you still WANT to work.

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. SoccerMomRN‏ @RunningNEPA Sep 20
        Replying to @SueSchmoker @SplendidStarli1 and

        If you tell the disability rep you want to work you’ll be denied disability benefits and they will find you a suitable job with your limitations. Then, when you try said job and cannot do it, you’ll be screwed. Not trying to sound harsh, but that’s the reality of disability.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      6. SplendidStarling‏ @SplendidStarli1 Sep 20
        Replying to @RunningNEPA @SueSchmoker and

        When my pain was managed I was limited, but I felt like I had options in life. Now that the pain is bad again, it feels like I have none. My research has shown you are correct. Thank you. My world gets smaller everyday, I just wish it didn’t have to.

        1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
      7. SoccerMomRN‏ @RunningNEPA Sep 20
        Replying to @SplendidStarli1 @SueSchmoker and

        I’m in the same boat, so I sympathize. Daily pain is a terrible place to live.

        0 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
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      2. Dee Giles‏ @DEEGILES0410 Sep 19
        Replying to @SecAzar @POTUS

        Too bad the addicts who abuse drugs will be alive and the chronic pain patients who safely and legally take their prescriptions will be dead due to suicide or on disability due to pain because addicts are more important than they are!

        1 reply 3 retweets 9 likes
      3. Couch‏ @Couchmx Sep 20
        Replying to @DEEGILES0410 @SecAzar @POTUS

        @realDonaldTrump @CDCgov @DEAHQ @US_FDA Why are you letting our ((Veterans Die by Suicide )) Refusing their Pain Meds I hold Congress Responsible🗣🇺🇸 @realDonaldTrump @GOP @SenateDems @WhiteHouse #chronicpain

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      2. R. Lamartiniere, MD‏ @rlamartini Sep 19
        Replying to @SecAzar @POTUS

        How do you save a life from addiction? Is it reasonable to deprive the 95% of patients that will never become addicted form appropriate pain meds to prevent the less than 5% which will likely find them in other ways?

        1 reply 2 retweets 14 likes
      3. Congress Is Useless‏ @FelineAdvoCat Sep 21
        Replying to @rlamartini @SecAzar @POTUS

        You're exactly right sir, that's what knee-jerking Government does, it hurts the majority because of the minority. Follow the money.

        0 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
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      1. Cammie LaValle‏ @cam_lavalle Sep 19
        Replying to @SecAzar @POTUS

        Failure to treat over 100 million Americans with pain is not an option either. Pain patients forced tapered/denied vital medically necessary MEDICATION 4 pain r taking their lives #SuicideDueToPain & no longer have future. More will head to their gun cabinet as the stigma rages!

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      1. SanDiegoSunshine‏ @diego_sunshine Sep 19
        Replying to @SecAzar @POTUS

        How can you call lives saved from addiction on the backs of patients in pain a victory?

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      1. Congress Is Useless‏ @FelineAdvoCat Sep 19
        Replying to @SecAzar @POTUS

        When you take the rights away from non-addicts you will cause them to find alternatives, which will lead to deaths.

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      2. Wade Harman‏ @wadeharman Sep 19
        Replying to @SecAzar @SGottliebFDA @POTUS

        Well then you should research #Kratom. Millions of Americans are drinking this tea to help withdrawal symptoms. My own personal story, 16 yrs clean thx to Kratom #iamkratom #keepkratomlegal #kratomsaveslives #savekratom

        1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
      3. Joey‏ @SdotJoe Sep 20
        Replying to @wadeharman @SecAzar and

        People abuse kratom too

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4.  ♻ t.s. esque  ☮‏ @tsesque Sep 20
        Replying to @SdotJoe @wadeharman and

        prove it

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5.  ♻ t.s. esque  ☮‏ @tsesque Sep 20
        Replying to @tsesque @SdotJoe and

        You get sick from abusing kratom. Why do you feel the need to police what people do with their own bodies?

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Robin‏ @RTShark Sep 19
        Replying to @SecAzar @POTUS

        Wow! That was trash ass editorial. the fact that you think a "drug free future" is even remotely possible shows me you do not understand very little about drugs or drug use.

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      2. Dave's not here‏ @davetimesone Sep 20
        Replying to @SecAzar @POTUS

        I have several relatives who have struggled with opioids. Some of them have used fewer opioids by supplementing with marijuana but then their doctors tell them they can't do it - even though they started taking fewer pills! Doctors say reason is b/c of pressure from DEA. Why??!

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      3. Congress Is Useless‏ @FelineAdvoCat Sep 21
        Replying to @davetimesone @SecAzar @POTUS

        The DEA is another corrupt alphabet agency, people think DEA are stopping illegal drugs, they aren't, they are stopping ppl from legal drugs

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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