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    1. U.S. Surgeon General‏Verified account @Surgeon_General 17 Feb 2019

      1/7 Sunday Spotlight: Important read before surgery-> No one goes into an operation hoping to be on opioids a year later. But too often, opioids are excessively prescribed. Up to 75% of patients, if not more, after surgery have leftover painkillers.https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/02/12/doctors-limit-prescription-opioids-surgery-pain-reduce-addiction-patients-column/2766756002/ …

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    2. U.S. Surgeon General‏Verified account @Surgeon_General 17 Feb 2019

      2/7 With as many as 10 percent of patients still using opioids a year after surgery, chronic opioid use has become one of the most common and serious long-term risks of undergoing an operation. @ASALifeline @AmerMedicalAssn @AmCollSurgeons

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    3. U.S. Surgeon General‏Verified account @Surgeon_General 17 Feb 2019

      3/7 By early 2000s clinical teaching suggested the risks of addiction or misuse from opioids had been overblown. The best case for enthusiastic use of opioids was often surgery. Clinicians were eager to take away the “organic” pain they had just created in the operating room.

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    4. U.S. Surgeon General‏Verified account @Surgeon_General 17 Feb 2019

      4/7 It would be one thing if such patients fared well, and if the scientific evidence supported such use. But in fact, there is scant evidence for the safety or effectiveness of opioid use for chronic post-operative pain.

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    5. U.S. Surgeon General‏Verified account @Surgeon_General 17 Feb 2019

      5/7 This reservoir of opioids creates challenges, including difficulties around safe storage, disposal and potential diversion to family and friends. Note-> To locate a drug take back site near you, go to https://takebackday.dea.gov/#collection-locator …

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      U.S. Surgeon General‏Verified account @Surgeon_General 17 Feb 2019

      6/7 The good news is that reducing surgical opioid use need not compromise patients’ quality of care. Patients and surgeons have many tools to choose from, and the time for such discussions is before an operation.

      5:49 AM - 17 Feb 2019
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        1. U.S. Surgeon General‏Verified account @Surgeon_General 17 Feb 2019

          7/7 A comprehensive response to the opioid epidemic must consider all of the settings in which these drugs are overused. For many patients, the most important setting is after (or before) they have an operation.

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        1. Boone‏ @DanBoon63784314 17 Feb 2019
          Replying to @Surgeon_General

          It already has & will only get worse. Ask families whose loved ones succumb to #SuicideDue2Pain from being denied or forced tapered from last resort #MEDICATION. CDC & FDA acknowledge suicides have increased in #pain community, yet do nothing. Will you acknowledge & act on this?

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        2. MEMadMD 🇺🇸‏ @tbcle1 17 Feb 2019
          Replying to @Surgeon_General

          Therefore, Pain which is a Vital Sign (0/10 Pain 😀) according to JCAHO is no longer a Vital Sign to keep tract?

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        3. RN advocating‏ @RNadvocating 18 Feb 2019
          Replying to @tbcle1 @Surgeon_General

          Yes they took care of that first. Taking the question of pain off of hospital surveys so they didn't have hear about the dissatisfaction and suffering

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        1. RN advocating‏ @RNadvocating 17 Feb 2019
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          Taking post op pain meds away while the over dose deaths are coming from illicit street opiates such as bootleg fentanyl and heroin

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        1. NC Burr & Tillis: Here, right matters‏ @DaniScotchIrish 18 Feb 2019
          Replying to @Surgeon_General

          Why don’t you do your job and start making sure things like vaginal mesh, blood clot filters, spinal pain & hip implants don’t CAUSE more disabilities? That’s one reason many are in pain! And now you say OOPS SORRY you’re in pain but ADDICTS?

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        1. CGallMD‏ @GallaherCaren 17 Feb 2019
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          Sure would be nice if y'all could get rid of necessary medication shortages contrived by #PBMs and #GPOs!! Marcaine goes a long way to helping initial post op pain and the whole story changes when it is frequently unavailable #RepealSafeHarbor

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        1. RN advocating‏ @RNadvocating 18 Feb 2019
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        1. J. A. G.  🐴 🦋 🇺🇸 🐩‏ @puppyluvr312 17 Feb 2019
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          Liver and kidney destroying otc? Is that the choice?

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        1. RN advocating‏ @RNadvocating 17 Feb 2019
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