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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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    6. 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.

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      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.

      5:50 AM - 17 Feb 2019
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        1. RN advocating‏ @RNadvocating 17 Feb 2019
          Replying to @Surgeon_General

          A comprehensive response to the opioid crisis would be to stop blaming pain meds and put the focus on the real problem. Illicit fentanyl being ordered on the internet and sent through the US mail

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        1. Roger That‏ @RogerTh71142375 17 Feb 2019
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          #American citizens have been duped. The whole #world CANNOT be having an opioid crisis simultaneously. Yet, that is what has occurred. #WarOnDrugs pledge is going to be a genocide & TORTURE. #globalhealth #SurgicalStrike #mafiamedicine #mediawatchhttp://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/statement-of-the-global-commission-on-drug-policy-on-the-global-call-to-action-on-the-world-drug-problem …

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        1. RN advocating‏ @RNadvocating 17 Feb 2019
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          https://www.pscp.tv/w/bzoiojF4ZUtXeXlaQk56RVB8MVBsSlFyanJvZEJ4RZzvkthXuu1U1WG5BVI4gwo7Wd2XSXeLgH8TaKgHWwLh …

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        1. Holly Stuart‏ @holly_sruart 18 Feb 2019
          Replying to @Surgeon_General

          Talk to the ones that go through it. It's horrifying and very painful. Why ask a criminal, if they committed the crime!! Dr. Kline N.C& Dr. Laird ask him what case he just won. Or all of us.

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        2. Andrew Kessler‏ @SlingshotDC 17 Feb 2019
          Replying to @Surgeon_General

          when @realDonaldTrump declared the opioid epidemic a "National Emergency," he never attempted to move funds from different accounts. He allocated no dollar amount. Never once even attempted to attach a dollar amount to the problem. #NationalEmergency

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        3. RN advocating‏ @RNadvocating 17 Feb 2019
          Replying to @SlingshotDC @Surgeon_General @realDonaldTrump

          There's been over a billion dollars put in since 2016

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        1. lee h. alderman‏ @reversechapter 17 Feb 2019
          Replying to @Surgeon_General

          "Overused" = bigotry and nonsense. There's no such thing as *average* overuse. You need to correct the fundamental errors I've listed here. You're helping to fuel a genocide using data at least some us knew was wrong a decade ago. We predicted what would happen - successfully.

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        1. RN advocating‏ @RNadvocating 19 Feb 2019
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        1. RN advocating‏ @RNadvocating 20 Feb 2019
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          https://www.pscp.tv/w/bz3psTF4ZUtXeXlaQk56RVB8MVprSnprclhucnl4dpRHr1xd5DLyUeYAEkIqjYMVaFHxOGS2L7pwX8NorhsF …

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        1. debbie bertolino‏ @debbiejayjay15 25 Feb 2019
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          If so many patients have left over meds after surgery why would you think it's cause for addiction? Makes no sence.

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