U.S. Surgeon GeneralVerified account

Data shows vast majority of deaths are caused by illicit use. Scapegoating chronic pain ptns won't stop the "epidemic".

Dr Safina forced tapered hundreds if not thousands of vulnerable medicaid patients in Oregon.

@SpooniesCouch Does she trust them to know their own bodies & believe them when they say a medication is helping?

@SpooniesCouch The inclination to disbelieve #chronicpain patients abt our own bodies causes physical & psychological harm

@SpooniesCouch I doubt it, as I've heard from so many left with no pain control whose function deteriorates rapidly.

@SpooniesCouch More people die from medical error than #opioid overdose and car accidents combined.

....and they need to understand that when u stop them cold turkey u are helping to create the addiction problem

Sadly, there are huge number of people whose diseases don't respond to alt. treatment. Refusal to treat symptoms is immoral