U.S. Surgeon GeneralVerified account

Pls don't forget about the lives being destroyed bc of untreated pain. Many #ChronicPain patients have been forcibly reduced or cut off of opioids that once allowed #QualityOfLife. Overreaching policy is now affecting cancer patients & some in hospice. Pain is no longer treated!

Your handling of the #opioidcrisis = a death trap for #ChronicPain patients. "Every week, one of us receives notice of suicides and overdoses by patients across the country who are distraught in the wake of having their dosages reduced." (And discontinued) http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2017/08/cutting_down_on_opioids_has_made_life_miserable_for_chronic_pain_patients.html …

"For pain patients, these suicides and the stories of those whose pain has worsened as their opioids were take away suggest that they, too, are being harmed. Who is being helped here? The operation cannot be a success if the patients die." https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/8x5m7g/opioid-crackdown-chronic-pain-patients-suicide …

Why not start by not lying to the public?! The US gov't endorses treating addicts with opioids while people with terminal illness and chronic pain patients are not able to get life-restoring tx! WE are NOT the problem!

May I put a broom up your poop shoot and deny you pain meds for a month. Live the life of one suffering horrific from chronic pain due to non standard care and surgery by resident doctors who ruined my life. I lost my job of 35 years and so much more. Walk the walk !

Maybe put in a good word about vaccines too?! And contraception And climate change And clean water

"...in recent months there have been a growing number of anecdotal reports of pain patients killing themselves because they can no longer get pain medication or find doctors willing to treat them." http://www.painnewsnetwork.org  #ChronicPain patients deserve life too!