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If you are following me you are likely to see me boosting the signal of newer articles and studies illustrating the irrevocable harms done to people with intractable (incurable) pain conditions due to overzealous and misguided attempts to solve the 'opioid crisis' which has only made THAT problem much, much worse while depriving people with legitimate pain issues - acute, chronic, cancer, or palliative - from appropriate and adequate pain relief.

And even MORE worse for BIPOC or LGBTQ folks.

Occasionally you'll see a request from me to submit a comment on a federal docket or to contact legislators about something we're trying to do - or more often, to STOP something bad from happening.

For now I'll leave you with: despite drug shortages being reported across the USA of the most commonly-prescribed prescription pain/anesthesia medications, the DEA is requesting a DECREASE in the production quota of those very medications for the seventh straight year.

https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2022/11/11/dea-plans-further-cuts-in-rx-opioid-supply-nbsp

Oh did you NOT know that the Drug Enforcement Agency decides precisely how much prescription pain/anesthesia medication is produced by all of pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United States every year - not the Food and Drug Administration? Or the Department of Health and Human Services?

It's true. The DEA is also proposing to slash ADHD meds this year. And the DEA . .. is NOT a friend to people with pain nor their healthcare providers. Or to people with ADHD.

https://www.ormanagement.net/Web-Only/Article/06-22/Drug-Shortages-Continue-%E2%80%A6-And-Proliferate/67140