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Dr. Kolodny’s New Math: Turning Chronic Pain Patients into OUD Statistics https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/12/16/dr-kolodnys-new-math-turning-chronic-pain-patients-oud-statistics-49179 Just when you thought the opioid crisis may have peaked, Dr. Andrew Kolodny, arguably the world’s foremost anti-opioid zealot, has found a shiny new way to inflate the numbers. In the HHS’s redefining of opioid use disorder (OUD) to include patients responsibly taking […]

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What could go wrong with taking Andrew Kolodny’s advice on the fabricated opioid crisis?  Just look at the J&J trial in OK, with J&J being charged with being a public nuisance, because they were the raw opioid powder wholesaler to the rest of the pharma industry that made FDA-approved opioid medications. Reported, Kolondy was hired […]

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CASE 22-6000: U.S. SUPREME COURT FAILURE TO GRANT CERT PETITION “CLEMENT vs. DEA,” INADVERTENTLY SANCTIONS DEA’s MIS-BEHAVIORS, ABUSES AND PAIN PATIENT’S DEATHS http://https://youarewithinthenorms.com/2023/01/15/case-22-6000-u-s-supreme-court-failure-to-grant-cert-petition-clement-vs-dea-inadvertently-sanctions-deas-mis-behaviors-abuses-and-pain-patients-deaths/ PROVIDERS BY DOJ-DEA Leo Beletsky of Northeastern calls the government crackdown on prescribers getting indicted low-hanging fruit. “The DEA measures success based on the number of arrests and prosecutions. Doctors are minor […]

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Andrew Kolodny 328 subscribers Despite low-quality evidence supporting practice change, use of opioids for chronic pain increased dramatically over the past two decades. Concurrently, there has been a sharp increase in opioid analgesic overdose deaths, addiction, misuse and diversion. Opioids may provide modest, variable short-term pain relief for some patients with chronic pain. Long-term benefits […]

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Trump And The GE Parses Kolodny’s Opioid Hoax December 2nd At 7PM https://newyorkshockexchange.com/2021/11/26/trump-and-the-ge-parses-kolodnys-opioid-hoax-december-2nd-at-7pm/ The opioid epidemic has dominated the 24-hour news cycle for the past four years. Drug overdose deaths have surpassed car accidents pursuant to accidental deaths. Drug overdose deaths were exacerbated by a spike in opioid-relate drug overdoses. Fentanyl has been so prevalent […]

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I have been a “student of the bureaucracies” for some 40 + yrs …. and this whole CDC opiate dosing guidelines issue is from the same “play book” that I have seen bureaucrats use over and over again for all those years, but this time… the CDC did the whole process behind closed doors, trying […]

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When Joe Biden is sworn in as our 46th President, he had stated over and over again that he believes in doing what SCIENCE dictates should be done in regards to health issues. This article is FIVE YEARS OLD, but many outside of the CDC said that their opiate dosing guidelines “flies in the face […]

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Kolodny spoke with the Justice over Zoom about the problems with the recent campus protest. https://www.thejustice.org/article/2020/10/dr-andrew-kolodny-responds-to-protest-calling-for-the-university-to-fire-him-brandeis Content warning: This article discusses addiction, chronic pain and suicide. Standing near the Brandeis University sign by the entrance to campus, a small group of protestors held signs reading “We call on Brandeis to Fire Andrew Kolodny.” The Oct. […]

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Flattery credits Kolodny with helping survivors deal with the devastating effects of their loss. “He has been an absolute champion for American families in continuing to fight against very powerful interests https://www.brandeis.edu/magazine/2018/spring/featured-stories/opioid.html In 2003, as a new employee in New York City’s health department, having just completed a psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai, Andrew Kolodny […]

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How Did We Come to Abandon America’s Pain Patients? https://filtermag.org/2019/07/15/abandon-americas-pain-patients/amp/ Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with benzodiazepines—continue to go up. But opioid prescribing continues to go down. Pain patients are untreated and suffering. Pharmaceutical companies are being sued and settling. Law enforcement is cracking down on providers. […]

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