Is PAM BONDI/DOJ/DEA AGENDA diametrical opposed to Sec Kennedy’s MAHA (Make American Healthy Again) agenda? Some 25%-30% of our population has had their QOL continuing deterioration over the last decade. How can that population have any chance of getting healthy again and optimized their QOL, if the intensity of their chronic pain has been increasing because of DOJ/DEA has been constantly intimidating practitioners to prescribe fewer and fewer pain meds along with making the pharmas production quotas >50% less over the last decade.
Sec Kennedy is in charge of MAHA (Make America Healthy Again). My money is on that this woman who posted the text below, he doesn’t have a clue about this woman or probably millions of chronic pain pts that are suffering/dying out of sight – out of mind. She is also one of millions that will never be able to attempt to GET HEALTHY AGAIN. All wars have their COLLATERAL DAMAGE, How many tens of millions of chronic pain pts are/have been collateral damage of the war on drugs that has turned into pretty much a COVERT GENOCIDE?
This is suppose to be RFK,Jr’s secretary’s email: OSA11y@hhs.gov
I want to thank you for everything you and Dr Ibsen do for the pain community. You are an amazing human being. A couple of weeks ago I couldn’t take it anymore. I felt like the pain was getting worse and I got sicker. I became homeless and that was the last straw for me. I decided to end my life. I don and cannot do this anymore and if it wasn’t for the stupid cleaning lady at the hotel I would have succeeded I spend time in the ICU and then in a horrible mental ward, then back on the street. My dignity was taken from me. I now have a roommate and thought I would get back on track. But my health won’t hear of it. I have on top of AA cellulitis in both of my lower extremities, kidney stones and a couple of days ago a Merda diagnosis. The spores are in my body. I was send home with four antibiotics that are killing my body as well as Ibuprofen and Tylenol for the stones. I can’t walk far anymore and have given up I wrote a letter for you and Mark should something happen to me. Please, get it to a newspaper. I know I am asking much but I don’t have anyone who would do that for me. Please continue to support those patients and Mark, keep fighting. I love you both, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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I have an urgent suggestion for the individual whose description of suffering is at the end of this post. Stop taking the Tylenol. There’s so much data showing acetaminophen really doesn’t reduce pain. It doesn’t interact with the u receptors in the brain (which is how opioids stop pain). It doesn’t reduce inflammation, like the NSAIDS. NSAIDS don’t interact with mu receptors, either, but they do help by reducing inflammation. When inflammation is reduced, the pain that inflammation causes is also reduced.
Recently published data shows that, especially with older people, acetaminophen has many negative effects including stomach ulcers, lower GI bleeding, chronic kidney disease, high blood pressure, and on the cardiovascular and the brain. (The researchers who discovered these effects said they’d previously gone undetected because all previous testing of acetaminophen was focused on short term pain such as headaches, with younger, healthier subjects).
At best acetaminophen is a useless waste of money. At worst, it could be adding to health problems and suffering.