Episode 2. On this episode of Real Pain, Real Talk, our Host,
Kat Hatz, is joined by two fellow APDF patients and advocates, Bob Sheerin
& Andrew Hohenthaner, to talk about how pain impacts everything, from
functionality to basic quality of life. We discuss our journeys as patients and
advocates, both before and after the Centers for Disease Control &
Prevention (CDC) issued draconian Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids in 2016,
which were revised in 2022 but with no substantive improvements. We also talk
about the heartbreak involved when we advocate for a community we belong to,
that consists of extremely vulnerable, disabled, and marginalized individuals.
We try to raise awareness about how hard it is to know we will continue to lose
members of our community until substantive changes are made to the harmful and
widely adopted current policies pertaining to pain medicine. In addition, we
discuss how those policies have hurt us and countless other patients. We hope
this episode is heard by both the pain community and healthy people, as we try
to give a voice to people who face intractable chronic pain. Please tune in and
help us debunk a flawed media narrative that has been pushed by government
agencies, legislators, insurers, and others, and which has resulted in millions
of preventable harms and deaths that pain patients have sustained. Follow our
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