This post was originally placed on a page involving a community in another state. It may not be posted there, but I’m sharing it because this is becoming far too common everywhere
Coming of the American Administrative Civil War: “It is a curious thing to live in an age where hope has been replaced by preparedness…The hedge-fund oracle Ray Dalio, peering into his balance sheets like the Delphic priestess of finance, has declared there is now a “fifty percent chance” of civil war. We are to expect not muskets this time, but lawsuits, drones, 5th-Generation Algorithmic Warfare, and perhaps a brief commercial break brought to you by Lockheed Martin... Dr.Neil K. Anand, MD, 8days before reporting to the U.S. Federal Prison for 14 years, a pain care physician of Indian origin..
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Chronic Pain, Opioids, and Bureaucratic Dehumanization
This text strongly critiques the dehumanization of pain medication care caused by excessive regulation from government agencies like the DEA and CDC. The main point is that bureaucratic policies, driven by fears of addiction, have created systemic barriers that criminalize doctors and prevent chronic pain patients, such as the author Marisa Hansen, from accessing essential, stabilizing opioid medications. Ms. Hansen’s writings emphasize the serious consequences of this overreach, including the harassment and wrongful prosecution of physicians, the loss of trust in the medical field, and the documented rise in patient pain. Additionally, this article expands its scope to suggest that these restrictive health policies are part of a broader issue of “bureaucratic bloat,” in which self-serving administrative classes prioritize control and growth over their organization’s primary purpose, leading to inefficiency and injustice within vital institutions. Suicides due to untreated chronic pain.
BY
Marisa Hansen
I am not a regular participant on this page. I got here because our government is overregulating every legal opioid so much that chronic pain patients can no longer access the legal meds that they were stable on for years.
I can’t comment on addiction much because I can’t share that perspective, as I don’t suffer from the disease of addiction. I CAN, however, tell you that the facts reveal very low rates of addiction in chronic pain patients needing opioids.
For decades, groups like PROP, the DEA, and others have been attempting to force a prohibition of legal NARCOTIC ANALGESICS (opioids)
Historically, not just ATM. Although the CDC guidelines are basically junk science and were devastating to doctors and patients alike, the “guidelines” have caused what the CDC calls “unintended harms” to patients.
For decades, groups like PROP, the DEA, and others have been attempting to force a prohibition of legal opioids. Despite the efforts of advocacy groups trying to keep access to legal narcotic analgesic medications (opioids) and trying to protect pain management providers, the CDC stepped in where they shouldn’t have.
According to the Eugenic Archives, ” The term ‘dehumanization’ was coined in the early 19th century and has acquired a wide range of meanings since then. These include:
“..treating certain people in degrading ways (for instance, merely as means to an end), referring to them as non-human animals or as inanimate objects, denying that they possess distinctively human characteristics, treating them in degrading ways that cause them to experience themselves as less than human, denying that they have mental states, conceiving of other people as less human than oneself, conceiving of them as inanimate objects, and conceiving of them as subhuman animals..”
We knew this was bad news. But the states have run rampant and gone too far with their laws and restrictions.
Providers where I live are afraid to prescribe any controlled medications, making life hell for those who need them. We were targeted just like our docs were. We did not go to jail, as so many brave doctors have, but we live in prisons caused by pain.
Pain is known to harm the body’s immune, cardio, and endocrine systems, as well as others. It needs to be treated, or an acute condition can become chronic!
Yet these facts and other known facts were tossed out the window in favor of restrictive and inhumane laws. Doctors could have stopped this — just a few in each state — had they pushed back in 2016. After that, the shit started rolling downhill rapidly.
My point is that yes, I come from another era when healthcare worked. As a young child, I admired the young people and older people on our black and white TV, protesting against racism, pushing for women’s rights, etc It was something that stayed in my mind…
This is how a democracy works!
But somewhere along the way, most of our doctors became too frightened or too busy to pay attention to the problems.
I, along with many other older pain patients, could easily predict the horrors that are now happening, and our voices don’t carry the social weight that medical professionals’ voices do. We have not yet “gone viral” with the facts, though we have them.
Bearing in mind that every single one of us is only one accident or illness away from needing legal opioids, we have to inform somehow and engage the general public and share the knowledge that OUR government has LIED and participated in fraud.
Medicare employees are now telling people that palliative care is “the same thing as hospice.” Meaning this avenue of treating pain while preserving independence is no longer open!
There really are too many aspects of the harms caused by false government narratives to address in this post. Maybe I should do one short post at a time, pointing out the lies and the truth. I don’t know, I’m just one old lady who needs a serious neck surgery and in so much pain I don’t feel real.
I was recently basically abandoned, like so many people in pain, by a Texas-based interventional pain clinic that was forcing its doctors in my state to sign contracts requiring that my kind, intelligent doctor cut opioids in every patient.
My stenosis is severe in my neck, and I doubt I’ll make it to a complicated surgery. I reached a point where I simply told my doc it’s worsening, and I did not think I’d be ok if he made another cut. He still felt bound by his contract. He referred me to a practice that I had thought he felt would leave my one remaining opioid pain med at 4/day.
I had to drive a long way for pain mgmt because around here, nobody will really address the NEED for full agonist opioids. I struggled with the drive as it got worse, difficult because of advancing pain in my dominant right arm and hand .. my shifting hand.
I drive an older performance car and have always enjoyed driving it until now. Stenosis takes away your ability to be who you are. I made the trip to the new place, where I sat in front of a tired-looking and disorganized NP who looked at no history or MRI results … Only my PMP. And the “canting” began.
Meanwhile, I was supposedly discharged by my kind, intelligent doc. I’ve been abandoned by everyone in the worst pain I’ve ever had, and left without even any buprenorphine (and this is because of “that one pharmacist” who happens to be an asshole and always shows up in any pharmacy).
And this is just a short synopsis of the problems I’ve had accessing decent care for about a year and a half.. Part of this is likely because I’m outspoken about the government ruining medical care here, and of course, I regret telling my kind doc (force-tapering me, but nicer than locals) that I couldn’t take any more cuts.
Now I’ve got nothing. Mind you, I tried other things, but after 20+ years of high-dose opioid pain control, nothing much helps. I just think it’s time to go viral with the fraud perpetrated by our government against anybody needing legal opioids for pain.
Whatever happened to the practice of individualized healthcare?
Believe me, there will be hell to pay if this doesn’t change. As far as kratom or 7-oh are concerned, I think our government needs to go away and stop with the crazy overregulation of substances. Pain patients are desperate because of you morons.
What do you expect?
Perhaps you’d like all of us to unalive ourselves like the thousands that already have?
This is pathetic!!
Do you really think that the unnecessary deaths of a couple of generations that lived in a saner country is a good thing?
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“..the rule depends on the people…the rule of law is an abstract concept and it’s easy to lose it. If the horse gets out of the barn or the genie gets out of the bottle, pick your metaphors… it’s going to be very, very difficult to recreate the norms we hold dear…” Professor of Law James Sample, Hostra University
THE RULE OF LAW IS AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT
!!SO WHAT!!
