One in three dying patients end their lives in severe pain
Richard Lawhern
Subject Matter Expert in public policy for regulation of opioid pain relievers and physicians who prescribe them. 28 years experience and thousands of contacts in social media support groups for people in pain.
In early September 2024, Kate Pickles of the Daily Mail published the following profoundly troubling article:
Crisis as one in three dying patients end their lives in severe pain, damning report reveals
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This report is indeed damning. And it is time to remove the US and UK public health officials who made the mess that it reports. Thus the following letter has been posted to the Offices of the Executive Secretary at CDC, the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, and senior officials at the US Food and Drug Administration and National Institute on Drug Abuse. Copies have been sent to hundreds of chronic pain patients and their caregivers, practicing clinicians, nurses, and other medical professionals.
My Congressman will also see this note, and I hope yours will also.
AS MAILED: See below
For US government officials in public health:? required reading
This is indeed a public health crisis — one of your creation. It is now known beyond any rational or reasonable contradiction that the odds of iatrogenic addiction are on the order of one in one thousand or less.? When such addiction is diagnosed, the risk factors that contribute most centrally to this outcome are from the patient's mental health history, not from opioid prescribing.?
I commend to your additional reading, a short literature review that supports these realities:
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This correspondence is shared with a BCC distribution that includes over 70 practicing clinicians and hundreds of patients and caregivers across the US.? This letter and the Daily Mail article will be posted in social media groups that are read by over two million medical industry contributors.??
Deserted and desperate patients can testify against the people who are destroying their lives.? YOU OWE THEM!
A note specifically for Kate Pickles:? Come talk with me about the article linked above.? I speak and write widely in your field, having authored or coauthored over 250 papers, articles, and interviews in a mix of peer reviewed, editor reviewed, and mass media during the past 27 hears.? My work is cited over 250 times on Google Scholar.
WE ARE A NATION IN PAIN AND WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!
Richard A Lawhern Ph.D.
Speakers Panel of the Campaign to Protect People In Pain
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Twitter:? @Lawhern1
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1 个月I'm that one in three right about now. No! Don't worry that I WILL, I won't (yet), but this is evening is torture. (I have an adult special needs daughter that I would NEVER leave, EVER) But something's got to give for us!
Pain Psychologist and Attorney
1 个月Thanks for posting this