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Subject Matter Expert on public policy regulating opioid pain relievers and clinicians who employ them on behalf of their patients.

Fort Mill SC
Joined March 2014
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@JonelleElgaway Thanks for the boost, Jonelle...
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Posted as a public service: CSI:OPIOIDs (Clinical Context of Suicide Following Opioid Transitions) is a scientific research study to closely examine suicides that happen after prescription opioid dose reductions in patients with long-term pain. Please RT!
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STUDIES COMBATING THE “FALSE NARRATIVES” ON HARMS OF PRESCRIPTION OPIOID PAIN MEDICATIONS. @iPainOfficial @US_Pain @StefanKertesz @nabarund @ChadDKollas @amanpour @LynnRWebsterMD via @LinkedIn
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@plwin49 The Australia study confirms many others. See also my work at and
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@ibdgirl76 Bev, we have a platform, if we can only get someone to TELL their stories. See Pass the word, please.
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Notes on verifying the qualifications of people whom you ask for advice on the Net: A Few Words of Advice from a Village Elder via @LinkedIn
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@US_Pain @ChadDKollas @iPainOfficial Please RT: Comprehensive Evaluation of the Implementation and Uptake of the CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain” [30Day-25-24IV]. Deadline for comments January 20, 2025 via @LinkedIn
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@StefanKertesz Stefan, please send me the chart at lawhern@hotmail.com ... Thanks.
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@Twistedkitkat Social murder is a good description for US CDC efforts to outlaw opioid pain relievers from the practice of pain medicine.
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@NAMSDL1 @Arnold_Ventures @ONDCP If the act was truly about patient protection then it should have sanctioned any treatment center that force-tapers patients off pain meds, or places arbitrary limits on MMEDD.
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@ChadDKollas @StefanKertesz @nabarund @LynnRWebsterMD @NewsHour @CDCgov @speakingabtpain @US_Pain @BarbyIngle @maddow @USNewsHealth Please RT: 2024 Year End Report and Invitation to Join - National Campaign to Protect People in Pain via @LinkedIn
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Please RT: @LynnRWebsterMD @ChadDKollas @ibdgirl76 @CMerandi @DoctorsofC @NewsHour @StefanKertesz @maddow A Court Rejected the Disease Theory of Opioid Addiction. Will We Listen?
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@US_Pain @NewsHour @NBCNews @HuffPost @amanpour @StefanKertesz @JonelleElgaway @LynnRWebsterMD @CNNPolitics Please RT: New Out Today on KevinMD - America’s most widely read and cited healthcare newsletter, downloaded two million times per month.
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@ChadDKollas @StefanKertesz @US_Pain @LynnRWebsterMD @JonelleElgaway @BarbyIngle Please RT: Immediate Inter Agency Review is Mandatory Prior to Recall and Repudiation of CDC and Veterans Administration Opioid Prescribing Guidelines [LONG] via @LinkedIn
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Please RT: Incidence of Substance Use Disorder in Clinically Managed Chronic Pain Patients is Less Than One in a Thousand @pbsnewshour @iPainOfficial @US_Pain @CBSNews @HuffPost @maddow @ChadDKollas @StefanKertesz @statnews @CDCDirector via @LinkedIn
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@kaake_rn @ACSHorg @LinkedIn It's nonsense. I'm working on another paper that will be titled "US Healthcare Agencies and the Sound of Silence".
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