Dr. Janet Woodcock’s 2012 18 page letter to Dr. Andrew Kolodny in which are instructs him on what opioids actually are and tells him the FDA will not implement his insane citizen petition where he asked for chronic pain patients to be limited to 90 days TOTAL for opiate therapy for chronic, non-cancer pain – among other zealous requests..
Read it in its glory.
Time has sadly demonstrated that things are worse in the chronic pain department. University pain divisions spout the most unscientific “information”, flat out deny patients treatment and literally brush them off. Read “the illusion of evidence-based medicine” from the British Medical Journal. The academia intellectual dishonesty and media hysteria, skillfully manipulated by, mostly, the DEA, focusing completely erroneously on physicians and legitimate patients IS the proximate cause of the current opioid epidemic (consisting almost entirely of illegal, super-powerful, unquantified synthetics.) Welcome to the fascist states of American medicine. Doctors are compliant primarily because of their mouse-like timidity when they should be speaking up loudly and angrily.
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