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  1. CW: Personal, NEISVoid

    Those who have been following me know that I talk (sometimes) about my chronic pain, intractable and severe, and the trauma that I have developed from dealing with the medical system and doctors.

    It is important to understand that, while my level of pain is usual, this kind of treatment by pain patients is so common that it is developing into a crisis.

    In this article, the guy talks about people who have been given the diagnosis so that they can be moved to buprenorphine, which is what was done with me. My new treatment regimine (which, contrary to what they said was not going to be a quick fix but in 2-3 months might provide the benefit I got from the infusions) is my only potential escape from the treatment purgatory in which they have placed me.

    Even with this, though, doctors were clear that even mentioning "opioids" almost made them kick me out.

    kevinmd.com/2024/05/the-hidden

    #ChronicPain #Pain #Opioid #Butrans #Buprenorphine #NEISVoid #PTSD #Medicine #Medical #USPol

  2. We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be #free.
    But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted.
    💥Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, 💥 leading to
    🔸pharmaceutical companies "freely overcharging" for medication,
    🔸 a Big Tech "free from oversight",
    🔸politicians "free to incite rebellion",
    🔸corporations "free to pollute", and more.
    How did we get here?
    Whose freedom are we—and should we—be thinking about?
    In ♦️The Road to Freedom♦️, Nobel prize winner #Joseph E. #Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic #system and the political #ideology that created it,
    laying bare their twinned #failure.
    👉“Free” and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the #financial crisis, the #opioid crisis, and the crisis of #inequality.
    While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth,
    wages for most people have stagnated.
    Free and #unfettered #markets have #exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike.
    Such failures have fed #populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another.
    As they grow in strength, 🔥these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.🔥
    wwnorton.com/books/97813240743

  3. Researchers use stem cells to generate human neurons resembling those in the brain that control breathing during opioid reactions, for eventual chip devices to test overdose therapies.

    sciencebusiness.technewslit.co

    #News #Press #Science #Business #Opioid #Overdose #Preclinical #Toxicity #Neurons #Breathing #Naloxone #Fentanyl #Codeine #Brain #Methadone #StemCells #Biotechnology #Engineering #Chemistry