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333 points glasscannon | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 12:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

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ekianjo ◴[04 Jul 25 13:33 UTC] No.44464403[source]▶

> Before moving forward - I’m not a doctor. Just a bit of a nerd with a blog. Please do not sue me or use these posts as a replacement for medical care.

unnecessary disclaimer here. when it comes to chronic pain treatment doctors are mostly useless or even harmful, proposing surgeries or drugs that will do more bad than anything else because they have no interest in learning how to customize their approach and will parrot and prescribe what they heard from medical representatives. Remember, the opoids crisis was enabled by doctors in the first place.

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1. xyst ◴[04 Jul 25 17:10 UTC] No.44466202[source]▶

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It was enabled by doctors but they were deceived by Purdue Pharma and Sackler family. They also deceived the (understaffed) FDA, paid off researchers to get their exact wording approved. Purdue used their wealth and influence to launch a nationwide campaign and lobbyist group advocating that mistreatment/mismanagement of patient pain will lead to litigation.

Those stupid pain face charts you see at hospitals, physician offices. Purdue marketing, nothing else.

Everybody is shitty here. This is what happens when a market has loose regulations.

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