BlessingBox @BlessingBox4u

Technical writer w/ specialization in social media, RN/CRRN, cultural creative, fact hacker, progressive, political junkie, pain advocate, hopeless dog lover! painadvocacycoalition.com USA Joined February 2013

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PAC @PACRiseUp

2 days ago

#ICYMI The bi-partisan circus of public health non-stop mud slinging & chaos continues… 🎪 youtube.com/live/O3MORmBWQ…

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Chad D. Kollas, MD (he/him/his) @ChadDKollas

3 days ago

Another patient was referred to our clinic by an oncologist who was "just not comfortable" prescribing opioid therapy for severe cancer pain, which is a skill required to pass the oncology board examination. I wonder if I go to MacDonald's and tell them that I'm "just not…

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You’re within the Norms @UrWithintheNorm

3 days ago

youarewithinthenorms.com/2025/09/03/hel… @TheRebelPatient @DrLizaMD @DRBMarino @BarbMcQuade @themaxburns @Ledhedd2 @muhamadalyrifai @RonChapmanAtty @TheRevAl @JohnFugelsang @IJ @jmkillingnyc @ChadDKollas @HelenBorel1

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Bev Schechtman🇮🇱 @ibdgirl76

4 days ago

We don't need pain Awareness month, which is already being used by pain grifters to push alternatives such as Pain Reprocessing Therapy. We need a Pain Patient Abandonment Month. Who do we talk to to make that happen? patreon.com/posts/septembe…

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PAC @PACRiseUp

3 days ago

August 27, 2025, Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA, in collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), hosted a hybrid public meeting on "Demand Forecasting for Controlled Substances.” (37:51) Public Comment youtu.be/L3dPSaTqKoc

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PAC @PACRiseUp

6 days ago

@UrWithintheNorm Docket (FDA-2025-P-0701) regulations.gov/document/FDA-2… Submit Public Comment Citizen Petition from The Doctor Patient Forum⤵️ regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-…

PAC @PACRiseUp

2 weeks ago

@UrWithintheNorm Docket (FDA-2025-P-0701) regulations.gov/document/FDA-2… Submit Public Comment Citizen Petition from The Doctor Patient Forum⤵️ regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-…

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You’re within the Norms @UrWithintheNorm

7 days ago

youarewithinthenorms.com/2025/08/30/the… @PACRiseUp

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BlessingBox @BlessingBox4u

a week ago

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Julie Killingworth Kasel ⭐️🌟 @jmkillingnyc

a week ago

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PAC @PACRiseUp

a week ago

Quote “Jim O’Neill, a senior HHS official w/deep ties to President Trump donor Peter Thiel, w/ take over CDC agency amid an exodus of its leadership & panic across the public health world.” The pain community has been warning about Palantir for years. thehill.com/policy/healthc…

HustleBitch @HustleBitch_

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More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS

a week ago

Medicare will start requiring prior approval for certain procedures — and will hire private AI companies to determine if patients are covered. The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.

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TexasLuluCat @TexasLulu

a week ago

@MorePerfectUS see if this link helps. nytimes.com/2025/08/28/hea…

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Adam Gentry @AdamGentry2021

a week ago

@DrTomFrieden 1/ Your CDC — & you personally — are responsible for an obscene number of deaths since your Opioid Prescribing Guidelines — & strategy of warrantless mass surveillance (PDMP databases & NARx Scores) — forced physicians to set aside their clinical judgment, compassion, & …

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Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes

a week ago

This is going to really blow your mind These are US Health Insurance Companies and the percentage of health plan revenue that comes from government programs, and their CEO’s salaries - Centene - 86% of health plan revenue from government programs - CVS/Aetna - 73% of health…

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Life Is Art Carrie🐦‍⬛🔥 @life_is_art___

a week ago

Listen to this DEA agent talk about how hard they cracked-down on docs that treated pain & how seeing “stacks & stacks of docs losing their life’s work”, caused them to stop prescribing opi@ids for these pts. Kolodny claims there wasn’t a crackdown. Maybe that’s because…

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Bev Schechtman🇮🇱 @ibdgirl76

a week ago

More misleading info out of U of M, this time from someone on the FDA advisory committee from the May 5 meeting. He gives the non pain adjusted number, which is not what was the accepted figure. Those studies used a VALIDATED tool (validated by a founding member of PROP, no less,…

Mark Bicket, MD, PhD, FASA @MarkBicket

2 weeks ago

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Pain News Network @PainNewsNetwork

a week ago

At least four top CDC officials resigned in protest after the ouster of CDC Director Susan Monarez. Among those leaving is Dr. Debra Houry, who played in instrumental role in the development and implementation of the 2016 CDC opioid guideline. bit.ly/4mGKIhU

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez

a week ago

What do turmoil at the CDC and new FDA recommendations mean for vaccines and public confidence? | my comments and interview with ⁦@hereandnowrobin⁩ ⁦@hereandnow⁩ ⁦@WBUR⁩ ⁦@NPR⁩ wbur.org/hereandnow/202…

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PAC @PACRiseUp

a week ago

@DrTomFrieden Correction The public, patients, physicians and the provision of healthcare have been under assault… as a result of CDC’s overreaching, draconian, failed, dangerous, unscientific, and corrupt public health initiatives.

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AMA @AmerMedicalAssn

2 weeks ago

New @FDA labeling requirements for opioid medications reinforces the critical point that physicians’ prescribing decisions must be based on whether the risks for the individual patient outweigh the benefits. spr.ly/6016fFgmG