PHARMACIST STEVE

I have created a new twitter account @painedlives and painedlives@gmail.com. There is a methodology of creating “lists” within Twitter so that you can send a tweet to a large number of people with a single tweet. Dr Linda Cheek has done a lot of work generating a spread sheet with contact info for the members of Congress.

But they have to be moved to the Twitter lists one at a time… with a simple cut/paste… I have created the 100 Senators list… but there are many lists that can be created… including the media.. which there is a web page with all this information www.usnpl.com   but again it needs to be cut/paste to a twitter list.

I have created a Google spreadsheet – in the cloud –  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DpY4MNPiHxFUdVJPpnQxdq7wCduIHC9Y5AOmm0ZPgc0/edit#gid=1001220689 that can be worked

That can be worked on my multiple people at the same time to organize these Twitter names.

Using Twitter in this methodology… all tweets can be sent out anonymously.

I have posted a couple of times in the last week + and have only a couple of people contact me to help with this project…. BUT… not the first new addiction to the spreadsheet or Twitter list has been done.

The new Congress is up and running… we have a new President in 16 days. The Head of the CDC has already submitted his resignation.  The Surgeon General recently announced that addiction is a “brain disease”.. which strongly suggests that the legal prescribing of opiates CANNOT cause a “brain disease”.

It is reported that Marijuana is 30% of the DEA’s budget and they are losing oversight of it state by state… we now have > 50% of the states have legalized it is some way… but.. they are not going to “go down” without a fight… they have tried to change the status of Kratom and CBD..  their jobs, budgets are more important to them than the quality of life of any of our citizens.

Our new Vice President is – IMO – opiophobic – Indiana is one of the four states that has made Kratom ILLEGAL.. Indiana has been NUMBER ONE in pharmacy robberies, it has been at the top of the list for Meth lab busts, it is where – in one small county, (population of 25,000) had abt 170 new HIV +, HEP B&C and only reluctantly did Pence initiate a clean needle program.. and ONLY IN THAT ONE SMALL COUNTY… the other 91 counties where on their own.  They no longer talk about Opiate OD’s or Heroin use… best guess … is it because the numbers are so badly increasing.

There seems to be like this new Congress is going to be very active.. and healthcare, cost of healthcare and repealing/replacing Obamacare is going to be front and center. The chronic pain community can be part of that discussion… or they can continue to whine, bitch, moan to each other on Face Book pages… which will accomplish … ABSOLUTELY NOTHING… except to allow the current downhill path adversely impacting the quality of life of those in the chronic pain community.

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