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I checked in to the ACSH website as it has been almost a month, with holidays and whatnot, and I was blown away by the article Dr. Bloom had published on December 12, 2018.
I didn’t catch this and I am putting it up immediately because it is important and deserves to be read far and wide.
Why no one is talking about this? Well, of course we know why.
It is another bomb that blows the “opioid crisis” to shreds.
Every time we see another truth come out, no one cares.
It’s so frustrating to the point of parody now, folks.
Anyone who actually thinks the opioid crisis is a real, live epidemic of prescription pill misuse/overuse is not paying attention to a damn thing.
However, the media ignored the data Dr. Bloom exposed, because they have their story and they are sticking to it, come hell or high water.
It matters not what we prove. They are not ever going to report facts.
We need to understand that.
The frustrating issue is how entrenched the narrative they have promulgated is in the national consciousness.
Dr. Bloom’s article is titled:
“Dear PROP/CDC, Here’s What Happens When You Over-Restrict Pills: More Deaths. Nice Going.”
I am a fangirl of Dr. Bloom’s work.
I admit it.
Not in a creepy way, I swear.
I admire Dr. Bloom and respect the heck out of him.
I send links to my husband of all of his work and point out how awesome and personable his writing is.
That’s it.
He writes in a unique style that makes me laugh and also educates me.
For a scientist… that’s amazing.
In this article, Dr. Bloom shows the public just how ridiculous the CDC, media, and Dr. Andrew Kolodny’s group PROP (Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing) is when they shriek regarding the “overprescribing” of opioid medication.
He uses science and facts, unlike the champions of opioid throttling, who use emotion and rhetoric.
He writes:
If Shakespeare were alive today, he would be hard-pressed to come up with a script that could match the tragedy that has been imposed on this country by self-appointed drug experts, bureaucrats, self-serving politicians, and various other fools. It’s that bad. And it was largely preventable.
So, let’s all congratulate the CDC for sticking its nose where it should not have been and the Physicians Responsible for Opioid Prohibition (1) for creating a mess that we will not be getting out of anytime soon. A new report from in the December 12th National Vital Statistics Reports (NVSR) confirms what patient pain advocates and I have been saying all along — that we’ve been fighting the wrong war (against prescription opioid analgesics) and, in doing so, managed to screw two things up at the same time.
“Pain patients are suffering”
More people, not fewer, are dying
One can only hope that the press, which has been pathetically inept in its coverage of the “opioid crisis,” which is really the “fentanyl crisis,” might pay attention to the new report and possibly start to get the story right. But don’t get your hopes up. To do so would entail not only reading the report but also, understanding what it says.
I’ll make it easy for them.
As I’ve written repeatedly, pills are not the real problem
(See No, Vicodin Is Not The Real Killer In The Opioid Crisis and The Opioid Epidemic In 6 Charts Designed To Deceive You);
it is the difficulty of obtaining them that is now. The NVSR makes this painfully obvious. Here’s why.
In 2011 (Table 1), there were 41,340 overdose deaths from all drugs — legal, illegal, prescription, and over the counter. Oxycodone was the primary cause of OD deaths (5,587, 13.5% of total). But a closer look at Table 1 reveals some interesting facts.
