MichelleWagnerTalley MSRC,LPC,BCPC

Really I can’t believe it. There’s a lot of dumb people still in this country that will follow this man to hell.

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Ladies, I need your honest opinion. My daughter’s fiancé gave her this ring, but when she showed it to me, I told her it looked small and not very nice, and that she should ask him to replace it with something better. She refused to say anything to him, but I just want the best for my daughter. Do you think I’m right, or am I overstepping? Be honest Ladies 👀💍

Your mad because Claudia has different political views than you? She can only fight for pain patients if she agrees with your extreme political beliefs? She is gaining followers everyday so nice try. 🥱🥱🥱

Just got a message from another cancer pt. This one had a heart attack from chemo and had open heart surgery. His surgeon won't treat post op pain, and his oncologist won't treat his cancer pain. I am begging one of you to give us a chance and cover this issue. We have tens of thousands of stories. Please. Millions are suffering and dying. Please. @greggutfeld @JillianMichaels @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @joerogan @RubinReport

SHORT🧵 The False Premise Behind the NOPAIN for Veterans Act — From a Marine Veteran Living With Chronic Pain: 1. The False Narrative The NOPAIN for Veterans Act (H.R. 4509) is being sold as a way to give veterans access to safer, non-opioid pain medication options. Sponsors like Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH), Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH), Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI), Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL), and Rep. Abraham Hamadeh (R-AZ) repeat the same line: veterans are supposedly at high risk of addiction from post-surgery opioid prescriptions, so the VA must be pushed toward non-opioids. Hypocrisy #1: “Veterans deserve safer options.” • Their claim: Lawmakers act like the VA is freely handing out opioids, with no alternatives. • Reality: Veterans already drown in non-opioid “options” steroid injections, NSAIDs, nerve blocks, PT, acupuncture. The VA barely prescribes opioids as it is. 2. My Dad: A Case Study in Denial My own father is an 85-year-old Navy veteran. He suffers from severe sciatica and he’s one fall away from a total knee replacement. God bless my dad. The VA has given him everything under the sun — steroid injections in his knees every six months, shots in his arm and backside, powerful anti-inflammatories like diclofenac, prednisone tapers (high-dose steroids stepped down over days to calm inflammation), and lidocaine patches (which they hand out like flyers at a liquor store). When he had his worst sciatica flare in years, his blood pressure spiked dangerously from the pain. At the VA, they gave him a 10 mg Percocet. Within an hour, his pain was gone. For the first time, he could breathe, relax, function. So he did what any reasonable veteran would do: he asked, “Can I please get a short script? Just a few pills?” The answer: “No. We’re not doing that for you.” This is an 85-year-old man. A father. A grandfather. A Navy veteran. They wouldn’t even give him a three-day supply, nine tiny 5 mg pills for an acute flare that left him writhing. Hypocrisy: They claim veterans need “safer options,” yet my dad has been flooded with them for years. He’s been offered injections, anti-inflammatories, prednisone tapers, lidocaine patches, you name it. But when one opioid finally worked, they denied him even for short-term relief. 2b. The Warning from the ER: When I went to the ER for pleurisy, the doctor told me before discharge: “The VA is steering toward a completely non-opioid system.” She didn’t say “NOPAIN Act,” but that’s exactly what she was describing. The shift is already happening at the bedside — veterans are losing options before the law is even passed. 3. Why the Numbers Don’t Add Up: The whole justification for this bill is the claim that “many addictions start with a post-surgery prescription.” But the actual statistics tell a different story: • General population (opioid-naïve): About 6% still have an opioid prescription 90–180 days after surgery. Addiction rates are far lower. • Veterans (VA-wide, ambulatory surgery): 9.6% had a persistent script at 90–180 days, but only 1.8% became long-term users beyond 6 months — and both numbers were declining sharply over time. • Veterans, opioid-naïve: Only ~3.3–3.4% persistent use, and the biggest risks were cancer, mental-health diagnoses, or prior substance use — not the surgery itself. Hypocrisy #2: “Many addictions start after surgery.” • Their claim: Post-surgical opioid prescribing is a main driver of addiction. • Reality: The data proves otherwise. Addiction linked to surgery scripts is rare especially in veterans and it has been dropping steadily. Yet lawmakers keep repeating this line because it’s politically convenient.

Those who help pain patients by helping them to receive the best medicine, treatment or therapy which helps to control chronic, severe pain and avoid the deadly side effects and complications of under treated or untreated chronic severe pain are literally saving the patients’ lives.