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QRI is *literally* the only organization in the entire world pushing for research on anti-tolerance drugs to make painkillers more effective in the long term. Anti-tolerance drugs as a *field* doesn't exist apart from QRI. Let that sink in. There are no adults in the room.
In case you haven't seen it: https://t.co/NSYPof0Gi9 Also: https://t.co/bWMxVP4QNf
@altsanabo Opioidphobia. The cultural narrative that evils Big Pharma has pushed opioids. The naïve belief that you can treat 7/10+ pain with NSAIDs. Virtue Signaling: subtly implying that one would be able to deal with the pain with mindfulness and equanimity. "I'd just use weed", etc.
@algekalipso @altsanabo I mean Purdue really did produce misleading materials for Oxycontin, claiming the time release mechanism worked better than it did and encouraging higher doses over more frequent smaller doses. That's how you create addicts
@Paul_Melman @altsanabo The suffering caused by Purdue for misleading advertisement is a drop in the bucket relative to the unaddressed pain due to opioidphobia by doctors, let alone the recent horrible policies to discontinue opioid prescriptions for sufferers of severe chronic pain in lieu of NSAIDs.
@altsanabo Nobody is giving doctors permission to be courageous. It's a cultural issue plus fear of being associated with the naïve view that "opioids = good". > I still didn’t have the courage to do the weird thing without knowing other people were doing it first https://t.co/YvhAsvvAg6