Jaime Sanchez has worn many hats throughout her life, but her favorite role is being a mother. She has a diverse background, having studied and worked in fields like nursing, physical therapy, criminal justice, and early elementary teacher education, as well as home-business ownership, management, waitressing, and human resources, not in chronological order.

Jaime is a volunteer hostess and graphic assistant of the show “DocToks with Dr. Forest Tennant and Friends”, offering her help in the pain and addiction communities. She dreams of the day these communities unite to stand together. She hopes all people will recognize that anyone could face similar challenges, especially due to an accident, injury, or unexpected illness.

She recently wrote an article for Daily Remedy, Pain Upon Pain: https://www.daily-remedy.com/pain-upon-pain/

#Forest #Tennant #chronic #pain #patient #advocacy

To the chronic pain and hospice patient communities:

I have lived my life in MN growing up the youngest of five. My Mom was trained as a nurse but she was a stay at home Mom. I graduated high school in 1976 and got my BS in Animal Science at the U of MN. I started graduate school but never finished. I have spent the last 25 years of my life devoted to breeding and showing English Setter dogs. I live by myself in Minneapolis. My health issues started with knee surgery in college and I had ductal carcinoma at age 27. Sadly I opted for implants and they caused many issues.

I went onto full time disability at age 36. I’ve been on LTOT since 1998. When I was going through the month of testing to find out why I was short of breath I started thinking that if the news wasn’t good at least I wouldn’t have to worry about losing access to my meds. How crazy is that to see a terminal diagnosis as a blessing. When they finally figured out it was AML and I have the worst mutations possible I knew I would choose hospice right away. My first hospice company was horrible. Their doctor drew a line in the sand and she refused to prescribe my OxyContin, and instead gave me MS Contin and cut my MME by 12%.

This put me into withdrawals. I was so sick from the meds. Even my pharmacist told the doctor that would put me into withdrawals. I fired that company and thankfully was put back on OxyContin. The new company has been bending over backwards to make sure I am as comfortable as I can be with the cancer that has spread to T11 and L3 and now my pelvis. I want to discuss end of life options, how we got to this place where even hospice patients are not guaranteed relief from their pain. It’s a crazy time and I’m afraid if we don’t start to see some change we will become an opioid free country as doctors will no longer be allowed to prescribe them.

Regards,

Laurie

If you have any questions, email her at: [email protected]

To read about her advocacy, select the following link: https://www.daily-remedy.com/my-dying-wish/

#assisted #suicide #death #hospice #end #life

Dr. Jonathan (Josh) Bloom, ACSH's Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Virginia, followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania. His first career was in drug discovery research, mostly at Wyeth.

During this time he participated in research in a number of therapeutic areas, including diabetes and obesity, new antibiotics, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis C. His group discovered the novel antibiotic Tygacil®, which was approved by the FDA for use against resistant bacterial infections in 2005. He is the author of 25 patents, and 35 academic papers, including a chapter on new therapies for hepatitis C in Burger’s Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery, and Development, 7th Edition (Wiley, 2010). Dr. Bloom joined the American Council on Science and Health in 2010 as Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The articles featured are:

DEA Chasing Its Tail Again: This Time, It's 'Synthetic

https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/12/20/dea-chasing-its-tail-again-time-its-synthetic-cannabinoids-17523

Tylenol Plus Advil Combo: Innovation Or Exploitation?

https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/12/28/tylenol-plus-advil-combo-innovation-or-exploitation-17549

#ACSH #Josh #Bloom #DEA #pharmaceutical #industry #American #Council #Science #Health

We discuss the importance of writing amicus curiae briefs

Takeaways:

Referenced legal documents:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GDG9984Fh3kYw5iEP0uuVfrx23LtAnbm/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hUldHS7ATQVG2kCXScjC9AKCoekjpddH/view?usp=sharing

#health #law #abortion #opioids #gun #SCOTUS #amicus

We explain the origins and purpose of deductibles in health insurance plans.

#insurance #deductibles #premium #copay #underwriting #risk #health

Dr. Joshi advises patients and the general public to be wary of inflammatory political rhetoric in the upcoming 2024 election cycle.
He explains how politicians will try to -
1. Oversimplify
2. Conflate
3. Polarize
- key health issues and health policy in order to galvanize voters and increase voter turnout. But remember, as Dr. Joshi cautions, what's good for the politician is not what's good for society!
#polarization #misinformation #disinformation #election #politician #health #policy

We speak with Matt Papagno, the CEO of Clozex Medical. Clozex Medical, Inc. is an innovator in revolutionary skin closure technologies. Closures made with Clozex Medical technology are faster, safer, less expensive, and easier to use. They reduce infections and produce better cosmetic results than any other skin closure technology. They are the defining innovation in a new class of closures called coaptive films.

To learn more about Clozex Medical, select the following link:

https://www.clozex.com/

#Clozex #Medical #wound #closure #healing

Dr. Jeffrey Singer is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and works in the Department of Health Policy Studies. He is a nationally recognized thought leader in health policy, particularly the harmful effects of drug prohibition.

He has written extensively about the importance of harm reduction and follows national and state policy closely.

The JAMA article cited during the podcast that questions the legitimacy of MME (Morphine Milligram Equivalents) is in the following link:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/358674

#prohibition #drugs #overdose #fentanyl #carfentanil #nitazene #xylazine

Dr. David Lewis is an Anesthesiologist, Pain Management Specialist who fortunately or unfortunately is known for his medical acumen and legal experience. He was acquitted for prescribing opioids without legitimate medical cause and insurance fraud after a grueling, highly publicized legal battle. We discuss his case and analyze lessons we can learn.

#pain #opioids #DOJ #DEA #crisis #injustice #criminal #justice #reform

We continue the conversation and delve further into opioid mortality statistics, exposing misrepresentations and debunking purported causal relationships between opioid prescriptions and mortality.

CDC articles referenced in podcast are as follows:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5844400/

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6450a3.htm?s_cid=mm6450a3_w

#Opioids #Overdose #Mortality #CDC #DEA #Data #Statistics