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Objective: Quickly Educate Someone About Pain Killers & Politics
This page is intended to supplement the new Facebook networking group:
facebook.com/groups/hawaiipainpatient
The Hawai'i Pain Patient FB group is a place to post news items, current events, and network with others in Hawai'i.
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- Welcome
- What is Chronic Pain (CP) & What's a CP Patient (CPP)?
- What is the Opioid Crisis?
- History of Opioids & Recent Politics
- What Can *You* Do To End the Pain Management Crisis?
- Advocacy in Hawai‘i
- Find Help & Support in Hawai'i
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What is Chronic Pain (CP) & What's a CP Patient (CPP)?
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Reserved for a Good Description of Chronic Pain
Reserved for a Good Description of Chronic Pain
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What is the Opioid Crisis?
Health Worker's Perspective
Chronic Pain Patient's Perspective
Chronic Pain Patient's Perspective
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Chronic Pain Patient's Perspective
Chronic Pain Patient's Perspective
Chronic Pain Patient's Perspective
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History of Opioids & Recent Politics
Cops Practicing Medicine
Government Data Is Flawed
Government Data Is Flawed
People have used opium and its derivatives both medically and recreationally since antiquity. However, since the early 20th century, law and society have viewed people who use opioids, cocaine, and certain other psychoactive substances as immoral and even criminal. For more than 100 years, this viewpoint has destructively intruded on the patient‐doctor relationship. Government and law enforcement increasingly surveil and influence the way doctors treat pain, psychoactive substance use, and substance use disorder. This change has happened in two discernible waves, which we call Drug War I and Drug War II.
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Government Data Is Flawed
Government Data Is Flawed
Government Data Is Flawed
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), "is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation and to improve the lives of individuals living with mental and substance use disorders, and their families." SAMHSA 2015 survey results are misleading because of the new definition of "misuse." As one Hawaii CPP wrote, " In the clinical trial I was in, they asked point blank, 'Do you take your medication as prescribed or as needed?” Tricky. The new definition of misuse is, 'ANYWAY YOURE TAKING MEDICATION THAT DIFFERS FROM HOW YOUR DOCTOR PRESCRIBED IT. ' I had to explain to my physician that my prescription must read '4 Percocet every 24 hours' instead of '1 Percocet every 6 hours' because if I was in a great deal of pain and took 2 Percocet within 6 hours, I would’ve been MISUSING my medication."
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What Can *You* Do To End the Pain Management Crisis?
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The Doctor Patient Forum National Facebook Group
The Doctor Patient Forum is a national Facebook group with over 24,000 members most of whom are Chronic Pain Patients and Medical Professionals. This group "is created to bring awareness to the millions of pain sufferers who cannot access long-term opioid therapy as well protecting prescribers."
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TheDoctorPatientForum.com
Hard-Won Wisdom About Getting State Legislation Passed
Mission: To advocate, educate, and protect the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, while equipping our constituents with resources and tools to maintain quality-filled lives.
- Eliminate patient fear
- Eliminate doctor fear
- Restoring the doctor-patient relationship
- Medical board accountability
- Legislation protection for all
- Stop insurance company interference
- Stop pharmacy interference
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Hard-Won Wisdom About Getting State Legislation Passed
Hard-Won Wisdom About Getting State Legislation Passed
Hard-Won Wisdom About Getting State Legislation Passed
New Hampshire Treatment of Chronic Pain Legislation - NOW LAW, HB1639, was signed by Governor Sununu in August of 2020.
CPP advocate from NH, Bill Murphy gives you the ins and outs of how to get legislation passed in your state -- what to do, and what not to do.
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Advocacy in Hawai'i
Groups You Can Join & Those You Can Watch
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Hawai‘i The Doctor Patient Forum
This is the Facebook group of the Hawai‘i chapter of the national group, The Doctor Patient Forum, described as a page created to bring awareness to the millions of pain sufferers who cannot access long-term opioid therapy as well protecting prescribers. This organization began as the "Don't Punish Pain Rally" (DPPR). So, at this time, the Facebook group for Hawai‘i is HIDPPR.
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Kokua Mau - Continuous Care
Kokua Mau - Continuous Care
Kōkua Mau is a Movement to Improve Care for those with serious illness and their loved ones. We are Hawaii’s trusted resource for accurate information on Advance Care Planning (ACP) including Advance Directives and POLST, palliative care, which provides relief from the symptoms and stress of illness, and hospice care which provides the best care possible at the end of life. (Kōkua Mau means ‘Continuous Care‘ in Hawaiian.)
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Kokua Mau - Continuous Care
Kokua Mau - Continuous Care
Kōkua Mau is a Movement to Improve Care for those with serious illness and their loved ones. We are Hawaii’s trusted resource for accurate information on Advance Care Planning (ACP) including Advance Directives and POLST, palliative care, which provides relief from the symptoms and stress of illness, and hospice care which provides the best care possible at the end of life. (Kōkua Mau means ‘Continuous Care‘ in Hawaiian.)
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Finding Help in Hawaiʻi
Hawaiʻi Health & Harm Reduction Center
Drop Off Old Drugs - Keep the Aina Free from Poisons
Drop Off Old Drugs - Keep the Aina Free from Poisons
The Hawai'i Health and Harm Reduction Center serves Hawai’i communities by reducing the harm and fighting the stigma of HIV, hepatitis, homelessness, substance use, mental illness, and poverty in our community. We focus our efforts on those disproportionately affected by social determinants of health, including but not limited to: people living with and/or affected by HIV, hepatitis, substance use, and the transgender, LGBQ and the Native Hawaiian communities. We foster health, wellness, and systemic change in Hawai’i and the Pacific through care services, advocacy, training, prevention, education, and capacity building.
Drop Off Old Drugs - Keep the Aina Free from Poisons
Drop Off Old Drugs - Keep the Aina Free from Poisons
Drop Off Old Drugs - Keep the Aina Free from Poisons
On every inhabited Hawaii island, there are drop off locations for fentanyl-laced, old, and unused drugs. For locations, go to: hawaiiopioid.org/drug-take-back
Hawaiʻi Opioid Initiative
Drop Off Old Drugs - Keep the Aina Free from Poisons
Hawaiʻi Opioid Initiative
The Hawaiʻi Opioid Initiative (HOI) is a collaboration of public health, public safety, healthcare professionals, and community partners working together to address opioid and other drug use, misuse, and overdose. The HOI started in 2017 and has eight workgroups that meet regularly to implement the HOI strategic plan and promote system improvement by integrating substance use prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction within Hawaiʻi’s healthcare system.