Why Pain Patients Became the Villains of the Opioid Crisis – Episode 58
The Dismantling of Pain Care by Addiction Medicine, And the Patients Sacrificed. A Decade of Harm. – Episode 59
ACEs & the Opioid Risk Tool Explained | How Trauma History Is Used to Flag Patients and Deny Pain Care Episode 60
This episode breaks down ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT) — what these tools were actually designed for, and how they’re often misapplied in pain care to flag patients as “high risk” and deny treatment. We walk through: • what ACEs really measure • how the Opioid Risk Tool was created […]
How Litigation Wins Become Pt Losses – When Grief Becomes a Weapon and Patients Become Collateral – Episode 61
After years of hearing the same opioid presentation from Andrew Kolodny, something changed — kratom suddenly became the “next crisis.” That wasn’t random.In this video, I break down: •How mass-tort litigation narratives are built • How experts, media, and parent groups align • How settlement money shapes policy messaging • Why kratom is being […]
Episode 62 – PROP Says Pain Patients Have OUD. The FDA Data Tell a Different Story.
August 30, 2026 What happens when the FDA finally gets the opioid data everyone claimed to want—and the results don’t support the story they’ve been selling for more than a decade? Episode 62 digs into the FDA-mandated opioid Postmarketing Requirement studies, the May 2025 FDA meeting, and the extraordinary gap between OUD rates produced by […]