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If you want to understand the day to day issues of real people then please watch the documentary Pain Warriors that is about Chronic Pain. It is five stories

If you want to understand the day to day issues of real people then please watch the documentary *Pain Warriors* that is about Chronic Pain. It is five stories, four of people with Chronic Pain, two that ended in suicides. My late wife Karen being one of them. The other story is of a doctor that the Medical Establishment destroyed for helping those with Chronic Pain. It is *NOT* a warm and fuzzy movie to watch. For full disclosure I am a member of the cast, have been intimately involved in Pain Warriors production for several years. I receive no remuneration of any type. It is my mission to raise awareness of those suffering from Chronic Pain and Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leaks. Pain Warriors can be found on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play, Viemo (for international) and YouTube (sometimes, they are weird). The distributor set the pricing for the platforms and regions so check around for your best place to watch it. We could really use your help. Our goal is to get Pain Warriors on Nexflix to reach a wider audience. For that to happen we need to have over a 100 positive reviews on The Internet Movie Database (the 100+ positive reviews on the other platforms don't count to Netflix). Our segment in Pain Warriors is based on what has become known as "Karen's Journal". One reviewer wrote: "Karen's first-hand account of her illness gave an honest, heart-wrenching depiction of what it is like to live with debilitating pain day-to-day." Thank You for your help and bring up this subject here.

rpaddock 6y ago
For more details check these sites. They cover some of the things that have happened after the release of Pain Warriors: http://www.kpaddock.com/pw http://www.kpaddock.com/pw http://www.kpaddock.org http://www.kpaddock.org
koheripbal 6y ago
> The other story is of a doctor that the Medical Establishment destroyed for helping those with Chronic Pain. Was this the result of the industry crack down on the over-prescription of opioids and various opioid manufacturers being forced to cut opioid production and marketing? Society went from one extreme of "we need to treat pain like a disease and medicate it", to the other extreme of "Holy moly we created an opioid epidemic, we need to cut production and sue manufacturers." Obviously there were a lot of bad actors at play, and I imagine some legitimate practices and patients were collateral damage during these over-reactions.
- arbitrage 6y ago
  I don't know about this specific movie, but my real life experience is that a doctor who dares to be compassionate in terms of long-term pain or opioid-substitution treatment often gets shunned by other medical professionals in the local community, up to and including blacklisting and professional/organisational harassment. like ... if the community turns against one of their own, they manufacture a sort-of constructive dismissal sort of arrangement, and the doctor who stepped out of line behaves and never does that again, quits, or goes out of business. It can be remarkably brutal and ruthless, and i have no doubt that it is purposeful and cruel by desgin.

If you want to understand the day to day issues of real people then please watch the documentary *Pain Warriors* that is about Chronic Pain. It is five stories

rpaddock 6y ago

For more details check these sites. They cover some of the things that have happened after the release of Pain Warriors: http://www.kpaddock.com/pw http://www.kpaddock.com/pw http://www.kpaddock.org http://www.kpaddock.org

koheripbal 6y ago

> The other story is of a doctor that the Medical Establishment destroyed for helping those with Chronic Pain. Was this the result of the industry crack down on the over-prescription of opioids and various opioid manufacturers being forced to cut opioid production and marketing? Society went from one extreme of "we need to treat pain like a disease and medicate it", to the other extreme of "Holy moly we created an opioid epidemic, we need to cut production and sue manufacturers." Obviously there were a lot of bad actors at play, and I imagine some legitimate practices and patients were collateral damage during these over-reactions.

arbitrage 6y ago
I don't know about this specific movie, but my real life experience is that a doctor who dares to be compassionate in terms of long-term pain or opioid-substitution treatment often gets shunned by other medical professionals in the local community, up to and including blacklisting and professional/organisational harassment. like ... if the community turns against one of their own, they manufacture a sort-of constructive dismissal sort of arrangement, and the doctor who stepped out of line behaves and never does that again, quits, or goes out of business. It can be remarkably brutal and ruthless, and i have no doubt that it is purposeful and cruel by desgin.