The CDC Guidelines were written by a radical PROP (on steriods, non-board certified to treat pain patients,

Their denigration of pain patients has reached a new low with their latest claim by A. Kolodny, leader of the anti-opioid organization, PROP:

“Anyone taking opioids regularly is addicted.”

Anyone even spuriously accused of being an addict gets caught in the airtight dogma of recovery (your denial of being addicted is a sign of your addiction) and, instead of receiving proper treatment, they are placed at the mercy of an industry that is not regulated or controlled by anyone other than itself.

With the help of grieving parents, politicians, well-financed special interest groups, and even our government, the recovery industry has created a modern-day gold rush by exploiting the misery of pain patients.

The $35 Billion Addiction Treatment Industry & taxpayers footing the bill

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2015/04/27/inside-the-35-billion-addiction-treatment-industry/#e1492e517dc9

Urine Drug Test Often Gives False Results 50% Failure Rate-2015

“We always knew it wasn’t as sensitive and we always knew that it didn’t look for specific drugs within a class. But this was revealing in regard to how much it misses, with false negative and false positives rates in 40 to 50 percent in some instances,” said Passik.

“If we were in another area of medicine, let’s say oncology, and you had a tumor marker or a test that you were going to base important treatment decisions on, and it was as inaccurate as immunoassay is, the oncologists would never stand for it.”

https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/4/11/urine-drug-test-often-gives-false-results

A $17,850 urine test: Industry boom amid opioid epidemic

charged $4,675 to check her urine for a slew of different types of opioids: $2,975 for benzodiazepines, a class of drugs for treating anxiety, and $1,700 more for amphetamines. Tests to detect cocaine, marijuana and phencyclidine, an illegal hallucinogenic drug also known as PCP or angel dust, added $1,275 more.

The lab also billed $850 to test for buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid addiction, and tacked on an $850 fee for two tests to verify that nobody had tampered with her urine specimen.

Total bill: $17,850 for lab tests that her insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, refused to cover, apparently because the lab was not in her insurance network.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/19/health/opioid-drug-test-bill-partner/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0Cv6E1H6kzZaA9Jbtxykv617Zu07TB5tvtjqjL3OMf6-E5Fm1j7mSFYRA

The Government-Driven Opioid Epidemic

January 2018

https://www.lifeextension.com/Magazine/2018/1/Government-Driven-Opioid-Epidemic/Page-01