Movie: Cleaner (2025) Caution Spoiler Alert

 

Cleaner

Came out; 2025

Time; 1 hours 37 Minutes

Watched: Hulu

Rated: R for violence, language throughout and brief drug use

IMDB Rating; 5.2/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 51%

Popcorn Meter 66%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Daisy Ridley as Joey

Matthew Tuck as Michael

Lee Boardman as Gerald Milton

Rufus Jones as Geoffrey Milton

Tax Skylar as Noah

Melissa Humler as Freya

Story Line;

Set in present-day London, a group of radical activists take over an energy company's annual gala, seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by an extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world. It falls to an ex-soldier turned window cleaner, played by Ridley, suspended 50 storeys up on the outside of the building, to save those trapped inside, including her younger brother.

Thoughts:

There was a ton of unnecessary back story in this movie. Stuff that didn't really pertain to what was happening now

This was your typical “Bad guys take over, Bad guys turn on each other, unsuspected bi-stander saves the day” movie. It didn't really stand out compared to the others

It kept pace but just didn't stand out

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

Joanna "Joey" Locke and her older brother Michael have grown up in a London household with an abusive father, which forced Joey to take to wall-climbing to escape the domestic violence. Twenty years later, as an adult and former soldier who quit after beating up a perverted squad-mate, Joey looks after Michael, who is autistic and crusading online against corruption at his care homes. One day, she is forced to take him to her workplace at One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, where she works as a window cleaner.

While Joey cleans windows on the highrise alongside her colleague Noah, Michael slips away at an unguarded moment in an attempt to join her. Amidst a shareholder gala held by the Agnian Energy Company in the building, an environmental activist group naming itself Earth Revolution, of which Noah is a member, executes a violent takeover using sleeping gas canisters and taking Agnian's administration, including company owners Geoffrey and Gerald Milton, and guests hostage. Marcus Blake, the group's leader, is intent on exposing Agnian's hypocrisy, as the company is promoting environmental exploitation and pollution, contrary to its publicly declared goal of switching to cleaner, renewable forms of energy, and has even murdered arrested members of the group before they could testify in their trials. When Geoffrey tries to parley with them, Noah kills him despite Blake's orders, and Gerald runs off to hide. After the fugitive is cornered, Noah, who disagrees with Blake's idealism, murders him and his loyalists, usurps leadership of the group and rigs the hostages with explosives fitted with a dead man's switch synchronized to Noah's heartbeat.

Joey and Michael just barely escape being knocked out, but Joey is stuck on the building's facade. Her use of a SOS fire signal alerts the terrorists to her presence, but they leave her outside, believing her neutralized. As the police surround the building, Noah forces the hostages to record confessions about their crimes for Agnian or their complicity in them, and coerces Joey into framing herself as a terrorist, focusing the authorities' attention on her for the moment. Claire Hume, the leader of the police task force, luckily doubts appearances and allows Joey to contact her, thus learning about the actual situation. After Hume vainly tries to negotiate with Noah, she reluctantly gives Joey permission to infiltrate the building and create an opening for the SWAT teams' assault.

Noah tries to murder Joey by lowering an explosive charge down to her position, but she barely escapes and has Hume have SWAT shoot several holes into the building's bulletproof glass windows, allowing her entry with Michael's help. Noah sends some of his men after them, but Joey and Michael kill them and seize their weapons. After taking over the control room, and seeing one of Noah's old antihumanist YouTube video clips in which Noah announces his intention of blowing up the building and the hostages, Michael feeds it into the internet, exposing Noah's crusade as a farce, and transfers the forced confessions to a USB drive.

After sending Michael downstairs and telling Hume to send her men in, Joey lures Noah to her in order to disable the bomb trigger. While the commandos secure the hostages, Joey and Noah face off in a brutal brawl near a hole in the facade caused by the earlier explosion. During their fight, Joey swipes the trigger device from Noah's wrist and attaches it to her own, then pushes Noah out of the blast hole to fall to his death. After the police clear the building and a short debriefing with Hume, Joey reunites with Michael. They use the information on the drive to expose Agnian's corruption to the world, and retreat to the coast for some quiet time together.

Movie: The Wrecking Crew (2026) Caution Spoiler Alert

 

The Wrecking Crew

Came out; 2026

Time; 2 hours 4 Minutes

Watched: Amazon

Rated: R for strong bloody violence, sexual material, pervasive language and some drug use

IMDB Rating; 6.5/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 74%

Popcorn Meter 68%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Dave Bautista as James Hale

Jason Momoa as Jonny Hale

Temuera Morrison as Governor Peter Mahoe

Frankie Adams as Haunani Palakiko

Claes Bang as Marcus Robichuax

Jacob Hatalon as Pika

Morena Baccarin as Valentina

Stephen Root as Detective Rennert

Story Line;

Estranged half-brothers Jonny and James reunite after their father's mysterious death. As they search for the truth, buried secrets reveal a conspiracy threatening to tear their family apart

Thoughts:

This was a pretty good movie! It was funny and lots of action

Like most action movies it had several of those “That would have killed him” sequences and action that couldn't actually happen in real life

The actors had chemistry and it was easy to follow

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

Private investigator Walter Hale (Brian L. Keaulana) is killed in an apparent hit and run in Hawaii. His sons and estranged half-brothers, US Navy SEAL James (Dave Bautista) and suspended police detective Johnny (Jason Momoa) are informed of his passing. Yakuza thugs attack Johnny at his Oklahoma home, believing that Walter had sent him a package. Although initially ambivalent about Walter's passing because of their non-existent relationship, Johnny decides to head to Hawaii to attend the funeral and investigate his death. There, he is reunited with James and meets his wife Leila (Roimata Fox) and their children, as well as their cousin Nani (Frankie Adams) who works for longtime family friend Governor Peter Mahoe (Temuera Morrison).

Both Johnny and James investigate Walter's death separately, converging on his ransacked apartment. They work with Walter's assistant Pika (Jacob Batalon) and find blueprints for a casino hidden in a surfboard. With Nani's help, they discover the casino is to be built on Hawaiian home lands, with the site already home to a small community. Johnny and James infiltrate an art museum fundraiser benefit held at developer Marcus Robichaux's (Claes Bang) house. Johnny discovers that Walter had been hired by both Marcus and his wife Monica (Lydia Peckham) to investigate each other, while James encounters yakuza leader Nakamura (Miyavi) whose shell company owns the vehicle involved in Walter's death. Johnny goes to meet Monica the next day but finds her dead; believing Marcus to be responsible, he returns to the house to confront him, but is beat up by Marcus' security and locked up in jail.

After Johnny is released, James and Johnny fight each other to settle their differences, with Johnny revealing that he is motivated to investigate Walter's death because he was unable to solve the murder of his own mother, while James reveals that he sent Johnny away to save his life from the Syndicate, a local crime group that Johnny blames for his mother's death, leading to their estrangement. Johnny's ex-girlfriend Valentina (Morena Baccarin) calls him from Oklahoma, telling him that a package from Walter had arrived at his house. After Valentina personally delivers the package to Hawaii, they find it contains a flash drive that acts as a security key to a digital wallet owned by Walter before they are attacked by more yakuza. After fighting them off, they discover the digital wallet contains millions of dollars as well as transaction information relating to offshore bank accounts owned by Governor Mahoe. They come to the conclusion that Robichaux, in league with the yakuza, has been bribing the Governor to legalize gambling and to give him permission to build a casino on Hawaiian home land, and that Walter was murdered after he uncovered the plot and sent the flash drive to Johnny.

James and Johnny receive a call from Robichaux revealing that he has kidnapped Leila and Nani, and demands the flash drive for their lives. James and Johnny assault his house, rescue Leila and Nani, and kill Nakamura and Robichaux. Mahoe is arrested for corruption while the leader of the Syndicate gives Johnny the name of the man who killed his mother in appreciation for dealing with the yakuza; however Johnny burns the paper with the killer's name in a barbecue. Johnny decides to stay in Hawaii with James and they make plans to spend the millions left to them by Walter in the digital wallet.

Chronic Pain Thoughts: Doctor Patient Forum Repost: Millions of Pain Patients Are Abandoned. Silence Is Complicity.

 

For years, pain patients were told to fight for harm reduction.

We did.

We defended it publicly.
We were told it helped us too.
We were told, “We’re in this together.”

When we say “abandoned pain patients,” we are talking about people with severe chronic illness and disability cancer survivors, neurological disease, connective tissue disorders, spinal injuries, degenerative conditions, and rare diseases who were stable on opioid therapy and then cut off.

Now let’s talk reality.

Workforce:

Harm reduction workforce (very rough estimate):
Between 75,000 and 250,000 paid workers nationwide.

That includes:

• State and local Departments of Health

• CDC-funded programs and centers

• University-based harm-reduction initiatives

• SAMHSA grant recipients

• Nonprofits, outreach teams, peers, administrators

That is a massive, funded workforce with salaries, platforms, and access to legislators.

Pain patients abandoned from opioid care:
Zero funded workers.
No federal or state workforce assigned to them.
No program offices.
No case managers.
No rapid response teams.

Funding:

Harm reduction funding:

• Hundreds of millions of dollars per year in direct federal harm-reduction and overdose-prevention funding

• $1–2+ billion annually in federal opioid response and grant funding that states can use for harm-reduction activities

This money pays salaries, builds programs, funds research, supports advocacy, and sustains institutions.

Funding for abandoned pain patients who lost access to opioids:
$0.

No federal grants.
No state grants.
No dedicated funding streams.

Not “very little.”
Not “hard to track.”
Just Zero. $0. Nada. Nothing.

The one program that was supposed to help:

There is exactly one federal program that was supposed to respond when opioid policy causes harm and when clinics close: the Opioid Rapid Response Program (ORRP).

ORRP is run through the CDC, with involvement from federal agencies including the Office of Inspector General and the DEA.

What did ORRP do?

• Excluded pain patients from public meetings

• Banned DPF, the only national organization documenting pain-patient abandonment

• Dismissed and mocked pain patients who called begging for help

• Lied about DPF, having us blacklisted from public meetings both through ORRP, Project Echo, and ASTHO. (Yes, we have the receipts in FOIA responses)

So let’s be clear.
This problem was assigned to one office.
That office chose not to act other than shuffling pain patients into addiction clinics. That office called DPF and left what felt like a threatening message. We have the FOIA response to prove they lied about DPF and had us blacklisted.

Scale of the populations:

Estimated people with opioid use disorder: ~2–3 million
Tracked. Counted. Funded. Surveyed annually.

Estimated people still on daily opioids for pain: ~8–11 million

How many pain patients are currently medically abandoned?
How many will lose care next year?

We do not know.

Because no one even bothers to count them.

More hypocrisy:

An Office of Inspector General report flagged it as unacceptable if a Suboxone clinic was more than five miles from a patient.

Five miles.

Pain patients today are:

• Driving hundreds of miles

• Flying across the country

• Bedbound and unable to travel at all

• Plus, further than 50 miles is considered a red flag, which leads to more medical abandonment.

So, I am still waiting to hear how harm reduction is helping abandoned pain patients.

The truth:

I can name the harm-reduction workers who actively include abandoned pain patients in their work on one hand.

One hand.

I am deeply grateful for every one of them.

But when there are tens or hundreds of thousands of harm-reduction workers nationwide, that silence is not accidental.

We fought for harm reduction.

You have the workforce.
You have the funding.
You have the platforms.
You have the access.

You could fight for abandoned pain patients.

You choose not to.

And every single day, I receive messages like this one that came in today:

“My partner was stable on opioids for years. Her doctor of 15 years closed abruptly. No one will help her. She is in constant pain, vomiting, going unconscious, and has had seizures from withdrawal. She is bedbound. I don’t think she will last much longer. What can I do?”

Yes, I’m angry. Anyone who reads the hundreds of messages we receive every day like this one would be angry. Anger is the appropriate response to this level of suffering.

This is what your silence looks like.

So don’t tell pain patients we’re “in this together.”

Show us.

Until then, stop asking the people with no funding, no workforce, and no safety net to carry the moral burden for a system that refuses to carry ours.

To pain patients reading this: We see you.

We are here for you. We will never stop fighting. We will keep collecting your stories, documenting what is happening, and fighting for change. Your suffering will not be erased, minimized, or reframed to make others more comfortable.

You are not invisible here.
And you are not alone.

Please support The Doctor Patient Forum 

Movie: The Voices (2014) Caution: Spoiler Alert

 

The Voices

Came out; 2014

Time; 1 hours 43 Minutes

Watched: Amazon

Rated: R for bloody violence, and for language, including sexual references

IMDB Rating; 6.3/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 74%

Popcorn Meter 58%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Ryan Reynolds as Jerry

Gemma Arterton as Fiona

Anna Kendrick as Lisa

Jacki Weaver as Dr. Warren

Ella Smith as Allison

Story Line;

Jerry (Ryan Reynolds) is that chipper guy clocking the 9-to-5 at a bathtub factory, with the offbeat charm of anyone who could use a few friends. With help from his court-appointed psychiatrist, he pursues his office crush (Gemma Arterton), but their relationship takes a sudden murderous turn after she stands him up for a date. Guided by his evil talking cat and benevolent talking dog, Jerry must decide whether to keep striving for normalcy or indulge in the sinister.

Thoughts:

You ever find a movie by accident and realize it's old and you had never heard of it? That's how this one was, going through trying to find a movie and we came across this preview. We like Ryan Reynolds so we thought, why not?

This starts off strong and gets weird. It's definitely not what we expected, it was decent it just got dark.

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

Jerry works at Milton, shipping and delivery department. He lives on his own above MELLOW, a rusty disused bowling alley. He has conversations with his dog Bosco and his cat Mr. Whiskers. One day, his manager compliments his work and chooses him to help organise an employee picnic and a conga line as Fiona suggested in a the meeting. During the preparations, the whole team is in a restaurant and he asks the English Fiona on a date. He invites her to the best spectacle in the world and she doesn't know how to decline. His therapist asks Jerry about his prescription taking.

Friday night, Jerry watches a Chinese Elvis and a resurrected Bruce Lee while Fiona and the co-workers girls karaoke. On his side he leaves an unlimited Shi-Shan buffet and cross Fiona unable to get home. Jerry stops and gives her a ride. Jerry is in Heaven, everything is bright and Fiona is an Angel. Suddenly in the forest the car crashes into a deer. Jerry's hallucinations show the deer crying out in pain and begging Jerry to kill it, and so he slits its throat. Fiona, terrified, runs off into the woods. Jerry pursues her and trying to reassure her, he makes a lethal gesture. Apologising for hurting her, he ends her pain by stabbing her again and again. Sorry. Sorry.

Upon returning home, Bosco tells him to go the police and confess, and that he is a good man who just made a mistake. However, Mr. Whiskers says there is no shame in killing, but insists Jerry needs to dispose of the body. Jerry goes back to the wood and rolls the immaculate Cinderella body into a carpet. The sheriff asks him about his car crash. At his appointment with his shrink, Jerry confesses that he doesn't take his meds at all. Back home, he dismembers Fiona and places her meat in Tupperware boxes, and her decapitated head in the fridge. After his work Jerry takes his pills, and has nightmares of his abusive past. When he wakes up during the night, his hallucinations have ended; his pets no longer speak to him, and Fiona's head is cold and rotten. He throws away the pills in terror, and the next morning, Fiona smells like a baby-shampoo again. After breakfast, Fiona asks for a friendly severed head to share her days, but Jerry insists that he can't. Butterfly and sparklers are back in Jerrys life. He didn't want to be a slave to drugs but he's still between Rosco and Whiskers.

At the end of the next day at five, it's time to invite Lisa, a colleague of Fiona's from accounting, for a drink. He develops feelings for her and takes her to his abandoned childhood home, where it is revealed his German mother had confessed to her insanity and was about to be taken away by the authorities when he was a child. When they arrived, she tried to slit her throat, and begged Jerry to finish the job to end her suffering. Jerry sobs in front of Lisa, who comforts him. They go back to her house and spend the night together. He's in a dream. Lisa is on a cloud. When Jerry returns home, he still feels pressured into killing someone else by Fiona and Mr. Whiskers, and seems unsure of what to do next. Lisa interrupts the sinister meeting. She finds out Jerry's address through Milton's files and brings some cakes to his house. Inadvertently Jerry locks himself out. While he tries to get back in through the skylight, Lisa succeeds in forcing the door open. She sees Jerry's place in real dimension and wanders in and discovers the remnants of the bodies and Fiona's head on the living room table. Lisa says they can forget it and go back to normal. When she tries to leave, Jerry throws her aside and accidentally breaks her neck. Fiona now has a fridgemate. Other co-workers from Milton begin to wonder about Fiona and Lisa. When their colleague Alison goes to MELLOW, Jerry immediately kills and dismembers her. A new companion in the fridge and the voices add in the apartment.

Jerry looks very bad. He falls apart in front of his counsellor Dr. Warren and confesses his killings but she tries to make a call. He takes her hostage into the countryside and forces her to help him. She calms him down and shows understanding, which makes him feel better. Ten years of therapy in ten seconds. Meanwhile, John and another colleague finds Alison's car behind Jerry's house. They break into it, they retreat immediately and call the police. When Jerry returns home, holding Dr Warren, cops surround his house and prepare to move in. Jerry flees down into the basement, breaking a pipe. Dr. Warren is taken to hospital. The police are knocked back when the pipe Jerry broke causes a gas leak, which leads to a huge explosion. Down in the bowling alley, Jerry collapses and dies from smoke inhalation.After a long corridor, in a white void, Bosco and Mr. Whiskers says Goodbye to each other. Jerry meets his parents, then appears with Fiona, Lisa, and Alison, and Jesus, and they all dance together. Sing the Happy song. Sing the Happy song. Come on clap your hands. Sing the Happy song.

Chronic Pain Thoughts: Letter to Senator Tammy Baldwin

 Dear Reader,

I wrote to Tammy Baldwin regarding not being able to access Pain Medications, especially in a hospital setting. As my MIL laying in a Critical Care ICU at one our biggest hospitals, she was given IV Tylenol and Gabapentin. I also included chronic pain patients being experimented on with medications other than actual safe and effective pain medication.

She is out of touch. I hope that one day she has to find out what it's like to live every single day in pain and not get anything that helps. To find out what it's like to be experimented on with injections, PT and medications being prescribed off label.

I'm going to pull out sections and talk about it while leaving the original email below

1: The pharmaceutical industry pushed their opioid prescription drugs to treat pain management, and many providers have relied excessively on prescribing prescription drugs without exploring alternative treatment options that are less likely to lead to addiction ~ This is False information. The addiction rates have stayed the same even with a 75% decrease in prescription medications. Did people go to street drugs after being prescribed an opoiod? Yes, but when you are cut off something that works and you're desperate, what else do you do. Instead of looking at what actually happened, the “harm reduction” caused more harm

2: The 2016 CDC Guidelines are quoted, with only the updates from 2018 for Medicare/Medicaid. What about those of us that have private insurance through our employers?

3: While I believe that our country has excessively prescribed prescription drugs, please know that I understand your concerns and I will continue to work to ensure that we create a system that strikes the right balance by prescribing prescription drugs when they are truly needed and avoiding them when alternative treatment methods are available. ~ What? I hope one day you have to experience what the alternative treatment methods are. Injections, anti-depressants and medications with terrible side effects (like Dementia)

4: Lastly, I'd like to include contact information for the Kenosha County Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) ~ I used a letter head, which included my address to show that I'm in Green Bay, yet she gave me the Kenosha County information, you think if I called the number provided they would help me? Also, I'm not disabled or in the age range to be considered “Aging”.

Original Response:

Thank you for contacting me about access to pain treatment. I appreciate hearing your perspective on this important issue. Pain affects individuals of all ages and is the most common reason Americans access the health care system. Chronic pain is often treated with prescription drugs, including controlled substances like opioids. Pain and pain care is a complex issue, and each and every patients situation is different and unique. I agree that opioids can be used safely and appropriately. However, it is critical to move away from the one-size-fits-all approach of relying solely on prescription painkillers to treat patients and to advance more effective pain therapies. The pharmaceutical industry pushed their opioid prescription drugs to treat pain management and many providers have relied excessively on prescribing prescription drugs without exploring alternative treatment options that are less likely to lead to addiction.

I appreciate knowing of your concerns that efforts to combat prescription drug abuse could reduce patient access to needed medications. In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, which provide non-binding recommendations and information on how to safely use and prescribe opioids. These voluntary guidelines are available for use by clinicians who prescribe opioids for chronic pain and are intended to help clinicians deliver the safest and highest quality care. In 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new rules for the 2019 Medicare Part D prescription drug program, which would establish some limits on high doses of opioid pain medication and a 7-day supply limit for opioid prescriptions related to acute pain. Several states and some insurance companies have also sought to reduce the number or dosage of certain pain medications.

I recognize how important it is to empower doctors with the tools and resources they need to take a comprehensive approach to pain management to ensure that our families receive the high-quality care they deserve. While I believe that our country has excessively prescribed prescription drugs, please know that I understand your concerns and I will continue to work to ensure that we create a system that strikes the right balance by prescribing prescription drugs when they are truly needed and avoiding them when alternative treatment methods are available.

I also believe that we must continue to support research on our understanding of pain and the development of safer, more effective treatments. I helped ensure that efforts to strengthen research on chronic pain were included in the Comprehensive Addition and Recovery Act (P. L. 114-198) and on October 3, 2018, I was proud to join my Senate colleagues in passing bipartisan opioid crisis response legislation that was then signed into law (P.L. 115-271). This will help improve pain care therapies, and advance research on the causes, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and management of pain. It also directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide technical assistance to hospitals on alternatives to opioids for pain management.

Furthermore, we need to make sure insurance companies are providing affordable coverage for pain treatments that meet patients needs. I have called on top insurance companies to ask that they review policies that could unintentionally be hindering access to certain medications, and ensure that patients can access less addictive or non-addictive pain treatments, non-pharmacological treatments like physical therapy, and medication-assisted therapy.

Lastly, I'd like to include contact information for the Kenosha County Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC), which may be reached via telephone, at 262-605-6646, or online, at: https://www.kenoshacounty.org/155/Aging-Disability-Resource-Center. The ADRC may be helpful to you in coordinating any programming, resources, or referrals that may be fitting and available to you.

Going forward, I will continue to support initiatives to improve and expand pain research and safe treatment, including increased access to alternative treatments. Rest assured that I will continue to support measures that provide all Americans with access to affordable, comprehensive health care that meets their needs.

Once again, thank you for contacting my office.  It is important for me to hear from the people of Wisconsin on the issues, thoughts and concerns that matter most to you. If I can be of further assistance, please visit my website at www.baldwin.senate.gov for information on how to contact my office.

Chronic Pain Thoughts: Doctor Patient Forum Repost

 Dear Reader,

This is a Doctor Patient Forum repost.

Caution: Prescribing: Drink Up ~ See article below

As someone who lives in Wisconsin, where every small town will have more bars than churches, alcohol is perfectly acceptable if you're over 21.

From Wine Mom's to Bloody Mary's on Sunday's, nobody bats an eye. Yet, Heaven forbid you need an opioid to get you through your day.

With 4 kids I've been to school functions where a mom says “Lord, after this I need a drink” and everybody laughs, yet if the disabled mom said “Lord, I need a pain pill after this” everybody would think she's an addict.

My own Mother-In-Law was denied actual pain medication for Cancer as she had a history of addiction. Instead, she was given Gabapentin, Cymbalta and Naltrexone. It wasn't until she was in palliative care that she was given stronger pain meds.

Please visit thedoctorpatienforum.com for more information

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You absolutely can't make this up. This landed in my inbox today from PharmedOut

They just sent out a fundraiser featuring a bottle of wine labeled “Cautious Prescribing.”

And honestly? That tracks.

Because using their definition of “cautious prescribing,” pain patients will absolutely need the wine, since to them, “cautious” usually means no prescribing. Cheers to abstinence-only medicine.

Alcohol? A fun metaphor.
Wine jokes? Adorable.
Opioids for legitimate pain patients? A moral panic.

For those newer here: PharmedOut, run by Adrienne Fugh-Berman, loves to position itself as a fearless watchdog of pharmaceutical influence, while somehow developing total amnesia when it comes to:

• Suboxone

• Buprenorphine exceptionalism

• Addiction-industry funding of CME

• Or any policy that actually harms pain patients

Funny how the watchdog never barks in that direction.

We’ve repeatedly documented how PharmedOut:

• Runs cover for addiction-industry narratives

• Functions as a serial expert-witness pipeline

• Was funded by funds from Attorney Generals from suing Pfizer

So yes, seeing “Cautious Prescribing” turned into a wine-label fundraising gimmick was genuinely laugh-out-loud absurd.

Because when pain patients point out this double standard, we’re told we’re emotional, biased, or dangerous, but when it’s packaged with a corkscrew, it’s “public health humor.”

The timing is perfect, though.
We directly address PharmedOut, and its role in this ecosystem, in our upcoming exclusive Patreon video, dropping December 31.

If you’ve ever felt gaslit by “cautious prescribing” rhetoric like this, you’re going to want to watch.

We see you.
We document everything.
And we don’t let this nonsense slide.

Book: North Fall Series (Karin Slaughter) Caution Spoiler Alert

 

We Are All Guilty Here

North Falls Series

Author: Karin Slaughter

Book 1

Synopsis.

Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think.

Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites.

For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home.

But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did.

Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?

Thoughts.

This was really good! I didn't expect the outcome.

It took me longer than normal to read this book as I had a ton of personal stuff going on but when I did get a chance to read it I didn't want to put it down!