ADVOCACY TOOLS

This video is about the "unholy alliance" between Vertex Pharmaceuticals, US Pain Foundation and lawmakers; how they work together within the public, private - partnerships to create an illusion for the public in an effort to gain support. It is reminiscent of a theatre act. In this video, I will show what happened behind the scenes, outside the public purview, examining all the strings that were pulled years before resulting in the changes in the healthcare system we are seeing today. Music: Inspiring Classical Viola Solo - By: Orchestralis Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky - YouTube Audio Library Documents: Senate HELP Committee @/pkg/CHRG-116shrg41390/pdf/CHRG-116shrg41390.pdf

Corporations and advocacy organizations work together to create a profitable partnership, what happens to the patient? This video is minimally narrated and mostly a visual experience accompanied by Johann Strauss's beautiful Blue Danube Waltz which was the inspiration for this content. The waltz symbolizing the "dance" that all these entities use to create the illusion of "healthcare" that should be working to the patient's benefit, but does it really? Advocacy organizations, venture capital, lawmakers, public policy decisions, are only a few of the entities involved in the public, private-partnerships that are dictating our care. This is the follow up video to "You Are the Product". We describe the public, private-partnership that is exists within our healthcare system. The non profits that were in place to "advocate" for us were participating in implementing the very policies and practices that have now shown to be detrimental to our community. We are taking a stand. We were misrepresented and never had a "seat" at the table. It is time to stand up.

Join Lauren and Shasta as we uncover what was really behind the recent gaslighting session hosted by US Pain Foundation. We are tired of the euphemisms and happy-talk that surrounds pain care and the tactics being used to get patients to blindly comply with helping these companies profit as they lead you down the biopsychosocial road to nowhere under the guise that they are in Washington DC "fighting for your rights" to access to the treatment that you need. We need to declare our independence from groups like US Pain Foundation and American Chronic Pain Association who are not representing us. Music Credits: Sneaky Feet Music: Purple Planet Music Bad Clown Hitchcock Suspense Cash Money Trap Doomed Romance Music: Purple Planet Music

Here we start our journey into exploring the National Pain Strategy and the CDC Guidelines. Since the release of Violation of A Nation in April 2019, we continued our search for information and found more information that supported our report. Come join us as we unveil the story of how we found out that the CDC Guidelines were a part of the National Pain Strategy. Also, we discuss the opposition and other "advocates" in the community that have tried to disrupt our work. This is part one of a three part series. Thank you for joining us! You can find documentation of this work on our twitter account and on our website at www.ciaag.net Below is the link to the document that we wrote about the NIH meeting. http://9thx.mjt.lu/nl2/9thx/5qy19.html?hl=en Below is the link to the NIH document; the Executive Summary from the meeting. https://prevention.nih.gov/sites/default/files/documents/programs/p2p/ODPPainPanelStatementFinal_10-02-14.pdf Below is the link to the meeting where the screenshots in the video are taken from. https://www.iprcc.nih.gov/sites/default/files/NPS_ImplementationWebinarSummary_508C.pdf Music Credits: Emanuele Dentoni "Leviathan" https://www.audioblocks.com/stock-audio/leviathan-r_qzo4w7ik6pk6ro8.html Epiphany https://www.purple-planet.com/ Immuration https://www.purple-planet.com/

Here it is! This is the preview to the series where Lauren and Shasta now get to tell the long awaited story about how and why we as chronic pain patients have lost access to our medications. This is a preview/sneak peek into what our upcoming series will show you. Not only do we tell you about the National Pain Strategy, we will share with you our journey about what happened to us along the way as we tried to tell our story. From the opposition to other people in the community that tried to stop us; you will learn what we learned as we traveled down this path. Buckle up and take a seat.....here is a preview into what is coming up in our upcoming series, The Advocates, the Opposition and the National Pain Strategy. Music Credit: Cinematic Horror Trailer Item URL: https://elements.envato.com/cinematic-horror-trailer-E4ZMHN5 Item ID: E4ZMHN5 Author Username: Wolf_Music

Here is the long awaited story of what happened when CIAAG went to the 2019 Rx Heroin Summit in Atlanta Georgia. Come join us as we tell the story about what happened when we were there. It has been a year since this happened and over the course of time, we have learned a few things in regards to why this may have happened to us and why. Some things are never what they seem and this story is a good example of that. Music Credits: Action Strike Purple Planet Music https://www.purple-planet.com/ Oppressive Gloom Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4174-oppressive-gloom Fig Leaf Rag Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3750-fig-leaf-rag Red Mist Purple Planet Music https://www.purple-planet.com/ America the Beautiful Unknown Composer https://www.audioblocks.com/member/downloads