{"id":84905,"date":"2023-04-14T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84905"},"modified":"2023-04-14T09:20:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:20:36","slug":"excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84905","title":{"rendered":"An Opportunity, If Helping People Is What You Seek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Seni. Kellty Morrison<br>From:  Mitch Berg:  Prole on a mission<br>Re:  Opportunity, if you&#8217;ve got the guts to take it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Morrison, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I left a message and an email with your office about this subject earlier this week.  I&#8217;ve heard nothing.  I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s just an oversight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway &#8211; let&#8217;s try to seek some common ground, shall we? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other day, you twote about your&#8230;er, I&#8217;m not sure whether to call it a &#8220;job&#8221;, &#8220;assignment&#8221; or what.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll let your tweet explain as far as we can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m excited to share that Senate Majority Leader  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariDziedzic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KariDziedzic<\/a> has appointed me to the Opioid Epidemic Response Advisory Council. I\u2019m looking forward to engaging in this important work as we continue to confront the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic in Minnesota. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XN5ASAuPCC\">pic.twitter.com\/XN5ASAuPCC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kelly Morrison (@Morrison4MN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morrison4MN\/status\/1645968872556703748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So here&#8217;s what I hope:  when you say &#8220;engage&#8221; you, as an M.D., mean &#8220;address some of the horrific unintended consequences of Minnesota&#8217;s current opioid policy, which involves non-medical bureaucrats almost literally bean-counting doctors&#8217; prescriptions for opioids to compare them to a more or less arbitrary standard that doesn&#8217;t account for patients&#8217; actual need for painkillers, which has left a staggering number of chronic pain patiens and cancer patients in life-altering, wretched constant pain, leading to an extremely disproportionate number of suicides and other serious long-term physical and mental health issues&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I <em>suspect<\/em> it means you will continue the feckless avoidance many of your fellow legislators have practiced, trying to avoid the misguided wrath of the Fentanyl Fatality Families mob &#8211; who deserve sympathy, but not complete obeisance at the expense of other people who need pain meds&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and can&#8217;t get them because bureaucrats can and do hold doctors licenses hostage <em>for prescribing, responsible, medically indicated quantities<\/em> that pain patients can easily absorb (there was a time I respected doctors enough to assume they knew things like &#8220;someone in horrific pain can absorb amounts of opioids that&#8217;d kill a healthy NFL lineman, becasue that&#8217;s how the body is built&#8221;, but after this past three years I assume nothing).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any chance you could break with the medical know-nothings of, to be fair, both parties, and do some good, here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go ahead.  Shock us all.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Seni. Kellty MorrisonFrom: Mitch Berg: Prole on a missionRe: Opportunity, if you&#8217;ve got the guts to take it. Senator Morrison, I left a message and an email with your office about this subject earlier this week. I&#8217;ve heard nothing. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s just an oversight. Anyway &#8211; let&#8217;s try to seek some common ground, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84919,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84905\/revisions\/84919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}