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Pain Patients Were Right: The “It’s All in Your Head” Narrative Is Falling Apart

June 02, 2026

This episode was originally released as an exclusive Patreon video, but in the current climate, we believe it is too important to keep behind a paywall.Pain patients are increasingly being told their pain is “centralized,” “neuroplastic,” “psychological,” or simply “in the brain.” But what does that actually mean? And if a clinician claims someone’s physical pain is psychological, what diagnostic criteria are they using?In this conversation, Bev and Brandy speak with Asaf Weisman, a physiothe...

How Litigation Wins Become Pt Losses - When Grief Becomes a Weapon and Patients Become Collateral

February 21, 2026

After years of hearing the same opioid presentation from Andrew Kolodny, something changed — kratom suddenly became the “next crisis.”That wasn’t random.In this video, I break down:• How mass-tort litigation narratives are built• How experts, media, and parent groups align• How settlement money shapes policy messaging• Why kratom is being framed like opioids were• And who gets harmed when the machine movesWe’ve seen this before.First tobacco.Then prescription opioids.Then JUUL.Now cannabis an...

ACEs & the Opioid Risk Tool Explained | How Trauma History Is Used to Flag Patients and Deny Pain Care

February 01, 2026

This episode breaks down ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT) — what these tools were actually designed for, and how they’re often misapplied in pain care to flag patients as “high risk” and deny treatment.We walk through:• what ACEs really measure• how the Opioid Risk Tool was created• where the sexual trauma question came from• why these tools were never meant to be used to deny care• and how trauma history screening is being used against pain patients in prac...