The Doctor Patient Forum

The Doctor Patient Forum is a national advocacy organization defending pain patients and the prescribers who treat them. We expose the truth about opioid policy, forced tapers, and patient abandonment. We expose the opioid elimination movement, and those at the center of it. Join Bev Schechtman and Claudia Merandi as we break down FDA moves, prescription surveillance systems like NarxCare, and the politics of addiction medicine. Because pain relief shouldn’t be a crime.

The Doctor Patient Forum is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 63 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Doctor Patient Forum, a business show with 63 episodes published.

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  Episode #62

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

  Jun 2, 20261h 24mS0

  <p>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.</p><p>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?</p><p>In this conversation, Bev and Brandy speak with Asaf Weisman, a physiotherapist, researcher, PhD candidate, and lab manager at the Tel Aviv University Spinal Research Lab, about nociception, chronic pain, imaging, imm...

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  Episode #61

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

  Feb 21, 20261h 46mS0

  <p>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 and kratom.When lawsuits start shaping medicine, patients become collateral damage.Pain patients were erased the first time.Will it happen again?At The Doctor Patien...

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  Episode #60

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

  Feb 1, 202634 minS0

  <p>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.</p><p>We walk through:<br>• what ACEs really measure<br>• how the Opioid Risk Tool was created<br>• where the sexual trauma question came from<br>• why these tools were never meant to be used to deny care<br>• and how trauma history screening is being used against pain patients in practice</p><p>The misapplication of these tools is what pushed me...

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  Episode #59

  The Dismantling of Pain Care by Addiction Medicine, And the Patients Sacrificed. A Decade of Harm.

  Jan 10, 202630 minS0

  <p>This episode documents how pain care in the United States was dismantled, not accidentally, but through deliberate policy choices that elevated addiction medicine over pain treatment and left millions of patients behind.</p><p>Bev Schechtman, Vice President of The Doctor Patient Forum (DPF), walks through the history of opioid policy, the rise of addiction medicine’s influence over pain care, and the real-world consequences for patients and doctors. This includes how clinical judgment has been replaced by fear, risk profiling, and enforcement-driven medicine.</p><p>The discussion covers:</p><p>How the opioid crisis narrative reshaped pain care</p>...

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  Episode #58

  Why Pain Patients Became the Villains of the Opioid Crisis - Episode 58

  Sep 18, 20251h 34mS0

  <p>Why are pain patients treated like criminals, while people on Suboxone are celebrated as brave survivors?This isn’t just stigma, it’s a system. One that quietly rewrote the rules of who deserves compassion... and who gets discarded.In this video, we introduce a lens called Critical Drug Theory, based on Critical Theory, which helps explain how power, identity, and moral narratives shape public policy. It’s a way to understand why people with addiction are often seen as victims in need of care, while stable pain patients are labeled as privileged or problematic, even when both need medica...

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