Claudia was on Recovery TV with John Tassoni, 8/19/25

This week, Claudia joined Recovery TV with host John Tassoni to talk about the crisis in pain care and what’s really happening behind the headlines.

In this interview, Claudia breaks down:

• Why the CDC’s flawed data fueled a huge increase in overdose deaths after the 2016 guideline.

• How doctors are being intimidated, prosecuted, and jailed for treating pain.

• Why patients, including the elderly, cancer patients, and people with sickle cell, are being forced onto the streets for relief.

• The dangerous push to substitute Suboxone for pain treatment and why that’s wrong.

• How corrupt academics and federal incentives created today’s broken system.

• What the Doctor Patient Forum is doing, from legislation to support groups to national advocacy, to push back and restore compassionate pain care.

👉 Watch the full episode here: 

As Claudia says in the interview: “Telling a patient that opioids don’t relieve pain, that’s a form of mental illness. Morphine relieves pain. It doesn’t cause pain.”

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