Any Volunteers to Help Approve Members for Opiate Therapy Group?

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Hello Mods!

Firstly, it seems that everyone is doing an outstanding job. I've watched this site go from membership of a bit over 300, to helping thousands world-wide.

I still do what I can, when I can, but I am no longer a stay-at-home Mom, as I was when I began this group. When I am not working, I am looking for work, or networking in hopes of finding work, presently, as well as enjoying the final year of my eldest daughter living at home.

Living with TN has given so much to me, and I will be able to return to full time active Moderation, instead of helping out the best I can, when I can, when things calm down a bit, hopefully.

While catching up with my emails today, I noted that several were from members asking to be approved to join the Opiate Therapy group.

My standard for this has been, that if I see that the proposed member list opioid based types of meds in their therapy regimine, past or present, and seem on the up and up, I approve them for membership. If there is any question, I shoot them an email to explain why the group is by acceptance only, due to the use of opioid based medications becoming ever-increasingly controversial for non-terminal chronic pain, and that the feature is in place for their protection, as well, should they become a member. If I get a solid, sensible response, I approve.

Example - as of now, I have a pending member, however, I do not see that she has listed having experience with having used any opioid medication for pain control on her Home Page. Sometimes, this is a private matter that one does not want to broadcast on their page due to the unfortunate stigma.

I do not want to make any members feel unwelcome, so I am kindly asking if anyone would be willing to help me monitor the pending requests coming in, as such.

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend. I look forward to getting to know you great, new Mods, and again, hats off and great job, all! :-)

Thank you in advance for your replies.

Stef

P.S. Standard apology for any type-o's. I try to catch them, but I type faster than I talk. They happen!

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Hi Stef, happy to help out, but would need a list or something, my knowledge in this area is pretty limited. If you want to email me any details.

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Hi, Stef. I do get notifications of pending new members in this group. I'll try to look in on at least some of them.

Regards, Red

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Thank you for keeping a heads-up for these, Red!

I do not believe I receive notifications when there are pending members to that group.

Much appreciated, Smiley! If you would help out by checking, and screening pending members, when you have a chance, that would be great. You will need to send a request to join the group. Once you are do, I will need to go in and approve your membership, and change your member setting to "Group Admin". Then, you should be able to see a list of pending requests to join by selecting "Options in the upper right corner, then "Manage Group Members" from the drop-down box. I will be checking for your request to join.

I really appreciate having back-ups. Some of our original Group Admins have either not been regular visitors lately, or have, perhaps, been very busy, I suppose.

Thanks you both very much for your help!

Sincerely,

Stef

P.S. Obligatory typ-o disclaimer! :-)

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Note for smiley: Although my background on opioids is probably not as deep as Stef's, I do have a broad familiarity with issues, and I can usually bone up pretty quickly on specifics when needed. If you run into something where you would like some backup, feel free to friend me and send me a private note through site email.

Regards, Red

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Okay I know I’m late on this. But I can help out on this as well. I’m already a member to this group as well. Stef I hope everything is going well for ya.

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Hi! I see that Smiley has offered to go through people wanting to join the Opiates Group- if any further assistance is needed, please let me know. I have been on every opiate and narcotic out there, and have done extensive reading on each. I can usually direct people to helpful resources if I do not have the information they need. If you need to speak to someone who knows each of the opiates very well, unfortunately, due to a large number of physicians and their tendency to throw meds at me rather than look for a solution to my GN, then I am your gal. I'm scheduled for my next surgery Oct.1- until then I am home, and have free time most days. Let me know how I can help. Stef- good luck with working and looking for more work!

Be well friends,

RueAnn