A side effect is legitimate non-addicted pain patients live in fear because they can’t get refills. Signed, a chronic pain sufferer’s husband.
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Agh such a dangerous precedent
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That’s chilling.
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No bueno no bueno
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A dear friend died of an opioid overdose in 2009. I would very much like to know if her doctor was implicated for overprescription.
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Anyone who cares a lot about the complexity of this issue should read
@RachelAviv ’s sad and moving@NewYorker piece on this from a few years agohttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/05/prescription-for-disaster …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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My own summary from family w chronic pain and reading is: (1) opioids and painkillers are heavily overprescribed for tough cases (2) because they help short term even tho they are highly addictive and can *cause* pain long term ...
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(3) yet drug companies are incentivized to push them to doctors (4) who are usu well meaning but forced to make horrible choice of helping or abandoning patients (5) while enforcement randomly metes out extreme punishment on doctors A fix can’t only focus on one of these.
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