I haven’t read the article. However, I’ve been managing very severe chronic pain and acute chronic pain due to CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME, FIBROMYALGIA, CHIARI MALFORMATION and all of their related, debilitating symptoms which completely changed the trajectory of my life.
The continuing battles that legitimate chronic pain patients must continue to fight with their doctors and or along side of their doctors is unacceptable. We have more than enough research to clearly explain and determine where the overdose deaths are coming from that have been very loosely and unscientifically associated with “OPIOIDS!” The deaths are not due to authentic and legitimate chronic pain patients. They are overwhelmingly and directly due to the high abuse of “Street Drugs” containing poisonous FENTANYL!!!!
There are very little statistics that directly link overdose deaths to chronic pain patients who use their opioid medication in effectively or abuse it. This is a “wives tale” that continues to be told that is completely false and extremely misleading. The correct and accurate information is very easy to find and could easily be used to serve the patients and doctors more accurately and professionally.
There is a horrible and severely unfair bias against opioids that the patients and doctors continue to be mistreated by that cost and prevents patients from getting appropriate access to opioids to treat their pain and threatens doctors with the prosecution and the loss of their medical license.
It’s more ridiculous than blaming the consumption of pure drinking water as a leading cause of cancer!!!
It’s “BAD MEDICINE” and directly ignores “LEGITIMATE SCIENCE and ETHICAL RESEARCH!”