We need to start hammering our legislatures for them to get off the bogus notion that, by restricting legal prescriptions of opioids for pain relief, reduces the number of people OD'ing on the medication. In stead what is happening, just like during the Prohibition on alcoholic beverages, illegal distribution and consumption in an uncontrolled environment is making criminals, pharma pushing ineffective medication for treatments to reduce pain, and perhaps some politicians wealthy.

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