So, true.. I wrote my Senator warning of all the unintended consequesnces of shuting everyone off for the high profile problems of some. I listed all the issues that would happen..i.e street drugs, alcohol abuse, suicide... I received a canned answer that was meant to justify what they had do to themselves. I knew then that my condition would never return me to my former health. and was in pain all the time.. I did what had killed others, I survived it.. and gradually over the years I used a self designed weight training and martial arts program to rehab without the help of the so called experts. Many of those that haven't and are out in the could now suffer from another medical and political failure. Over 100 thousand people have died in the last year due to fentanyl.. fentenyl that those same politicians refuse to stop from coming over an open border...It is absolutely disgraceful... It is not a ew phenomenum however it is one that is on steroids now... and is so unnecessary. Doctors spend years becoming doctors... They have the expertise to know who needs opiate and whose playing them... They also know thatr very often they don't have to take the patients word. In my case. there were eventually over a dozen MRI's of various kinds in the record.. The proof of my particular condition was right in front of them and they knew it. But because of politics putting pressure on the medical system.. they opted to do the wrong thing and scoop all patients up in the same basket... assumed liar even if the film proves otherwise.. I no longer use painkillers either, and haven't for 9 years... but , I ccould have very easily became a casuality because of blanket decisions and I know people who were.