Most opioid problems in the US start at the primary care or general physician level. Not specialists for the most part. Pain patients are then dropped with no social support and turn to the streets. Substance abuse is not discriminatory. It happens to anyone of any demographic.
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Take prescription rights away from anyone not fully trained in proper use of opioids would be a good start. Never abandon an existing patient. Restrict all opiates to Surgical use, intractable pain syndromes, end of life. Prohibit direct to consumer marketing of drugs in USA now.

Oct 13, 2022 · 4:15 AM UTC
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