>>4711692 (pb)
The crackdown on opioids is not what the fake news tries to make it look like. I have many patients who are chronically on opioids. They are not drug addicts, just people who have disabling and other chronic health issues and need pain medications. Those people still have access to those medications. They just have to follow new state and DEA rules to get them.
Most states no longer allow generalist or specialist docs to write prescriptions for large amounts of narcs or extended prescriptions. They have to refer the patients to a specialty pain clinic. I have worked in one of those, and even there people come with bullshit stories and try to manipulate you. They think you can't tell.
The rules are a good thing. It shouldn't be so easy to get those drugs. Docs used to hand them out like candy. Now we have myriads of people seriously fucked up and on suboxone. Its a two-edged sword.