Not to side track this thread. There was a ‘60 Minutes’ report on this last Sunday. In 2010, one pharmaceutical company shipped enough opioids to Florida alone that every resident would receive 25 pills. One physician who ran pain clinics was issuing prescriptions everyday to the same people for 100s of pills. Who could take 1000 pills in a month? Certainly not a pregnant woman, yet she had a script. The DEA calls it diversion where folks are reselling these meds.
Look at Fentanyl abuse and imports from China.
So in my opinion there is a crisis, but, those with chronic pain are forced to justify the need for these meds.
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