BLUF found, not in the story but in the first comment as follows:[STAT] The science is overwhelming, for nearly 40 years now, that physicians should not treat with opiates for more than a few weeks, maybe a month, then refer to an Integrated Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic. This isn’t done for multiple reasons. So people like you end up chronically in pain and then should receive opiates because there are no other options left.
The problem remains political with patients screaming for more narcotics, physicians unconscionably hanging onto patients, government trying to make everyone happy, and science saying that all of you are wrong and are driving the current iatrogenic addiction epidemics.
Government and 'politics' have certainly succeeded in making Big Pharma 'happy.' Meanwhile, the necessary components of the urban drug trade flourish. Urban peace depends upon the feeding as well as the mental and physical sedation of the Democratic voter.