One short letter's huge impact on the opioid epidemic

[Kittycow]

4. Well in my case. ..

The cause of my severe debilitating chronic pain is easily seen on MRIs of my spine but I get your point about how the pain cause could be vague and also subjective. But people like me are getting lumped in with drug seekers.

I have to go to the pain management clinic once a month and am subject to random pee tests and pill counts. They also routinely cut my opioid dosage down to see what will happen to my pain level and I have to go through a month of true suffering before they restore it back. There's no surgical solution.

I'm also under the impression that there's a state wide data base that tracks my prescriptions but maybe I'm wrong about that. It seems that states with "loose" rules should tighten up their regulatory systems to cut down on doctor shopping and drug seeking then, but in a way that makes sense to not harm legit patients.

This is a serious concern on both sides of the fence, so to speak.