One short letter's huge impact on the opioid epidemic

[anneboleyn]

12. This isn't tobacco. Real people, with real diseases, are suffering hideously, and if these drugs

are ever outlawed because people want to punish abusers and/or companies (there are many other addictive drugs that we never hear about yet are widely prescribed -- see drugs like Lyrica -- blaming the companies for the behavior of every abuser seems very misguided to me) I can't even imagine what pain patients would do.

Many of them of course would choose to die when their lives are already a living hell fighting for the prescription they get each month as it is. I do not understand the indifference to pain patients in this opioid hysteria. You almost never hear about who actually takes these medications every month!!! It is a horrible fate, and yes in many states marijuana is illegal and a monthly pee test shows marijuana use and will get a pain patient booted out of a doctor's office in two seconds.