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In reply to the discussion: Heroin deaths double after painkiller crackdown [View all]Aristus
(66,645 posts)is pretty low.
Even right here on DU. In the past, I have posted about my reluctance to prescribe narcotics for patients in chronic pain (my medical organization's policy against casual prescribing of opiates notwithstanding), and instead detail my treatment plans regarding more efficacious treatments like TCA's and SSRI's, physical therapy, orthopedic treatments, etc.
I was torn up on side and down the other by DU-ers reportedly suffering from chronic pain. They called me every name in the book, a lot that aren't, incompetent, indifferent to suffering, "not a real doctor" (which is true; I'm a real Physician Assistant), and wished comparable levels of suffering on me because I don't hand narcotics out like candy.
It's a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation.