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Date: 9 Dec 2018 07:22 am (UTC)
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>>"Overzealous use of the CDC’s opioid prescribing guideline is harming pain patients"<<

Well duh. People don't like being treated as criminals. But also, people in pain don't have the energy to jump through hoops. If they can't get what they need from a doctor, they will get it from a less-socially-approved dealer instead. Naturally this leads to overdose deaths -- or for those who can't hook up, a spike in suicides.

On the bright side, states legalizing marijuana had a one-third drop in overdose deaths. I expected a drop, but I thought it'd be 10% or so, nowhere near that big. \o/
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