[eyeamok]

addiction is not a predictable outcome of prescribing and addiction in medical patients is rare

Rare? my doctors told me right up front in 1978 that I was going to become addicted to opiates, but I would be in the Hospital for 3 weeks after surgery to go through a managed withdrawl.

Obviously the First Step to stopping this Crisis is to make it a FELONY to Prescribe, offer to Prescribe, or administer ANY OPIATE to ANY Public Employee, Public Servant or Officer of the Court.

[grumpygresh]

“make it a FELONY to Prescribe, offer to Prescribe, or administer ANY OPIATE to ANY Public Employee, Public Servant or Officer of the Court.”

I think at this time we have the de facto law here. I don’t know any pain management provider that would even think of helping any of those creatures you have listed above.

But, these folks should also experience the Medicare for all or any other draconian law foisted on the public.

Read abut Stalin’s death. Doctors just stayed away.

[phs3]

Dependance and addiction are 2 different things...