[Jim Noble]

If the trend among politicians and regulators in their "fighting heroin" crusade continues for a few more months, no one will be treated with morphine or morphine derivatives for pain.

I don't prescribe opioids very often (like twice a year), and I've decided to stop because the bureaucratic impositions are too much to deal with.

But if I were a surgeon, especially a bone and joint surgeon, or if I treated chronic pain (I don't), life would already have become completely unmanageable.

[Wolfie]

What I find amusing, if predictable, are the headlines about HEROIN! But when you read the article or watch the special it turns out the real problem is prescription opiods. But I guess that’s just how you roll when Big Pharma is a major advertiser.