I agree the defacto prohibition has gone way too far. The vast majority of opioid users have no issues. The secret is simple, have physicians who are knowledgeable monitor their patients.
As for searching every piece of mail, not affordable, and probably impossible until there is a way to "sniff" through the packaging.
The latest decree from the WH is $91 Million for Street Junkies, not a dime for Intractable Pain Patients. If you use that phrase, it makes it a DISEASE that has to be treated with opioids. If you call it Chronic, it is not a disease, it is short term as in a broken arm pain and no Opioid med is needed.
Dentist and I talked prior to him taking out 6 teeth Monday, most of his fellow dentist are refusing pain meds, even for 3 days. He is NOT 1 of them. He is a Ret. Army Reserve COL. who had tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and does volunteer work in third world countries. Top 10 dentist in Memphis.
TN just shut down another pain clinic ‘fraud’, that leaves 65 for the entire state.