[khawkins]

As someone currently dealing with chronic pain, suits like this are highly aggravating. It's just another front of the failed drug war.

People who need pain relief get screwed as doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies treat every single patient like they're a drug addict waiting to happen. The real drug addicts will continue to get their pills, while the upstanding members of society writhe in pain.

[bob33212]

I see comments like this on every single opioid news thread.

I'm sure that you are being honest about feeling that you need to take opioids every day, but I'm sure that you understand the addictive nature of the pills and why we should avoid making more people addicted.

I have had a total of two opioid pills in my life and I could feel exactly how it could take over.

[awakeasleep]

The attitude towards prohibition that your parent comment described is exactly what set the stage for the recent opioid epidemic.

We were just coming out of another era where opioids were restricted to the inhumane point where people with serious problems were left in debilitating pain - to the point where Purdue's lies were accepted because doctors felt genuine sympathy towards the suffering they saw.

There is a happy middle ground. There are people who benefit from opioid medications.

It was bad moral choices by this generation's pharmaceutical companies that caused this outbreak. That is where the fault lies.