[jnovek]

“Opioids can't be banned until we can replace them with something equally generally effective.”

If only doctors took this advice! When the CDC made its first recommendation against using opioids there was a chilling effect and thousands of chronic pain patients who desperately in need of opioids to function were cut off. There were suicides.

It wasn’t until 2022 that the CDC loosened its recommendations and, in my experience, only a few doctors have caught up.