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by skellera 725 days ago
Even the chronic pain patients should not have had the amounts prescribed to them that they were. Doctors were incentivized to give as much as possible. Creating addicts in people who may otherwise would not have been.

I personally knew people getting more than a cancer patient should’ve been given for day to day chronic pain.

I’m sorry if you were personally affected by regulation but that doesn’t mean they didn’t cause the crisis.