Is it really just because of the fentanyl situation? I know there is a huge disagreement with how the strict rules for prescribing opioids are so tight even for chronic pain patients like myself who can’t participate in life without em struggle to find a provider who is willing to prescribe us them.

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    Because it’s low hanging fruit. Politicians can be “tough” on chronic pain patients and frame it as furthering the battle against the “opioid epidemic” without having to address the actual kraken in the bathtub, which is shady, Chinese bootleg fentanyl flooding the US through our leaky International mail system. The opioid crisis and epidemic of overdoses isn’t fueled by Grandma selling off her “extra” 5mg percosets, its coming from illegally smuggled fentanyl being sold illegally on the streets. Chronic pain patients are just a convenient sock puppet for the constant campaign mode our politicians are in, and they don’t care who they hurt to get elected or stay in power. Imho.

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      1 year ago

      I agree with everything you said here, but just came by to say, “Kraken in the bathtub” is one of my favorite new idioms.