Prison as a Strategy
The theory is that the more users we put in jail or prison, the fewer left out on the street. So why hasn’t that substantially reduced arrest and overdose statistics?
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Functioning on Heroin?
They qualify for the diagnosis, but have not yet experienced the sort of problems that are usually required to motivate a serious attempt to abandon drug use.
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Selling Pills
Maybe you’ll even suggest the medication. And the marketing team wants you to leave the doctor’s office with a prescription for that med.
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The Empire Strikes Back
I’ve been expecting a public relations counterattack on behalf of, and probably funded by, the pharmaceutical industry.
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The Pain Patient Population
Based on the vast number of prescriptions for opioid medications written by US practitioners over the past few decades, we’ve become the clear leaders in opioid prescribing.
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