Opiods have been around forever; pardon my ignorance, but what is different now that makes so many more people get hooked on them?
Presumably people felt the same levels of pain in the past as they do now, given the same maladies. Is the situation:
A) More surgeries with extremely painful and long recovery periods are happening, where these meds are truly necessary
B) Doctors are prescribing opiods more freely for lower levels of pain than in the past
C) People are faking pain more often
D) People who really do need pain meds are staying on them longer than they should
B) seems to be the accusation that I usually see, but have doctors really gotten worse and less careful over time? To an extent that explains the whole crisis?
My guess is that D) is the real cause, for may different reasons.
Presumably people felt the same levels of pain in the past as they do now, given the same maladies. Is the situation:
A) More surgeries with extremely painful and long recovery periods are happening, where these meds are truly necessary
B) Doctors are prescribing opiods more freely for lower levels of pain than in the past
C) People are faking pain more often
D) People who really do need pain meds are staying on them longer than they should
B) seems to be the accusation that I usually see, but have doctors really gotten worse and less careful over time? To an extent that explains the whole crisis?
My guess is that D) is the real cause, for may different reasons.