re: #260 Vicious Piebola

Consumer Reports says There Is No Such Thing As Chronic Pain, You’re All Just A Bunch Of Junkies

Well Consumer Reports said it and they’re all a bunch of doctors and shit (no they’re not). I bet none of them are or have grandmothers with arthritis.

A bit of oversimplification to what they are saying in the article. I think that the thrust of this article was homing on the fact that opioid prescriptions have literally exploded during the last decade, and are among the most over-prescribed or misprescribed medications in recent history. Oxycodone (OxyContin) prescriptions went up somewhere around the order of 400% over a six-year period starting around 2003 when Perdue Pharmaceuticals started a major marketing campaign which essentially represented the drug as non-addictive.
The level of overprescription that physicians have given it reminds me of Quaaludes in the 1970s and Valium in the 1980s as the prescription drugs of choice for abuse. Problem is, opioids are FAR more dangerous as death by overdose (either accidental or deliberate) is a very real issue.