| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
USA. Opioid crackdown forces pain patients to taper off drugs they say they need
USA. Opioid crackdown forces pain patients to taper off drugs they say they need
(...) When researchers surveyed 194 primary care clinics in Michigan in 2018, they found that 79 of them would not accept new patients taking opioids, according to a study published last month in JAMA Network Open.
“We’ve entered a new era of opiophobia,” said Sally Satel, a psychiatrist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who is critical of the way some chronic pain patients are being treated. Some “have the kind of pain that’s unbearable. Every day of your life. Unbearable. And those are the people who are suffering. And their doctors are terrified.” (Washington Post, 10.09.2019)