Restricting access to prescription opioid painkillers could inadvertently harm patients who legitimately need them for chronic pain management. — Whalespan
Restricting access to prescription opioid painkillers could inadvertently harm patients who legitimately need them for chronic pain management.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“there are many — chronic pain patients who are very fearful and are you know I I certainly get emails from people talking about how they're they're just fearful that they're — that they're their supply — of this drug you know these drugs I'm not just talking about Oxycontin here but but prescription opioid painkillers broadly — that they count on in order to function in life — is is really jeopardized by these kind of changing currents in terms of the way in which — people perceive — these drugs”