ALL LIES widely spread by the #Sacklercartel -The first myth he talked about was a statement that came out years ago that opioids cause addiction in less than 1% of pain patients. He states, “This really became the hallmark .... masslive.com/westfieldnews/…
More articles like this are needed which try to analyze why the American medical system bought into the falsehoods and misinformation about opioids, addiction & chronic pain. Another essential piece of the puzzle is medical academia which failed to do the research dispelling the pseudo-science of the opioid pharmaceutical and the pain management sectors, as well as failed to consider the well-known adverse history of opioids themselves. This resulted in American medical education and subsequently medical practice believing, for far too long, a flawed philosophy of patient care which led to widespread opioid over-prescribing and the opioid epidemic.