The solution to the opioid crisis can’t be a quick fix
, and continue to pursue 40 other opioid manufacturers and distributors with legal action. So much for those “safe” opioid prescriptions.
Despite continuing research into other classes of medications, opioids are still the mainstay of treatment for opioid addiction at this time, and those that are used for this purpose are called opioid agonist therapies . In terms of saving lives, nothing else has proved nearly as useful.
One of the pitfalls of the current discourse around the opioid crisis is the error of taking evidence that supports one thing, and claiming it as scientific support for something else. Advocates for public supply of addictive drugs , a.k.a. “safe supply,” often cite evidence for the supervised consumption model, iOAT, as support for the practice of distributing opioids whose use willbe supervised.
Chronic pain is commonplace. An injury often initiates the story of a person’s opioid addiction – a motor-vehicle collision, or a workplace injury. I have patients whose lives were saved by complex surgeries and intensive-care units, who were discharged home without adequate access to rehabilitation but with a prescription for opioids.
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