I don't think Jєωιѕн doctors are overprescribing opioids, my dude.

ALL hospitals -- no matter what the race of the doctor is (!?) have been overprescribing opioids for a long time. Wisdom teeth, back surgery, a busted knee, they just hand out Vicodin and other opiates like candy.

This.

The downvotes came out of nowhere. It's true that doctors have some part to play in the opioid crisis. They will prescribe an opioid, and some people get addicted and go to heroin.

Some of the blame is also on Big Pharma, and some of it is the sudden influx of fentanyl. They lace the heroin with fentanyl and overdoses spike.

True.

Whenever my husband has had to have surgery, he is always prescribed about 10 times the amount of the common prescription narcotic that he really needs, no matter what doctor he sees. So, we must tell the doctor and pharmacist to reduce the number of narcotic pills from 20 to 2. Then the pharmacist tells us that if we reduce the amount of narcotic, then we cannot get a refill. In addition, if my husband starts to feels pain, then it will take time for the pain medicine to kick in. Furthermore, we will lose the quantity discount. And finally, we are told that repeated calls to the doctor for more pills will be a waste of his time, a waste of our time, and a waste of fuel and car mileage.

This threat of "real" pain encourages people to continue taking the medicine longer than they need. People are fed the fake pill pain narrative and are told to comply, trust their doctor, and follow all doctor's orders. The false narrative follows: if you do not trust your doctor, then you must be crazy, after all, doctors have spent years studying medicine and know what they are talking about -> mental pain.

So, we are threatened with fake narratives of physical pain, mental pain, pain of inconveniencing the doctor and pharmacist, and financial pain if we fail to comply with the fake prescription narrative.



How did we ever go from eating out at restaurants to taking drugs and fentanyl?

You do not need opiates and you certainly, unless you are end-end-end-end-stage cancer, do not need Fentanyl. That's literally what it's prescribed for — very late stage cancer of whom literally nothing else is working.