The myths about opioid analgesics

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The problem began in the early 1900s with the passage of the on

Act, effectively outlawing opiates. This took place in the moral

climate which produced alcohol prohibition and " reefer madness. " Prior

to 1914 opiates were freely available over the counter.

Law enforcement has never perceived a distinction between pain patients

and addicts. As a result, legitimate pain doctors have been prosecuted

for " drug dealing " over the past eighty years. In this climate of

intimidation it took medical science sixty-five years to discover that

the vast majority of pain patients do not become addicts. Within a few

years of this medical breakthrough, laws encouraging appropriate

treatment started being passed. Fifteen years later they are still

being ignored. The drug police routinely violate these laws in their

continuing witch hunt against the medical profession, thwarting the

will of the people and denying pain sufferers their right to

compassionate treatment.Two National Institute of Drug Abuse studies, involving

more than forty

thousand pain patients, found that the addiction rate in this

population is less than one in one thousand. Pain patients do not even

get high on their medications, when taken as prescribed. Common sense

tells us this, as the majority of Americans have used these

medications, known as Vicodin, Percocet, and Codeine, without becoming

addicted.

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