Unfortunately, chronic pain patients have become the most abused patient population. This is incredibly unfounded because they also have the lowest rate of abuse, addiction, and diversion at a mere 0.3%! The rate among the general population is still fairly low at 3.0 %.
This doesn’t seem to have any affect on the United States government, many healthcare providers, healthcare staff, insurance companies, large medical groups. Some oncology practice rely on “mindfulness”, distraction, music, exercise, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacology instead of pain medication, even in the later stages of cancer! It’s ludicrous.
“Recognizing the intrinsic dignity of all persons and that withholding of pain treatment is profoundly wrong, leading to unnecessary suffering which is harmful; we declare that access to appropriate opioid pain medication for chronic pain is a basic human right.”
The United Nations
Now, you will encounter those who will say, “But the United States consumes 80% of the world’s opioids and other countries don’t have access to needed opioid pain medications.
Again, this is patently false!
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