Sunday, October 22, 2017

Don’t demonise prescription opioids


It is rare that we hear from those who use prescription opioids.  Their voices are important counterpoints to the loud and self-righteous jeremiads of physicians, politicians and law enforcement professionals.

This essay was published in the BMJ in October 2017.

Bob Roehr biomedical journalist.  BMJ
“I use an opioid drug, hydrocodone, every six hours, and have done so for about a decade.“Demonising prescription opioids can come to no good end."




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