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.

Our preoccupationwith opioid misuse could become the tail wagging the dog

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."

The Other End of the Stethoscope

by Evan F. Joiner

NEJM October 5, 2017

This is a fine perspective piece by a 4th year medical student.  Like many of us, he was searching for meaning in his work.

I believe I have come to medicine looking for some kind of peace and some kind of purpose. I do wonder whether it lives here.

The Other End of the Stethoscope is a “keeper” that you will enjoy reading.