> Doctors haven't stopped prescribing opioids because of the war on drugs. They've changed prescribing because opioid meds are not effective to treat long term

> Doctors haven't stopped prescribing opioids because of the war on drugs. They've changed prescribing because opioid meds are not effective to treat long term pain, and certainly not effective in the way they were being prescribed. Watch the documentary "Dr. Feelgood" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5192362/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5192362/) for a couple of very extreme, living and breathing refutations of that claim. It's not nearly cut and dried one way or the other.