... too often that addiction began by following the advice of a doctor who, in turn, was following the drug manufacturers instructions. ok. it's the doctors an

... too often that addiction began by following the advice of a doctor who, in turn, was following the drug manufacturers instructions. ok. it's the doctors and big pharma. so, let's get doctors to prescribe fewer painkillers? is that the policy proposal? the next thing you see is a news story about the huge amount of unnecessary suffering because our evil, immature government has unjustly demonized painkillers, which are, after all, just good medicine and common sense. these stories go around and around.