A decade ago there was a giant push in the media government, and hospital administrations calling doctors heartless for not prescribing more painkillers. Hours

A decade ago there was a giant push in the media government, and hospital administrations calling doctors heartless for not prescribing more painkillers. Hours of mandatory classes on using opioids in all sorts of situations. Exposes on chronic pain patients made to suffer. This isn't really something that happened behind closed doors with drug reps. There was a concerted public effort to change the culture in medicine.