I don't think there are any doctors, except perhaps a handful of cranks, who believe that opioids are "a placebo". Perhaps you mean something else? There are de

I don't think there are any doctors, except perhaps a handful of cranks, who believe that opioids are "a placebo". Perhaps you mean something else? There are definitely doctors who underprescribe pain medications to certain groups of people - as I understand it, women are notably underprescribed pain medications for example - but that doesn't mean that those people think opioids are a "placebo".