https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1507771 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1507771 Volkow is a mainstream researcher, using data from the p

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1507771 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1507771 Volkow is a mainstream researcher, using data from the peak of the crisis, and cites the rate at just under 8%. It is not at all unreasonable to assume that with proper prescribing (unlike what happened in the 90s and 2000s) that chronic pain patients can have opioid misuse and addiction numbers near or matching that of palliative care patients, where addiction rates are closer to 1% than 10%.