You'll find some right in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37544012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37544012 Lots of people think non-tri

You'll find some right in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37544012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37544012 Lots of people think non-trivial pain warrants opiods. The problem becomes who decides what counts as non-trivial pain. There was a shift in early 2000's towards "believe the patient", which caused an explosion in prescriptions pretty quickly. After all "if 5% of people after xyz surgery demand them, maybe the other 95% are silently suffering", etc. (just describing what is, not what ought to be)