The flip side of this and something that is barely ever talked about, is that for patients with severe chronic pain, access to medicine for relief has become ne

The flip side of this and something that is barely ever talked about, is that for patients with severe chronic pain, access to medicine for relief has become nearly impossible. Often even if you get a legitimate prescription pharmacies will not fill it due to fear/quotas being enforced. This fear was so pervasive they had my terminally ill father on stupidly high doses of methadone which nearly killed him, simply because they were too afraid of prescribing more traditional opioids.