Yes, the organization drank the kool-aid, and after that it was a opioid exhibition at their annual meetings with towering displays of how each narcotic is better than the next. The SCS boys also were heavily invested. But the opioid sellers are also represented at many other major meetings also, therefore the AAPM should not feel alone. Yet, the opioid problem is indeed overwhelming in this country, primarily due to pill sharing between friends and the friend who is sharing so easily accessing opioids (81% see only one doctor). Physicians need to employ tools to stop this out of control sharing, prescribe fewer pills (less to share), stop accepting those that were discharged from another practice for substance abuse, check the PMP, and perform pill counts and UDS.
