Is Roger Fillingham, PhD Justified Saying This?

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Enduring pain: how a 1996 opioid policy change had long-lasting effects

"One of the shifts now taking place, Fillingim believes, is from the rights of the individual patient to what’s best for society, which, in the face of a national opioid crisis, are no longer synonymous.

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch,” Fillingim says.

Roger B. Fillingim, PhD

https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-fillingim-16349933/

 

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its too simplistic.

it truly isn't about patient rights. it should have been about patient safety and do no harm over treat pain. Big Pharma was never bound to this mantra, and many doctors, in their greed or narcissistic grandeur, latched on to the concept that chronic pain patients needed - no, actually - deserved narcotics.

 

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Enduring pain: how a 1996 opioid policy change had long-lasting effects

"One of the shifts now taking place, Fillingim believes, is from the rights of the individual patient to what’s best for society, which, in the face of a national opioid crisis, are no longer synonymous.

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch,” Fillingim says.

Roger B. Fillingim, PhD

https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-fillingim-16349933/

Seems similar to the arguments the left are advancing to ban semi-automatic rifles. I appreciate this fellow's honesty. Leaves room for an intelligent discussion, instead of a bunch of Ad Hominem attacks by both sides which seems to be the current standard for discourse.