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1/? GM twitter! Let’s reset the discussion on pain management and opioid misuse. First, we must acknowledge/ I’ve always felt and said that we have a crisis of un and undertreated pain in the US, and it can lead to suicide, self medication w illicits, and other bad outcomes.
2/? We also have an overdose crisis in our country. It is NOW largely fueled by fentanyl, but there traditionally have been, and still are many people who first become dependent due to opioids prescribed to them - or diverted from others to whom they were over prescribed.
3/? It both can be and is true that many people benefit from opioids, while others who are getting them are seeing more downside than upside. Not either/ or. Examples of the latter are many patients (especially peds) getting dental extractions, and most with migraines.
