Addiction Psychiatrist, A. Kolodny has repeatedly made this claim (and others which are just as outrageous), but hasn't provided evidence to support them. To continue naturalizing this claim with no evidence not only confuses the public, it is also patently false. See thread.
https://twitter.com/1a/status/1357005029115375618
To further prove my point, multiple studies had been done before these claims became part of the popular narrative, and after. When the evidence continually debunks a claim, it needs to stop being repeated ad infinitum, i.e., naturalized. Please stop normalizing this.
“less than 1% of chronic pain patients without a history of substance abuse problems became addicted to opioids during treatment.”
Remember, dependence ≠ addiction.
Cochrane Opioids for long-term treatment of noncancer pain: cochrane.org/CD006605/SYMPT…
Remember, dependence ≠ addiction.
Cochrane Opioids for long-term treatment of noncancer pain: cochrane.org/CD006605/SYMPT…
Note, this finding could be widely representative. Also, reliant ≠ addicted:
Study followed 500 patients for 6mos after ER visit. 1% of people became reliant on the meds 6mos after their discharge, & 80% did not fill a second prescription in same window.
newsweek.com/only-1-percent…
Study followed 500 patients for 6mos after ER visit. 1% of people became reliant on the meds 6mos after their discharge, & 80% did not fill a second prescription in same window.
newsweek.com/only-1-percent…
Addiction Psychiatrist Dr. Kolodny also has multiple conflicts of interest, many of which he doesn't appear to have disclosed yet. Though he did recently acknowledge one:
Clarification of Reporting of Potential Conflicts of Interest — jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… — Kolodny 2019
Clarification of Reporting of Potential Conflicts of Interest — jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… — Kolodny 2019
Misuse of statistics and other problems:
Pain management, prescription opioid mortality, and the CDC: is the devil in the data? dovepress.com/pain-managemen…
"Significantly inflated" - Quantifying the Epidemic of Prescription Opioid Overdose Deaths ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJ…
Pain management, prescription opioid mortality, and the CDC: is the devil in the data? dovepress.com/pain-managemen…
"Significantly inflated" - Quantifying the Epidemic of Prescription Opioid Overdose Deaths ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJ…
People are NOT diagnosed with addiction for taking medications as directed. Conflating addiction with dependence is dangerous, intellectually dishonest, duplicitous. Kolodny has several unacknowledged COIs & he's failed repeatedly to provide appropriate evidence for his claims. 
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