#cpp The National Pain Strategy is a complete disaster. It’s so transparent, when you spend your life on the sidelines you observe a lot-like gaslighting by policy in service to the War on Drugs. The U.S. NIH has known since the 1970s that opiate pain medicines are safe,
miraculously helpful for most people in pain, and addiction is rare with use. This same society that doesn’t want to have to see bodies with painful illness created the conditions of poverty and despair that led people prone to addiction to start using drugs irresponsibly.
