The medical community is willingly under-medicating the entire nation for pain, and we have a national calamity with Fentanyl overdoses. Doctors share the blame because their culpability in the opiate crisis is at the heart of all of this. The “pendulum swing” from over-medicating patients to under-medicating them is part of the problem. Prescribed by a doctor, a person in legit pain or an addict can measure the amount of opiate they are taking. It is much safer if you can measure the drug. Yes, we had addicts on that side of the pendulum swing that took advantage, but they died in much fewer numbers. Overdoses were nothing when juxtaposed against the Fentanyl era.

The people who need proper pain management were and are being undermedicated and sent to the streets or some pill clinic. Call it a clinic, call it a pill farm, whatever you want to call it, the practice is killing folks because people won’t jump through those hoops. We could no longer ask our doctor for these medications. The entire nation of physicians became too afraid of the government and flat-out stopped medicating patients properly. Our government threatens to take their license to practice medicine if they give us the pills. This is a huge part of why America finds itself in this quandary.

When physicians operate under fear they will look after themselves before the patient, could you blame them? They spent all of those years and all of that money to go to medical school, so why risk it? Many folks in the medical community see all of this and agree with the notion put out in this article. However, they stand there helplessly against a system that would crush them if they spoke up.

At the real core of this problem is the government. The feds create these pendulum swings in our society. They always go extreme to one side of an issue causing damage. Then, they go extreme in the other direction, and a whole new world of destruction forms. Whether they tell you an apple a day keeps the doctor away, or they say apple skins give you cancer, the government is the problem. Our federal government screws up everything it touches.

We have a nation of millions of unmedicated people living in abject pain. Many Americans will not go to the streets or to a pain mill to find relief. So, those folks, and there are legions, just go through life in utter agony. You wonder why we have this crazy suicide rate; I don’t ponder it. There is a big percentage of people who take their lives just to escape the pain. This is not rocket science but rather common sense.

Something has to give here. Either the government finds a happy medium between the pendulum swings, or the doctors collectively stand together and put an end to this barbarism. Chronic pain is a real thing and leaving Americans in that state is barbaric and pernicious. The government needs to take its boot off the necks of our family doctors and allow them to practice medicine humanely. No other advanced nation treats its populace this way. There is nothing more lethal than the American government with good intentions.

C. Rich

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