Everyone seems to be on the opioid abuse bandwagon. Now the White House has joined in by asking Congress for $1.1 billion for the FY 2017 budget to “combat the nation’s spiraling opioid epidemic.” Nowhere in all of this is any real discussion of the patients who suffer from chronic pain and how to help them. Even the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (“ASHP”) seems to be paying minimal service to…
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