anti-opioid

# Reprinted with permission by the Cato Institute.

Dear Pain Patients,

I may be a musician but that doesn't mean that all genres are my cup of tea. While I'll pay a ridiculous amount of money to go hear Rachmaninoff's second, it usually takes tow chains to drag me to a Broadway musical.

I've written more than 75 articles about the travesty that is now our drug "policy." Many of them can be found on the ACS

In 2018 Sen.

It should be no secret to Canadian pain patients that things aren't exactly rosy up there. Our neighbors to the north have their own set of anti-opioid fanatics (1) to make their lives miserable.

The anti-opioid crusade remains alive and well (unlike the pain patients who are the victims of it).

An organization called Poynter Institute for Media (1) released a "Politifact" report in an

Despite a decade of indisputable evidence that we are not having an "opioid crisis." but rather a "heroin/fentanyl crisis" you might think that people might start to figure this out and act accordingly.

OK, I may have taken some license with the title but not with the science.