Because…and this is documented and has been used as evidence in courtrooms across the country…the manufacturers of opioid pain killers LIED about the negative effects. THEY LIED. They came up with the term “pseudo-addicted”, meaning that opioid addicts weren’t *truly *addicted. They traveled around the country and paid doctors to prescribe opioids.
I personally, in real life, met one of the doctors who was found by a court of law to have been doing these things. His name is a matter of public record.
The reason there was a surge in opioid Rx in the 1990s and early 2000s was because this is when the manufacturers were peddling opioids. Prior to this, they were mostly reserved for terminally ill cancer patients. This is when a doctor came out with research that concluded that opioids were safe and effective for all pain. He has since rescinded his findings and says he was WRONG about the safety and efficacy of the drugs.
Opioids work very well for terminally ill cancer patients. **They do not work for many other types of pain. I actually met, in real life, a medical researcher who works for a drug manufacturer that makes opioids and she told me directly that opioids are **not ****effective for most types of pain.
