The idea that legitimate, trustworthy pain patients exhibited classic signs of drug addiction and drug seeking was advanced. That really blew my mind. Addiction is this social and political construction on top of inevitable aspects of opioid use. And it just exposes the horrors of this segregated system where some people who are using drugs are situated and treated such that those effects become fatal,. they become disastrous, and they don't have to be.

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