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Did Prescription Opioids Cause The Overdose Epidemic?
The Soho Forum Debates
Drug Dependence and Addiction
Many people, including apparently my opponent, wrongly confuse chemical dependence and addiction. Opiams are among drugs that can cause dependence, but they are far from the only drugs to do so. Beta blockers use to treat hypertension, create dependence. Anti epileptic drugs also generate dependence. The same with ana depressons. Would anybody suggest a person whose blood pressure is being well controlled with a bata blocker is a bata blocking adect? Yet this is what is now being said about chronic pain patients who've had their pain control for several years, wenon going opate treatment. According to the debased resolution, over prescribing opium has caused an epidemic of opiote diction, which
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