Addiction Quote by Robert Dugoni

“In the debate over opioid addiction, there’s one group we aren’t hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs…

— S. E. Smith

“Several medical professional organizations acknowledge the utility of opioid therapy and many case series and large surveys report satisfactory reductions in pain, improvement in…

— Andrew Rosenblum

“The addiction crisis is terrifying, and many people don’t comprehend appropriate opioid use. When I first started taking pain medication, I remember a family…

— Dianne Bourque

“Government agencies are trying to get doctors to cut back on prescribing opioids. I understand that they need to do something about the epidemic…

— Alison Moore

“Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed them by…

— Sonya Huber

Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The…

— Maia Szalavitz

“the media coverage of the ‘opiate epidemic’ as driven by pill pushing-doctors and by pain patients worries me a lot, and I think it…

— Anita Gupta

“I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.”

— Sonya Huber

“Anyone who takes opioids on a regular basis will become dependent upon them, meaning they will have to taper off gradually to avoid withdrawal…

— Karen Lee Richards

“Despite what appears to be a low risk of addiction in naïve, chronic pain patients, it is reasonable to ask how much harm is…

— Howard L. Fields

“In the cloudy swirl of misleading ideas surrounding public discussion of addiction, there’s one that stands out: the misconception that drug taking by itself…

— Gabor Maté

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

— Eckhart Tolle