Addiction Quote by S. E. Smith

“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

“Researchers also trace the dramatic increase in addiction to a shift in health-care philosophy that started to emphasize treating a patient’s pain rather than…

— Robert Dugoni

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

— Sonya Huber

“I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don’t have the mobility, energy or life options I used…

— Sonya Huber

“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

“the media, at least in the U.S., tends to focus on pain pill use, abuse, and addiction by people who do not have chronic…

— Anna Hamilton