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Why is it that patients in severe pain from serious diseases are being denied painkillers?

A report from the Chronic Pain Association of Canada (CPAC) states that it’s easier for addicts to obtain painkillers than non-addicted patients in desperate need of them.

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You might say this does not make sense. But the lack of common sense, uncommon as it is, does not surprise.

During the past fifty years I’ve seen a ton of hypocrisy that results in needless, disabling pain.

The report states, “Bad and distorted research used by Health Canada leads to tragedy for many Canadian patients.”

It charges that to deal with overdose deaths among illicit drug users, Health Canada decided on a new tactic.

The decision was to go after chronic pain patients and their doctors in the mistaken belief this would reduce deaths.

In effect, they are in part blaming the opioid epidemic on the doctor-prescribed medicines needed by patients.