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Back to Nation's Manmade Opioid Epidemic
04Jun 2017 BY

Pain Patients in Oregon Being Pushed to the Brink (including Suicide) by Prevention Effort

The Bulletin Publishes Front Page (A1) Report by Markian Hawryluk on Adverse Effects of Opiod Epidemic Prevention Efforts

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Pain Patients in Oregon Being Pushed to the Brink (including Suicide) by Prevention Effort
By Markian Hawryluk  |  The Bulletin  |  June 4, 2017

The nation’s struggle to corral the runaway opioid overdose epidemic with new restrictions on pain medications is backing pain patients into a corner. Patients are being dropped by their doctors, forced to cut their doses drastically and endure dangerous withdrawals, or abandoned to cope with a medically created opioid dependence on their own. Patients who have always taken their medications as prescribed say they are treated like drug addicts and are increasingly driven to despair.

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