Clamp down on drugs harms some pain patients

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Regarding The Herald Editorial Board’s repeated calls to raise criminal penalties for users of illegal opioids (and other so-called “hard drugs” including the relatively benign hallucinogen class): has it occurred to it that many people who turned to black-market fentanyl are legitimate pain patients who were denied proper pain medication because of the opioid hysteria of recent years?

Clamp down on drugs harms some pain patients
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