Blaming Prescription Pain Pills For The Opioid Epidemic Is Fake News –
How negligent media have helped inflate a deadly moral panic over prescription opioids and ignored the real sources of addiction while hurting people who live with devastating chronic pain. – By Peter Pischke– March 26, 2019
Although opioid-related deaths are driven mainly by heroin and black-market fentanyl, you would not know that from most of the press coverage, which emphasizes pain medication prescribed to patients who become addicted, overdose, and die.
This narrative is “fake news.”
This is the fairytale the media has been pushing for years and years. Just by its incessant repetition, it has ingrained itself in our culture and remains stubbornly immune to facts.
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The War On Chronic Pain Patients 