NY Times article on how the opioid crisis affects people in chronic pain

[Dougg]

All - FYI, here is a guest essay from today's New York Times talking about the problems that have been created by the rules restricting the prescription of opioids. I'm grateful that this point is at least getting some major press coverage. nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opin...

[SueJohnson]

Unfortunately you can't read it unless you are a subscriber, but yes glad it is getting coverage and hope all people reading this have commented to the CDC on this as you suggested in your previous post 6 days ago.

[Dougg in reply to SueJohnson]

I'm sorry, Sue. I was hoping that wouldn't be the case and that this article would be publicly available. Hopefully, the article will be read widely enough that it will have some positive impact on physician reluctance to prescribe opioids for RLS. Although RLS is not specifically mentioned, I followed up with a short letter to the editor (which I hope will be published) pointing out that a similar problem exists with RLS and other conditions.