Opioid-Based Prescription Drugs, America's New Cocaine: A Patient's Own Story Book

"I chose to write this book because I recognized that there was a correlation
between street addiction and patient addiction to prescription medications and
the culture of fear and stigma that currently exists in many pain clinics today.
Because of the explosion in the abuse of opioid-based prescriptions too many
doctor's have become suspicious of their patients. In their defense, they're being
investigated in some circumstances so they're making a genuine effort to cleanse
their clinics of the abusers, most especially, the addicts that aren't really suffering
at all (addicts masquerading as patients).
Unfortunately, pain doctors sometimes get it wrong when they're oversuspicious
of legitimate patients needing an increase in their dose or quantity to
relieve their chronic suffering. This also causes patients who take their medications
as prescribed to fear their doctors when they have a legitimate need to increase
their medication's strength.
This book was not written to attack pain management specialists. Many
have even opened addiction clinics in their own practices in order to address
this epidemic, and others are doing their best to prove that they re not overprescribing
anymore. Opioid-based prescriptions are fi rmly settled in to the
number-two-spot on the list of most abused drugs in America, ahead of Cocaine
and behind Marijuana. Prescribed opioids are America's New Cocaine, for now.
It's my sincere hope, however, that opioid-based prescription medication will
lose its newfound status as soon as possible."