Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The Sacklers got to keep their billions - and people undergoing painful medical ...
The Sacklers got to keep their billions - and people undergoing painful medical procedures or living with chronic pain are left holding the bag, subject to tight pain-med controls that forces them to prove - through increasingly stringent systems - that they truly deserve their medicine.
In other words, the beneficiary of the opioid control system is the system itself - not the patients who need opioids.
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