Opioid Crisis Research Paper

Possible pitch: What is missing in the argument about opioid crisis and cannabis
Big pharma and big medicine are the actual culprits of the crisis, yet the onus remains on the patient to refuse this form of pain management. Nothing is spoken of those patients who live with debilitating chronic pain, who only have opioids as an option. Because insurance doesn’t cover cannabis, a prescription pain medicine is more accessible.
*work in the story of the big pharma guy who was busted, and mention the illegal and over-prescribing. Also, find proof that most doctors only need one semester of pain management, and how they don’t have to report an adverse reaction in a study. One pharmaceutical that has created many permanent damages(rw) and deaths …show more content…
Very few medical schools offer adequate training in pain management, and still fewer offer even one course in addiction. The result is that even experienced clinicians are unsure about how to deal with fundamental and omnipresent clinical issues in their practices. Many motivated, well-intentioned physicians do not know whether to prescribe opioids for pain management and, if so, which ones and for how long. Still fewer understand the pharmacologic or clinical relationships among tolerance, physical dependence, and addiction. This education is particularly critical for primary care practitioners, who prescribe more than 70% of opioid analgesics. https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/medicaleducation/56025
While they are expanding pain management in medical schools, but they aren’t adding curriculum that shows the many benefits of CBD (explanation) alone. While there is documented use throughout history that the cannabis plant can combat or positively treat many of the symptoms chronically ill people face, without the fatal side …show more content…
While most of the media focuses on the tragic overdoses or fatalities, not much is mentioned about the patients in chronic pain who take their medication as prescribed. Often, these patients have no access to a safer alternative, and the doctors who prescribe the pain medicine often shame them for continued use. As someone with two autoimmune diseases that cause debilitating pain, I can attest that I’ve been on long-term pharmaceuticals (not controlled substances) that have caused me permanent health issues and have been responsible for thousands of deaths. The most-recommended pharmaceutical that I am supposed to be on for Crohn’s disease is responsible for an onset of Lupus in many patients, but when I visit a specialist and beg for other options, I’m offered no alternative. While the onus isn’t entirely on the patient, the stigma remains, regardless of how responsible a person is with the medication. Because doctors are better trained to spot drug-seeking behavior than how to treat pain, the patient’s only choice is try other pharmaceuticals that are equally dangerous, just not on Schedule I. Many of these patients lack the access to safer alternatives like cannabis, and the pharmaceutical companies that created this crisis are doing everything to make that access more

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