Pain management and contradictory articles

John Ford writes about the continuing confusion surrounding opiods and pain management:

As the appropriate indications for narcotics are expanding, more doctors may be going to jail for offering such progressive care. Given the modern recognition of pain as the “fifth vital sign” not to mention the increasing medical liability assumed by not controlling it, prosecuting more doctors doesn’t seem the way to go.

Medical boards and regulators need to catch up with medical science.