Pain wars

How zealous persecution of pain physicians is affecting patients with legitimate pain, and how many other doctors are being gun-shy when it comes to treating pain:

Meanwhile, Dr. Schneider and his wife remain jailed without bond at the request of federal prosecutors pending a first court date later this month. His patients are now scrambling to find replacement doctors with little success, especially now that other local doctors see what could await them if they apply aggressive opioid pain management treatments.

(via THCB)

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