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Reply to "MLB drug testing is a sham"

Some of the broad comments regarding physicians and opiods on this thread are ignorant at best and illustrate why there is an opioid epidemic.  While there will always be physicians that prescribe inappropriately, most prescribe responsibly.  While there will always be those patients that abuse opioids and cause themselves to become addicted, most do not. 

The problem is with a culture that is not willing to accept pain.  Everyday I have patients that believe they need a narcotic opioid in instances when they don't.  The one notion that can't be denied is that Skaggs was an abuser if not an addict.  As sad as his and many other situations are, you do ultimately have to accept responsibility for the things that you ingest.  

 

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