Agreed, that simple change would be a big start. No more 30 day prescriptions for a dental operation where 2 days is more than enough.
Politicians in US are so incompetent that they can't even get that common sense change into legislation in less than five years.
Yes, I definitely agree. I have heard of many stories from pain management physicians about patients who come to them seeking large prescriptions of opioids. The ones I know don't prescribe if it seems a person is addicted to them or limit them to low amount of days. I do worry about it since there still other physicians who aren't as careful about it.
Apparently dispossessed middle-age men turn to opioids because society has removed their sense of worth.
Regulating opioids is not addressing the root problem and thus will not fix it. The dispossessed will turn to some $1 street drug like Flakka or who knows what to address the insanity they feel due to society being turned upside down by socialism.
Putting bandaids on skin cancer is futile. You must go to the root of the problem, which is cultural decadence.