NIH Editorial: “It’s the Drug War, Stupid!”

An editorial now appears on the NIH's PubMed, telling a truth rarely told in the journals they publish: the opioid overdose crisis is the fault of the War on Drugs and has nothing whatsoever to do with pain patients.

“Today’s nonmedical opioid users are not yesterday’s patients; implications of data indicating stable rates of nonmedical use and pain reliever use disorder,” Journal of Pain Research 12:617-620 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6369835/?s=09

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0:00 - Intro
3:35 - The Data Do Not Fit the Narrative Driving Opioid Policy
5:37 - The Causes Aren't What Policy Makers Say They Are
7:13 - Prescription Monitoring Programs Push People to the Black Market
12:38 - Doubling Prescriptions Didn't Increase Overdoses, Reducing Them Didn't Lower Deaths
14:21 - Growth Is at a Constant Rate Since the '70s, Regardless of Opioid Prescriptions
16:16 - Opioid Abuse Does NOT Start with Prescriptions
17:53 - Media and Policy Makers Are Just Too Simple-minded
19:12 - The Standard Narrative Is Harmful
20:13 - The Solution Is to End Drug Prohibition
22:02 - Health Care Is Nuanced; Regulation Is a Sledgehammer