man there has to be a better solution to opioid addiction then "make doctors a cartel"
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RT @mattyglesias
What happens when physicians face new competition from expanded scope of practice for nurse-practitioners?
Physicians hand out more prescriptions for addictive painkillers and for combo prescriptions of opioids opioids and benzodiazepines. 😬😬😬
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30889
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1628211303415177224
do opioid addicts even like being addicted or is it just a system 1 need-drug-now thing
i feel like the second is pretty solvable without limiting patient autonomy
there was some proposal about dispensing opioids in a controlled manner through vending machines
something like this https://mysafe.org/2021/04/vice-a-vending-machine-in-canada-is-dispensing-a-drug-twice-as-strong-as-heroin/
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RT @pawnofcthulhu
@0xfbifemboy yeah
chronic pain patients exist and i get the sense they are rather grumpy about the current state of affairs
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1628265598479384576
"what do you think the correct amount of supply is for the next month"
not complicated