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
"what do you think the correct amount of supply is for the next month"
not complicated
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