However, it’s sad that the abusers are making life more difficult for people in real pain:
John Grim is tired of staying quiet about his pain and the medicine he takes to control it. He’s fed up with the stigma surrounding the thousands of patients like him who use narcotics for legitimate reasons. And he’s outraged that state regulators want to set up a computer database that would track every prescription he fills.






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