How pain as a vital sign contributed to prescription pill mills
At this point, few would argue against the need for increased oversight of the legions of so-called pain management clinics that have sprung up in the past decade.
After all, an annually increasing majority of them are nothing more than lucrative cash and carries for the legal sale of prescription narcotics to anyone with a need or want — and the cash in hand. They have become a public mental health …
How pain as a vital sign contributed to prescription pill mills
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