Why I stopped prescribing narcotics, and never looked back
I was never a big prescriber of narcotics. I grew up “country,” in a tougher world where your parents taught you to accept pain as a part of life. Pain is how you know you’re still alive. They’d tell me, “if you’re hurtin’ you ain’t dead yet.” You fell down; it was going to hurt. You learned not to fall. Twisted your ankle doing something stupid (and it was always …
