I agree that those addicted need specific intervention, which is not more of the very drug for which they are addicted. Doctors are becoming smarter and prescribing far fewer narcotics through the ER,...
As an ER nurse I can tell you that whomever came up with the adage, "a patients pain is, whatever they say it is" never worked in an ER. Rule #1--- Pts lie. The 1-10 pain scale is so ridiculously...