Opioids: physicians and pain patients speak

This page is a record of what physicians and the pain patients wrote about opioids on KevinMD.com. It draws on 228 essays and podcast transcripts. In 2016-2018, physicians wrote about how they were persuaded to prescribe, who to blame and how to prescribe less. Since 2023, physicians and pain patients wrote about the aftermath: patients tapered or abandoned, deaths moving from prescriptions to fentanyl, physicians prosecuted for prescribing.