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PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — More people in Ohio die from prescription drug overdoses than traffic crashes and a newly formed state task force said pain clinics are part of the problem.
Ohio does not regulate who opens a clinic or how they operate it, and some people believe addicts are going there -- not for pain -- but for the pills, 10TV's Andy Hirsch reported on Thursday.
The article's headline seems to accuse clinics of prescribing Pain drugs excessively, creating an "epidemic." However, their investigative reporters posed as people seeking pain pills, and "found a different experience when we took our hidden cameras into three of the clinics. In each case we were told we needed an MRI or CAT scan, something proving the pain..."
It's great that heavy traffic enforcement in OH has reduced traffic deaths to the point where they are less than deaths associated with prescription (not necessarily pain pill) toxicity and problems.
It seems that this article simply confirms what has already been heavily reported in the media and in health care forums: that people suffering from chronic and/or intense pain are systematically undertreated by doctors that are constantly being harassed by government "anti-drug" bureaucrats.
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