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Are clinicians complicit in the Fentanyl epidemic?

Janet Tamaren, a family physician, details the issue of Fentanyl overdoses due to reliance on street drugs after opioids were cut off by doctors. Tamaren calls for doctors to prescribe substitutes like methadone or Suboxone, or keep patients on moderate opioid doses for pain management. She emphasizes that numerous patients she treated led normal lives while managing chronic pain using Percocet or Lortab.

Source: www.kevinmd.com –

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