The issue of not properly treating chronic pain with opioids due to drug prohibition's chilling effect on the medical community has been coming to a head slowly over the years. Now, advocates of pain management are turning to the protection of the courts in an effort to have the "deadly disease of chronic pain" declared a disability under the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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