(02-10-2018 11:14 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  The over-prescribing began because those 1% addiction rate studies were industry-funded. The 8% figure is better accepted and had that been the data used when approval was sought there would have been more restrictions, though probably not the ones we are imposing now that are making Chinese fentanyl and Mexican heroin so profitable.

Counterpoint: A large study, reported last month, pegs the number at 1%. No funding received; no industry affiliation. [Note: Receiving funding or being affiliated with a vested party doesn't refute data. One should bring more to a critique of scientific studies than ad hominem.]