Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180610:01:32:00
Entity here that's responsible, but there was a lot of money to be made by promoting the treatment of pain to the highest level. big pharma made a lot of money on this. and i was taught in residency you give people as much pain medicine as they need. you get them out of pain. we will judge your hospital. we will judge your emergency room based on your pain scores. that's how we were taught. and we were also told these medicines weren't all that addictive. we started handing out pills like crazy. 100 million americans have chronic pain. so, we did a disservice as doctors and as prescribers like...