Wants other options allowed when treating pain.
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Dear Editor,
During the Obama administration, opioid use spread like wildfire particularly in the Midwest and its rural areas. There was a general lack of recognition of the seriousness of the problem for years.
A newly released federally funded study concluded that more than 80 percent of the two million people addicted to opioids are not being treated with one of the three medications which would help them go into remission or prevent them from overdosing. The three drugs have been approved by FDA and some date back to 1972.