By Jessica Swarner | KTAR
A pain management specialist and a patient suffering from chronic pain say that access to opioids is necessary to people who need them to manage their conditions.
As Arizona and other states work to place more rules on opioid prescriptions, some patients are afraid they are being lumped in with addicts, according to pain management specialist Dr. Tony Bui.
“For the chronic pain patients, it’s been very difficult for them because … they feel pretty marginalized from the restrictive action that the state has taken,” Bui told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Bruce St. James & Pamela Hughes Show on Thursday.
“We’re talking about people who are not … (experiencing) addiction, but more like dependent on these medications, only because they have pain.”
