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Re:Coroner letters changed habits of doctors whose patients ... by throwaway91241 on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:16AM (#17731302)
You keep posting this article, but it has no evidence in it. It links to several papers that tangentially support your claim. Let's look at a different paper that somewhat refutes it:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4032801/

Here's the raw data on prescriptions and outcomes summarized in that paper, built from claims data for 2000–2005:

  Opioid Dose and Days Supply
                         total       addiction
  No opioid use          371,371     150 (0.04%)
  Low dose, acute        90,415      111 (0.12%)
  Low dose, chronic      6,902       50 (0.72%)
  Medium dose, acute     83,542      101 (0.12%)
  Medium dose, chronic   3,654       47 (1.3%)
  High dose, acute       12,378      15 (0.12%)
  High dose, chronic     378         23 (6%)
So acute opioid doses 3x your risk of addiction, no matter the strength. And long term dosing will 18x to 150x your risk, depending on the strength. Relatively few people are receiving chronic (90+ days) opioid doses, but those that are have a significant risk of addiction.

I'm not the right person to do this analysis properly, but I'd hardly call this "thoroughly debunked"

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