How do you know that it 'isn't doing any good?"
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~Chris
Living in the Boondocks.
Well, I may have been somewhat hyperbolic, and stated as a fact an opinion which I can't support with peer-reviewed articles.
But the bottom line is that USA has more drug addicts per capita and more people in prison per capita than just about any other place on the planet, and we are still arguing about whether the criminal justice system is any good for dealing with drug abuse.
There is the whole separate issue of whether chronic narcotic administration is of any use in dealing with chronic non-malignant pain. I tend to believe it is, much like meds are useful to control, but never cure other chronic diseases -- but it is much harder for me to determine who benefits from chronic narcotics than it is to determine who benefits from chronic lisinopril or metformin.
