… and they should not be withheld from anybody with acute or chronic pain,” “Then we came out with the fifth vital sign, that every physician was held to the standard that we would do pain scores on everyone. Based on those studies, we couldn’t restrict opioids at all. In fact, physicians from a New … Continue reading Opioid Crisis. ““We got here in part because there was a paper done in the 1980s by a well-meaning physician that said opioids are not addictive….