The casual stigmatisation of opioid use is lazy journalism
- Written by Michael Vagg, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medicine & Pain Specialist, Barwon Health
I was a bit annoyed by this article that appeared on The Age website and was retweeted widely. The title - Opioid addiction: Treatments get people off painkillers, but it is a hard road - suggests the story is about prescription opioid addiction.
The body of the piece then sets out the familiar narrative (to me at least) that current prescribing...
