Thousands of Americans face acute pain caused daily by surgeries, accidents or other temporary conditions. Many turn to opioid medications for relief. Because of the medications’ addictive nature, tragedy often follows.

The opioid crisis continues to claim victims. Despite a plentiful supply of safe and effective alternatives, red tape makes it easier to prescribe opioids than non-addictive options, limiting freedom of choice for doctors and patients and putting lives at risk.

Data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that, in 2022, 108,000 Americans died of drug overdoses. More than 81,000 of those deaths involved prescribed or illicit opioids. Shockingly, 15,000 of those tragedies involved only prescribed opioids. In other

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