RT Journal
A1 Katz MH
T1 A true believer’s flawed analysis—reply
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD May 9
VO 171
IS 9
SP 867
OP 868
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.167
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.167
AB 
To be clear: I did not express, nor do I feel, frustration in caring for patients with complex pain and substance use issues. I have chosen to work in a county hospital caring for people with human immunodeficiency virus, many of whom have mental illness and/or substance addiction, because I find the work satisfying and rewarding. What I was trying to express was my concern that the model of pain treatment I was taught and have practiced is harming our patients. Indeed, in 2007 there were more deaths in the United States from unintentional drug overdoses due to opioids than heroin and cocaine combined.1