years,told me in that 20 i am wide open on the lomotil, a painkiller and nobody knew. and every nine operations, i took opioids and i got off of them. the lomotil, i need to do more and more. now i take 4 three times a day. one three times a day. it is impossible to have any -- host: that is joe's story. what are you thinking about? it seems likest: joe has experienced what a lot of patients have. they have had to have increasingly higher doses which is more and more dangerous as you approach levels that shut down your breathing and cause overdoses. a lot of of doctors are doing what joe's doctor is doing and notifying patients of the risks and having them do random drug screenings and testing samples to make the sure they are taking prescribed doses as prescribed. and a number of measures to make sure patients are not selling drugs. host: are there laws on the books that require doctors to do that or restrict how much they can prescribe? guest: it is different from state to state. massachusetts passed a law that asks doctors for first-time prescriptions to limit that

years,told me in that 20 i am wide open on the lomotil, a painkiller and nobody knew. and every nine operations, i took opioids and i got off of them. the lomotil, i need to do more and more. now i take 4 three times a day. one three times a day. it is impossible to have any -- host: that is joe's story. what are you thinking about? it seems likest: joe has experienced what a lot of patients have. they have had to have increasingly higher doses which is more and more dangerous as you approach levels that shut down your breathing and cause overdoses. a lot of of doctors are doing what joe's doctor is doing and notifying patients of the risks and having them do random drug screenings and testing samples to make the sure they are taking prescribed doses as prescribed. and a number of measures to make sure patients are not selling drugs. host: are there laws on the books that require doctors to do that or restrict how much they can prescribe? guest: it is different from state to state. massachusetts passed a law that asks doctors for first-time prescriptions to limit that