when two members of congress, hal rogers and mary bono, both republicans introduced an act to have trainings to to prescribe opioids the ama , opposed it. i feel very sorry for those people who do need these drugs and who are finding themselves now struggling to get them. profession is really making no decisions and i , think that is what needs to happen is the medical profession needs to take care of this rather than industry or politicians or anybody else. host: one last call for you, carl, waiting in kansas city, missouri. good morning. caller: good morning. i am calling because i had recently an operation on my hand for what they call trigger finger. and they cut a little slice in my palm, and then i was out of the hospital at the v.a. in a very short time, and they gave me 30 tramadol opioid hills, which i did not take a single one of them. i am fairly educated. i still have them still in the -- sealed in the package, and i talked to the v.a., who said they are good for a year, so if i get a headache or a severe toothache. i do not know what to do with the things. i took a wet wash rag

about from eastern kentucky rodgers who was a voice for quite a long time, and then a congresswoman mary bono who's son became hooked and much later she came to this and they pushed through something called wine and kreegen act and kid became addicted and died and what that law would have done would have required doctors who wanted to prescribe opioids to have training in comprehensive training in pain treatment and addiction. ... >> and leading the fight against it was the american medical association. but they have a close relationship with the industry as well so you cannot deny the people that these need these drugs the 100 million that are in chronic need you must not deny them access because of the abusers. and to this day really they have retreated from their objections from that compulsory training of doctors but it is really in the fate of the political reality that they will not discuss the past they only want to talk about the future. >> i'm looking forward to reading this book and thank you so much for your work to tell the stories. i grew up in a community not as severe but i hav

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