"One in five Canadians suffers miserable chronic pain;" And the writer accuses the front-line workers of inflating the numbers..?

This woman's logic doesn't add up.  She disputes that fentanyl street deaths are an epdemic, implying that they're not a matter of grave concern, because the number of deaths is small relative to the general population..? ('only' a thousand deaths in BC last year, by the way). Yet, she has a "rare-rish" inflammatory desease - something that also occurs in relatively low numbers.  Should we therefore apply the same disregard for her own condition?

She doesn't ackowledge that over-prescribed pain meds can lead to addiction and dependency, which can cause the user to seek out illicit sources, tumbling further and further into a hole from which there is no escape.  The chinese stuff is what they buy after the doctor no longer acquiesces.

Street junkies are using fentanyl to escape some sort of pain as well. She has more in common with them than she realizes.