Opinion: Stop persecuting doctors for legitimately prescribing opioids for chronic pain

Doctors should have gotten the message by now that deserting patients is a violation of medical practice standards, not to mention human rights. But they haven't. To the contrary, they've been hearing about other doctors who got raided by Drug Enforcement Agency swat teams, their patients terrorized, medical records seized, and practices ruined by announcements in local news media. Compounding such brutal tactics, chain pharmacies have compiled high prescriber lists, blacklisting "top prescribing" physicians and denying prescription pain medication to their patients.