‘I Am an Opioid Moderate, and I Am Seen as a Villain By Both Sides’

Michael Schatman, PhD, is the director of research and network development at Boston Pain Care, an adjunct clinical assistant professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pain Research. Here he discusses pain medicine in the midst of the opioid crisis and the rise of medical marijuana.

Considering the consistent public pressures against opioid medication, what is the current state of opioid prescribing?

Michael Schatman, PhD: