Dr. Drew Pinsky

Thank you.

It was a time when we were also fighting the excessive opiate prescribing, the opioid epidemic so-called.

And my peers, again, were giving pain medicines to everybody.

It's the same exact thing as what we're dealing with here.

Everybody got the same thing, 60 Vicodin, 120 Vicodin, just because they said, I twisted my ankle, my back hurts a little bit.

And that was deadly for my patients, deadly.

And they were being killed just at an incredible level.

So, yeah, that was a time when if people didn't do well, that's usually the reason why.

And it wasn't until they started putting doctors in prison for overprescribing that all of a sudden the whole thing stopped.

Just one day, boom, stopped.

And they went, oh, maybe this isn't the way.

Oh, maybe.

Oh.

After...

And by the way, the 10 years or 15 years that had gone on out of control, I was sanctioned by the board, the Department of Mental Health, the state medical side, my own hospital administration.

Same playbook as what you're dealing with now.

And it is...

And there's no, I'm sorry, there's no nothing at the end of it.

Trust me, it just moves on.

It's interesting.