Pain, Addiction, and Public Health
Lynn R Webster, MDThis Substack is about clear, evidence-based writing on pain, addiction, and the public policies that affect millions of patients and the general public every day.
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We Cut Opioid Prescriptions. The Overdose Crisis Moved
The crisis changed form. The despair remained.
For more than a decade, America’s central strategy for addressing the opioid crisis was simple: Reduce the supply of prescription opioids.
In one narrow sense, the strategy worked. Opioid pre...
When Supply Falls, Demand Moves
Same person. Different state. Different risk.
For years, the opioid crisis has been explained as a supply story.
Too many pills. Too many prescriptions. Too much pharmaceutical marketing. Too many doctors willing to write the script.
The...
Oregon's Drug Decriminalization
Oregon’s drug decriminalization under Measure 110 has been widely labeled a “failed experiment.” But what does the data actually show?
New research published in Academia Global and Public Health (April 2026), along with a 2023 JAMA Psychia...
Journalism Needs a Baseline of Trust
Journalism’s first obligation is not virality but to truth
In February 1968, after the Tet Offensive, CBS anchor Walter Cronkite traveled to Vietnam, surveyed the devastation, and delivered a sober on-air assessment: the war had reached a...
The Pain Patients We Do Not Count
Alone in the waiting room
James Chumbley did not write to me to make a political argument. He wrote because he was desperate. (Image above features a model)
James is 64 years old (note photo above is a stock image and not a photo of James...
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I’m Lynn R. Webster, MD, FACPM, FASAM, a physician, researcher, and advocate with more than four decades of experience in pain medicine, addiction science, sleep-pain interactions, and public health policy.
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