opiophobic shield

What doctors and more often physician assistants put up when someone with legitimate chronic pain has exhausted all other options aside from opioids; potent narcotic analgesics. The reason for it is usually the provider has been harassed by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) into thinking they have some "quota" or max number of times they can write for opioids which is bogus. The shield usually consists of blatant lies to patients such as: "I actually can't prescribe narcotics..." "There is too much of a risk of addiction with that product so I'm not going to prescribe it" "Its too addictive" "I'm not allowed" Or commonly just a blank stare as they look at you as if you just asked for 900mg of heroin in tablet form simultaneously coming up with a way to avoid the topic. Ask any chronic pain patient how many times they've had to arm wrestle physicians for better quality of life.