Piss test before starting opioid therapy, searching up people on the state portal for previous drug use, prescription or criminal offences, Nonpharmacologic therapy being forced onto everyone even in cases where it provides no benefit. Yeah physiotherapy is great for a ton of conditions, it helps me a lot, but a cancer patient is not going to benefit much from that when their pain is coming from chemo and their tumours.

Stuff like this is just going to fuel the drug crisis because people will turn to illegal hard drugs. Despite doctors in the US prescribing around 50% less opioids now than they did 8 years ago, opioid related deaths and overdoses are still rising, because people now are just take street opioids