text: What started out as guidelines by the CDC has rapidly transpired into law across the nation & Hawaii has become no exception. What our legislature & mainstream media need to understand in this opioid debacle is that prescription (legal prescription) opioid use is not the problem; addiction is. When stats were used for the guidelines, they didn't even have a means to check for fentanyl from death certificates. The CDC has admitted, albeit quietly, that there has been a sharp increase in fentanyl & heroin over prescription opioids after they changed their methods of analyzing data. There is so much conflicting data out there that you can have 4 estimates at any one given time of how many Americans died of an overdose in a given year. Not all pain is the same & you can't have a one size fits all approach, so please let our physicians dictate what we should be taking and how much. Don't make pain patient's the collateral damage in this war where the problem lays with ILLICIT drug users.