About twenty years ago doctors were receiving ominous warnings from some licensing authorities that they must prescribe adequate pain relief for patients in pain. This was around the time a certain drug company was pushing the same line and paying "pain specialists" to give CME lectures on this topic.

I wonder if Dr. Theman's CPSA was one of those licensing authorities who were scaring doctors into prescribing narcotic medication that was not necessary but was being demanded by patients.