Gounder and Jangi both agree that patients should try alternative methods to relieve pain and not solely rely on opioids. Gounder and Jangi both recommend alternative methods like message, physical therapy, and acupuncture to help patients relieve their pain. The two authors also agree that because pharmaceutical companies aggressively marketed their pain pills, it helped fuel the epidemic. Both authors blame the companies for accusing doctors of not treating patient pain properly, which in turn helped the companies who make opioids gain money (Gounder) (Jangi). However, Gounder defends physicians, while Jangi, a doctor himself, takes responsibility for his role in the opioid problem. Jangi states that overprescribing opioids is something that doctors have gotten so used to doing. All things considered, both authors agree that alternative methods would be much better than just prescribing opioids but they don’t agree on whose fault it
Gounder and Jangi both agree that patients should try alternative methods to relieve pain and not solely rely on opioids. Gounder and Jangi both recommend alternative methods like message, physical therapy, and acupuncture to help patients relieve their pain. The two authors also agree that because pharmaceutical companies aggressively marketed their pain pills, it helped fuel the epidemic. Both authors blame the companies for accusing doctors of not treating patient pain properly, which in turn helped the companies who make opioids gain money (Gounder) (Jangi). However, Gounder defends physicians, while Jangi, a doctor himself, takes responsibility for his role in the opioid problem. Jangi states that overprescribing opioids is something that doctors have gotten so used to doing. All things considered, both authors agree that alternative methods would be much better than just prescribing opioids but they don’t agree on whose fault it