Letter: Opioid lawsuit targets good physicians

I was appalled to read in yesterday’s Salt Lake Tribune that Summit County Attorney Margaret Olson is suing Perry Fine and Lynn Webster. She could not have picked two more inappropriate targets. Dr. Fine and Dr. Webster are recognized authorities in the management of difficult pain problems and as such are part of the solution to the opiate epidemic not part of the problem.

There is no doubt that our state and nation are in the midst of a severe opiate crisis and that forceful action is needed to combat it, but it is important to avoid overreaction. For some patients opioids are the only effective treatment for pain; they will be the victims if physicians are deterred from appropriate opiate…