"Somebody in Washington needs to start listening to the professionals who deal with the dual problems of pain and addiction"

Would these be the same 'professionals' working hand in glove with the pharmaceutical industry and their advertisers to prescribe particular company's drugs as opposed to their competitors?

Time Magazine:
 Doctors received $3.5 billion from pharmaceutical companies and device makers over a five month period in 2013, according to figures the federal government released this week. The massive dataset includes 4.2 million individual payments made to physicians (including dentists) for things like meals, consulting fees and royalty payments for devices they have helped invent. The new data includes 360,000 doctors by name.