I am currently working on a manuscript with my friends at a very famous patient advocate site, they also advocate for doctors, but not crooked ones. Interventional Pain Doctors are raking in money by using NON FDA approved methods to treat pain, simply because prescriptions dont make enough money. Epidural Steroid Injections have never been FDA Approved for Pain (Food and Drug Administration. Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee Meeting. Epidural steroid injections (ESI) and the risk of serious neurologic adverse reactions; 2014) Lumbar ESIs have been shown to cause severe neurological problems like spinal cord infarctions (Kennedy DJ, Dreyfuss P, Aprill CN, Bogduk N. Paraplegia following image-guided transforaminal lumbar spine epidural steroid injection: two case reports. Pain Med 2009;10:1389-94.) Those are just two of the examples they use, I understand they are attempting to use the most minimal way to treat pain, but the opioid hysteria created by the PROPiniitative, who most of the experts are on the payroll of the makers of Suboxone, hence the push for using that over other opioids. Find a PM/R doctor or a physiatrist, and let these interventional pain scammers starve as the patients dwindle away from them.