I have been wondering this for about a year; it's hard not to, when I have been trying to do the insurance dance and they keep sending me away with no hope of relief while telling me that I am a candidate for long term medication relief (i.e., time released morphine, anxiety meds, emotional therapy to assist with accepting my pain and past traumas...then..."oh your hour is up...see you in six weeks...") with no options as to where to go for the next step...I imagine by now they must suspect I go the OP route, but I am not about to tell them and give them a reason to call me a drug seeker when I am in my mind a survivor of an insane system...if they did start with local Pain Management, I would yes, inform my OP....they are who I feel more loyal to....
But to return to Mr. Bodine's theory....how can I help but think that that is why the DEA took down its "co-operative sheet in August...and proceeded to go after docs with a vengenance...
I have said on other forums, that I am the worst cynic; a disappointed idealist. I believe (don't freak here people, I would have made an excellent policewoman...I know people without judging them; and what I know first and foremost is this; FOLLOW THE MONEY! ALWAYS BUT ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY! DEA Funding must, IMOO, depend on black and white determinations of what makes a drug user...to introduce the poor soul with non malignant pain who will live indefinitely, needing morphine, all manner of meds that could be called a "sanity cocktail" in addition to their therapies and faith and whatever else helps, is to introduce a puzzling model of human being aided by "illicit' meds; it simply will not do, you see, to complicate the situation.

So we are pushed (remember there are many out there still without knowledge of ROPs or courage even to attempt to order.) We are pushed from PCP to "scrip doc" ---at which point we can be harangued without guilt by the arresting agent that surely we knew by the very nature of our choice of doctor---
and then of course we have the methadone clinic or...the dealer...I could go on but my heart fails me...you see, I just got a glimpse of all that still awaits so many of us, if OPs ever are felled; perish the thought...and Mr. Bodine, I am afraid to say I agree with you, we are being herded into a moral area where we are forced to hang our heads and say, "yes, I knew that was wrong," and "yes I chose that doctor based on my chances to get _______________, or ______________________. Guilty without murder.