I detoxed over seven years ago to boost my immune system. In the two incidences since then (dental and shoulder injury) doctors gave me prescriptions for these poisons. I refused them, and they lectured me! So I filled the prescriptions just to shut up the physician-pushers and threw them away.
If people are not expected to deal with pain, of course that's a first step to addiction.
Amazing that the docs lectured you about refusing meds. They really are pill pushers. I could understand pushing vitamins or something thought to add to your health, but pain meds…yikes.
If you've never had to deal with chronic pain, the above statement sounds reasonable. Chronic pain beats you down over time, taking away any enjoyment in life. Except while I was in the hospital, getting IV morphine, or later, oxycontin, I haven't gotten more than about 2 hours of sleep at a stretch in more than a decade. Every time I shift position while I'm sleeping, the pain from moving wakes me up. I have to live with the pain and poor sleep patterns because I can't take the opioids I need to help get the pain really under control. I can't work if I've taken the pain meds that I should be taking. I can't even do moderate exercise without taking vicodin. Life really sucks, and frankly, I'm really looking forward to death. I'm not going to commit suicide, but I hope I die soon.
Mark