I think far too potent drugs are routinely prescribed to folks who have no business taking them and no idea of the potential consequences.
I’ve seen a county sheriff get addicted to oxycontin after a fairly routine knee surgery. 50 pill counts (long enough to create addiction concerns) were handed out for fairly minor pain.
Lot of judgmental folks with no clue posting comments here. Hope they and their family are never touched by addiction of any type, but do hope they’d participate in a church outreach to addicts and learn to help others. It is truly a ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ epidemic.
I haven’t seen doctors handing out pain meds like that since they started cracking down on them about 5 years ago. I had a very painful foot surgery and the doc prescribed me 5, yes 5, pain pills. I took my tramadol instead.
Another major surgery the doc prescribed 10. I took a few of those.
The docs here are pretty stingy with the pain meds now. I was waiting for hubby at a pain management doc and saw a gal come out griping because he wouldn’t give her anything but tramadol. It was obvious she was med shopping even to me.