[longfellowsmuse]

Correct. I broke my foot last October. The first 3 days after the break it hurt ( a lot) and I am no wimp. Had all four of my children without any drugs. But for the broken foot I needed some pain relief for the first 72 hours. There is a place for opioid drugs in the emergency room. People with legitimate pain shouldn’t have to suffer because of the druggies. Let’s have some common sense here.

[PghBaldy]

I agree.

[duckbutt]

I have to agree —if you're truly treating pain, you lessen the changes of addiction once the pain stops and you stop taking the meds.
For example, I had radiation and chemo to the neck and throat. Had 2nd degree burns in mouth, throat, gums, etc. topical anesthetics only worked about an hour. Cleveland Clinic prescribed morphine. The only pharmacy that could fill it was CC —none of the others would touch it. Taking two tablespoonful of the liquid morphine allowed me to sleep about 2 hours. But once it was gone, which coincided to the end of chemo and radio, it was feeling better. Couldn't eat anything solid for 6 months; but the pain was not as excruciating.
If you've ever had pizza cheese stick to the roof of your mouth and burn you, you have an idea of what it was like for months —and if that had happened to your whole mouth.
20 plus years later and I still can't eat anything spicy, or vinegar based.....but hell, I'm alive.,...