Oh good grief.
If you smash a time release pill to get it all in one burst, you just decided you wanted to violate what your doctor ordered. Don’t blame either pharma or the doctor for that.
I’m having a hard time getting worked up about all this opioid addiction. I herniated a disc in my neck. The pain was unbearable and before I knew it I was addicted to vicadin. When the pain started easing up and I started taking less drugs I started going through withdrawals. So I flushed the rest of them down the toilet and did full withdrawals for a week. And that was that. Haven’t, and won’t, take them now.
If I had unending, unbearable pain I’d take them again, addiction or not. Which is worse? The pain or the addicition?