There are several members on THIS SITE, that claim they need prescription opioids for lifetime. So take them at their word. Doctors continue to give such patients, their drugs.
How magnanimous of you Many overdose death are people who started with a "temporary" legitimate need, got cut off by doctors, and turned to street heroin.
Many overdose deaths are people who started out on marijuana for a temporary high and transitioned to street heroin looking for a longer, bigger highSee, I can do it too!
Somehow I am rather incredulous that Hendrix, Joplin or any other addicts like them started out on pain meds prescribed by doctors. And they probably screwed up and killed themselves mixing drugs for as bigger high.[/size]
@GtHawkHawk, if people haven't had pain every day, they can't imagine it, and say people don't need pain meds. If these people who don't think I need pain meds, were me this morning, they would be scratching on the doc's door and begging for it. I normally take one hydrocodone in the morning for fibro muscle pain, however, it was so bad, I took two, which doc says is permissible when this happens. Before taking those pills, if I had to leave the house, I could not have - there was too much muscle pain to put on clothes - I stayed in my PJs.
I have never felt a "high", whatever that is, or felt "down", whatever that is. The pills work on the pain and I am able to mentally work on my computer without feeling anything like a "high" or "down". The two pills worked on the pain and I was able to put on clothes, and make the bed. I could not do anything until that pain was lessened.
I have taken these pills for years and they have never made me feel "wonderful"; they just stop the pain. That is their job. My job is to take them so I can do MY job, which is writing. If my mind was knocked nuts by pills, I could not write - that has never happened - I am totally in control of my mind when I take one or two of these pills. Seldom do I take two, but I did this morning.
Doctors have to go through so much paperwork to write these prescriptions, they aren't going to hand out pills willy-nilly. My doc hates to go through this process, but he knows I need these pills.
Some others on this forum use these pills or ones like them because they have to function, too, and they can't without having less pain.