You'll realize how much it sucks when you're young and end up in pain and nobody will give you anything. I had a tooth become infected. Tooth pulp, nerve, bone

You'll realize how much it sucks when you're young and end up in pain and nobody will give you anything. I had a tooth become infected. Tooth pulp, nerve, bone, everything. It was so inflamed/infected that when I finally could get in to see a dentist the local anesthetic wouldn't have any effect and large parts of the root canal were done with partial sensation. It's 100% the worst thing I've ever experienced. I was a fully grown man sitting on the floor in my bathroom crying on the phone to my mother asking what to do. Dentist told me to take ibuprofen. When I went to the hospital because putting a bullet through my face was starting to sound preferable to waiting for the dentist, they told me to take ibuprofen. When I tried to purchase Tylenol 1s from a pharmacy (an OTC drug here), I got treated like a drug addict by the pharmacist (which didn't use to happen until some news station did a story about how pharmacists weren't really screening people trying to purchase a legal, over the counter medication...). I get that it's a problem, but so is pain. If there's no alternative for pain management, then let me risk an opioid addiction, please?