I understand exactly what you're saying and it's a shame you're currently being downvoted. People up in arms against opioids and in favor of all the restriction

I understand exactly what you're saying and it's a shame you're currently being downvoted. People up in arms against opioids and in favor of all the restrictions that keep people suffering have clearly never experienced chronic pain. I don't want to downplay addiction risk, but everyone I have ever seen get addicted had it happen with severe mitigating circumstances like job loss, general financial insecurity, family history of addiction, things that made them susceptible. It was never just the pain and the painkillers. I took oxycodone for three years and never got addicted. It helped get me through the absolute worst years of my life until enough surgeries and physical therapy finally got me basically functional again. I guess I'm just lucky my doctors and insurers never gave into the pressure not to prescribe them, but I don't even know now what it would be like given the present state of legislation. My wife suffers from this tremendously on the other side, adult ADHD treated successfully and easily with Adderall, but it can't be filled out of state, can't be filled in advance. Makes it awfully difficult to work a job that requires 25% travel.