Chronic pain is very tough and opioids shouldn't just be thrown at it. I've known two people with chronic pain that have gotten addicted to their pain medicatio

Chronic pain is very tough and opioids shouldn't just be thrown at it. I've known two people with chronic pain that have gotten addicted to their pain medication... then they didn't even work anymore. So they ended up with addition in addition to their chronic pain. This outcome in a very very real (and very common) concern. These people didn't want to become addicts and weren't taking Oxy for thrills...