You're not going to get addicted from a single Rx. They'll give you, what, 30 pills? You might like it. You might want it. But you're not going to get addicted from that one prescription.
You'll start seeking additional prescription refills. When your doc starts balking at refills you'll start shopping other docs. Etc. Etc.
Worst case scenario: after you run out of legitimate/legal/quasi legal options, you look for illegal opiates. I suspect that's where much of our heroin use is coming from.
There was a period where doctors were required to treat pain as a symptom, and gave pain pills because of a legal obligation/liability. But now that the medical community has seen the affect of that philosophy, they're backtracking. But in the final analysis, the pain pill addict, by the time they become truly addicted, knows full well what they're doing, and it's up to them to stop. Nobody, and I mean nobody, has your best interests at heart more than you.
It's not the doctors fault, entirely. If you knew what they go through, what with belligerent, demanding, intimidating patients, you could see why many docs simply acquiesce. A sharp doc will require a drug screen on a new patient and, you'd be amazed at the cocktail of drugs they find.
“You’re not going to get addicted from a single Rx. They’ll give you, what, 30 pills?”
30 doses of a strong opiate is quite sufficient to develop an addiction.
research the Joint Commission on national pain protocols and how the push to treat pain was MANDATED....drs had little choice and little discretion....neither did hospitals...
thus, the widespread prescribing of opioids...
however, our problem today is more a problem of drug seekers using any means...frequent ER visits, vague symptoms, vague injuries, easy access to disability...and if that don't work, steal from the old people who seem to stockpile drugs, or rob and steal so you can buy drugs....
you would not believe how many people get early disability for knee or back problems and get free money and free drugs...
we are being scammed....