You don’t know what medical treatment he is under. Under the care of legitimate pain management, you may not be able to tell what he is taking.
In fact, I’ve noticed patients who don’t take their pain meds often act more “distracted” than ones that do. Once a person is habituated you often can’t tell they are taking anything. Pain is distracting.
And simply because he has to be helped doesn’t mean he’s not on regular meds. There are people out there in such bad shape that they have to be helped even though they are taking regular cocktails.
Pain is a serious problem in our society - I think so much of it comes from all the auto injuries people have throughout their lifetime. They are far more traumatic than people realize. It’s a growing medical field. That, and to get totally off the subject, diabetic endocrinology. That one is going to go off the charts in the next few years.
Sorry I wan’t clear. My assumption is that Phil isn’t dosing himself up with everything he can grab. I would guess that he is following a prescribed pain management regimen which allows him to function well and helps deal with the pain as best as can be done. It’s the stars that chug bourbon as a self-prescribed pain management program that annoy me. As best I can determine, Phil is not one of those.