Hmmm, do YOU suffer from intractable pain? Probably not is my guess. Easy to bloviate about something you don't personally experience. Live with pain for more than 3 months with no viable relief, bet you'd be singing a different tune.
On the contrary, I have suffered for many years at a time with constant pain, I finally defeated it without medicine, if I had depended on doctors I would have become addicted to painkillers as many that I have known have done. I had an accident on the seventeenth of March, less than two months ago, that left me with a broken small toe on my left foot and a compression fracture of my first lumbar vertebrae. I was up on my feet within two minutes, walked one hundred yards to my front door, took a hot shower and rode to the emergency room in my own car with a neighbor driving. I was back at my part time job thirteen days later. I took less pain medicine than many people take for a headache. The first of June is my seventy third birthday.