You’re 100% correct. Doctor’s are compelled to view patients as potential addicts and are limited to the amount of pain medication they can proscribe.
I’ve recently had foot surgery and practically had to beg my doctor for additional medication because the pain in my foot was intense.
There is hardly a class I despise more than self-appointed , moralistic drug warriors who run around shaming people into just accepting pain at the expense of ‘’becoming an addict’’.
I worked with a lady whose mother was an OB/GYN when the majority were men. When she went on vacation, she wrote scripts for her patients because the men tended to go light on pain killers for women after birth.