I think you are ignoring the faction of people who were prescribe painkillers for legitimate pain, but the doctors didn’t deal with the possibility of addiction responsibly. There are a lot of people who had terrible pain, and get addicted.
When you are taking pain killers and you are not in pain, you might be addicted or you might be afraid of the pain returning.
But the idea of someone who is in horrible pain being addicted because he wants the pain to stop is BS.
I know it is the story they want to tell you but it rarely happens in real life. People do not like being in pain. It is easier to write them off as "addicts" then face the fact that we are not giving them pain meds in high enough doses.
Do you have chronic pain nick
Methinks that’s a negative
Lots of drugs have addiction both physical and mental
SSRI
HORMONES
ASPIRIN EVEN
TOBACCO or NICOTINEAND BOOZE
STEROIDS
if addiction is the benchmark we are going to have a problem in healthcare with Much more than pain relief
A crisis actually
Man some folks just can’t stand if folks feel anything chill
When taken “As Prescribed” the addiction rate is less than 1%, and i5s not a true addiction, but rather a dependence, which is different than addiction. It is when patients take it upon themselves to up the amount, without approval or sule4vision of docs, for greater pain relief, or to get high that they become dependent on opioid prescribed by docs. Those who die by and large mix them with wither alcohol or other drugs.