The real issue here...is that about 30 percent of the American public over 65...are addicted to pain killers. I used to laugh about this suggested number...but in the past five years...you see more and more cases where doctors discovered that a patient was seeing two or three different doctors and getting the same prescription over and over.
Yep, my Mother-in-law has been on them for a decade and went thru withdrawal when we moved her from CA to the midwest and the Dr. here refused to supply. She eventually found another source from a different Dr.