What a frikkin joke, If I didn’t have the opiates, I immediately went into shock and dropped, I took as much as I wanted for 3 months, usually 50 Percodan every 3 days, YES I was ADDICTED. They Knew it, it was done intentionally, the accident I had required it. But After the Surgery I went through the withdrawls in the Hospital. Needless to say I rarely take Pain Pills ever since, but when I do, it is an Opiate, usually Vicodin.
It's temporary. It passes in time as you recover.
I don't think there is a pain pill or oral pain medication that actually works these days anyway. They used to keep you in the hospital to manage acute pain so they could medically manage your condition. Now the hospitals are not allowed to admit patients for much of anything. Everything is cattle call outpatient surgery. Insurance companies and HMO organizations refuse to allow you to stay in a hospital. They pay the hospitals a bonus to not admit you, and if they do it's only authorized on a daily basis at the say-so of an insurance company that calls the hospital up to three times a day trying to get you out.
Fifty Percodan every three days? What, are you Winona Ryder?