[vpintheak]

A huge part of the problem is that doctors prescribe opioids instead of attempting treatment. Real treatment. People get addicted instead of healed.
The VA prescribed me some crap and I said no thanks! I found treatment and healing outside of the VA system. Still have my problems for sure, but I’m not an addicted drooling zombie.

[Little Bill]

I was operated on for bladder cancer in 2010 at the local VA hospital. I told them I did NOT want opiates for pain.

They gave me a bunch, took one and flushed the rest down the toilet.

In 2008 I suffered a broken hip, more opiates refused them, hurt for a while but it got better.

I grew up in a city that was destroyed by drugs.