I handle the pain from dental work very well. Over three days, I took two tablets in total. When I tried to return the remainder, they told me to drop them off at Walgreens. When I asked why there were so many tablets, the dentist said not everyone handles the pain the way you do.
In the early Eighties, a Navy Dentist cut out a wisdom tooth. Since we are already doing this, he asked if I wanted him to remove the remaining two. I may as well get it all done at once, right? I said go for it (I got an extra day of no duty). Before I left, they gave me a painkiller and another shot of Novocaine. They handed me a pill container with two painkillers— one for that night when the Novocaine wore off and one for the next day. I was off work the day they removed the teeth and the next day. After that, I had to return to duty and could not take painkillers. They gave me Tylenol.
Last year, I had a crown break and needed a root canal to prepare for the implant. This time, I received Tylenol and Ibuprofen. Two Tylenol and three Ibuprofen together twice a day for pain. After all the oxy lawsuits, doctors stopped issuing the oxy that addicted so many to opioids and then killed them as they sought pain relief through illicit drugs.
Some pain requires fentanyl patches or opioids because people are at a stage where addiction is not a long-term concern. That's a different situation entirely. I even have mixed emotions about giving morphine when people are in hospice. My father started taking small doses for pain, and the rapid decline began. I wonder if morphine aided in that decline. Before taking the morphine he was lucid and seemed himself, once he began the morphine we lost him even before he died.
You have found out what few people understand. We do have euthanasia in this country. It’s done with ever increasing doses of morphine to make the person “comfortable”. The cause of death from this approach is described in some vague way, implying bodily shut down.