Don't you think that undergoing brain surgery (Cochlear implants are brain surgery) requires numerous tests that would have shown a massive drug habit? How about the high level of pain medications that a drug addicted patient would require to get ANY relief from the post-surgery pain? None of this raised any flags with doctors and other health professionals who are required to report such findings.
now, Tylenol can be harmful to one's liver, but again, perhaps they checked his liver enzymes, and perhaps they did not....
you have to understand what pressure doctors , nurses and hospitals are under these days to RELIEVE ALL PAIN AND DOCUMENT IT......we have to record what the pt. says about his pain, and show what we did for it, and then how it helped or not....
no doctor is ever going to refuse his pt. pain meds. at all, even when the doctor knows he is dealing with an addict, because the legal ramifications of leaving your pt. in pain is looked at in a worse light than over prescribing, even to addicts....imo....