“a small few would suffer and become addicts”
I was on HEAVY doses of oxycontin and fentanyl patches for about a year for cervical disc problems.
Withdrawal from them was very unpleasant for about two weeks, but it is not life threatening.
Withdrawal from opioids is way over dramatized by the media, and insinuates that every person that takes adequate amounts of narcotics for pain relief will turn into a “raving dope fiend”, and go crazy or die if they don’t get their “fix”.
Utter Bullshit.
The way this whole business is handled in this country is a G__D___ disgrace.
I spent 6 days on a morphine pump a few years back....hell, i TOLD them to get the damnthing out of my arm, could not stand it anymore...hurt like hell after they took it out, went on some kind of pill for 2 weeks after that ( personally i do not like being zoned out the way narcotics do to you ) but being allergic to aspirin i have no choice....