Can't say in all cases but I had a friend that suffered a series of debilitating injuries and was on a pain regiment of opiates... the rules started to change on those Rx's so he was cut off - doctors would no longer write the scrips.
He started buying the pills off the street; expensive & dangerous to do so. Someone in this supply chain suggested heroin - cheaper and way more "effective".
His funeral is this Wednesday, 6pm at Our Lady of Calvary in Philadelphia
Whoa, holy smoke, so sorry to hear that. Oh God that is terrible. Why would the doc cut him off like that though? Don’t they wean a patient off? I guess they can’t though, I mean they can prescribe less but that doesn’t mean the patient will take less. He must have been in a lot of pain to be prescribed opiates though. I smashed my kneecap about 27 years ago which was pain I couldn’t even describe, and not even then did they give me that stuff and that was in the 80s.