You need to pay more attention to how people are talking, and the way they claim that doctors are too cavalier in "handing out" opioid prescriptions. I also have chronic pain. between Crohns disease, severe arthritis, and degenerative disk disease, I live with pain every day. I don't remember the time I slept for more that 3 hours uninterrupted. But I don't take my prescription for Vicodin unless I absolutely have to.
The government has already made it harder for me to get opioids I often need to be able to move without crying. I can't get a prescription for more than 30 days at a time. There's no such thing as a refill. I need to go the the pain specialist's office, taking time off of work and paying $60 for the office visit, in order to take the signed prescription from the doctor to the pharmacy.
My biggest fear is that in the name of the people who are killing themselves on addictive pain killers, the government is going to make it incredibly difficult for the people who live with chronic pain the drugs they need to make life more bearable.
Mark