The medical industry has jumped the shark

[iscooterliberally]

53. I'm an old meat sack of broken bones.

I crashed my Harley in South Florida right at the height of the pill mill craze. I was in the hospital for a week and and surgery on both arms. After that healed and the casts came off I went in for my ACL surgery. I had to withdraw from opiates at the end and honestly I would take that over a hang over any day of the week. I had some cravings and looked into one of the pill mills. They told me all I had to do was bring in my MRI scans and $300 cash and they would give my a 90 day supply. My first thought was, $300 for about $30 worth of pills? Fuck that. I guess I was just physically dependent rather than addicted. As an adult I can handle all sorts of things much more dangerous than this. I've learned to keep moving and get some moderate exercise in to manage pain. It would be nice if as an adult over the age of 21 I could walk into a pharmacy and buy a handful of pain pills without a prescription. At least I would know that I'm getting what's on the label rather than something laced with fentanyl or even worse. Our government is totally insane when it comes to drugs. I also hate the fact that addicts are called junkies. It's so unfair.