Big change to make it harder for patients to get pain killers like Vicodin

[Feral Child]

193. Addiction isn't subjective.

Sure, people often continue pain-meds to ease chronic pain.

Some continue using them, after the condition causing their pain is resolved, to avoid the pain of withdrawal. ALL opiates have a significant chance of ensuring a physical dependency or "addiction". Withdrawal, if unsupervised, can be catastrophic, up to and including death. It also hurts like a motherfucker.

PT may be effective in combating some types of pain but certainly not all.

Again, the antics of BP and the FDA/DEA have nothing to do with preventing addiction to prescribed painkillers. They only want to insure that we take profitable meds; hence, blocking access to simple opiates and providing only high-dollar synthetics that drug companies hold patents on. They prey on American puritanism to ensure their profit margin.