After reading the information about limiting pain meds to a 3 day, it appears to me that it's dealing with acute post op pain, not chronic pain. Unfortunately, government seems to ignore the statistics that show that prescription opioid abuse accounts for 1% of the cases. The problem is that this doesn't address the fact that the other 99% are heroin and meth and cocaine addictions/abuse, so it's confusing and concerning that the focus seems to be on a medication that has been treating chronic pain effectively for centuries. Jeff Sessions said recently that if Tylenol isn't enough for acute pain post op, patients need to tough it out. An ignorant, insensitive, uneducated, ill informed statement,if ever there was one.
Jim