@scruffy1
I do understand what you are saying. And I am sorry for your friend, that is an awful thing to have happen. It's terrible that anyone dies from something as senseless as a drug overdose, particularly young people with so much potential ahead of them. But if you think this "war" created by perpetrated by politicians is the answer to that problem, just look around. That war was lost the day it began. That is how it appears to me. Again, I am sorry for your friend's loss. Hank

@scruffy I deeply apologize for your pain. I do not mean to minimize your suffering by my trying to obtain pain meds that will allow me to have any semblance of life whatsoever. Sometimes the pain is so bad I can only walk to the bathroom and back. Please accept my sympathies.

I lost my only sibling, my 40 yr old brother to opioids - BUT he was an addict - i am not and this Pain Management stuff is simply a mean scam to make some heartless rich people and corporations richer. I am now 80 and was thrown out of one that was full of people like me on crutches and canes and walkers, not young junkies. I became so depressed over my baby brother's suicide that i became disabled and had to end a 30+ year career that i loved. But I believe all of the genuinely in pain should have access to the meds we need without all the show and tell Rx bottles and expensive urine tests and co-pays. I had my first Spine surgery in 1982 and pain diagnoses in 1986 at another famous medical facility, about 8 other surgeries and i have to endure this BS along with constant unbearable pain.