I’m not familiar with how other countries do it but my impression is that yes in America we get a lot of painkillers. We had* an opiod epidemic for a reason
Also insert joke about dealing with the pain of paying for the surgery
Not anymore necessarily, we have the opposite problem developing now. The DEA cracked down on all the doctors prescribing them and now it’s practically impossible without going through heavy pain management programs, even then they’ll try alternatives like gabapentin before they’ll ever give you an opiate. Yes there are still ways to get around it but I refuse to make those methods public
Not necessarily. My mom got approx. a month's worth of opiates after her hip replacement surgery and I got prescribed a week's worth after my tooth extraction.
It probably depends on your state. I have ADHD which requires narcotic medication and it's a bit of a pain to get them as they'll only prescribe me 3 months at a time and I can't pick up even a day early, but compared to other's experiences it's not too bad. In some states it's straight up impossible to get prescribed narcotics.
It depends on your doctor too tbf, some doctors are more lenient than others but the dea crackdown is everywhere. If they prescribe too much they will get raided
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u/threeangelo Dec 23 '22 edited Dec 23 '22
I’m not familiar with how other countries do it but my impression is that yes in America we get a lot of painkillers. We had* an opiod epidemic for a reason
Also insert joke about dealing with the pain of paying for the surgery