Hi Oreowing!!!! Welcome to SR. You have already made such a HUGE step...
realizing you don't or cant live like that anymore is very important. I too am here because of opiates, and i too got my first taste of them from a hospital...
It can be done. I tapered....I had help, but it was successful.
It is such a freeing feeling to wake each day without my first thought being "how many pills do i have today" and "Oh my God, I am running low"!
They do not consume my thoughts anymore...
Stick around, find a way to get off of them (the previous posts are good ideas) and then the hard part; STAY OFF OF THEM!
I wish you the best and will keep you in my thoughts....