ever wonder why we have such problems with prescription drug abuse - especially pain killers?
It used to be that when you had an operation, you stayed in the hospital for two weeks - the main reason being that you needed strong pain killers during that first part of your recovery - AND THOSE PAIN MEDS COULD ONLY BE GIVEN IN A HOSPITAL - once you were discharged, those pain meds were not available to you. But when hospitals started shortening the length of stays they allowed, they also got the laws changed where those prescriptions were now available outside the hospital.
Kind of reminds me of the Manhattan Project inventing the atom bomb yet having the naivete to think it would remain only in the United States military....
The common man once again has to deal with the havoc wreaked by the "forward thinking" of the "experts."