And, I'll take small issue with your remark about the "choice" and "addicts" comment. Many people who are physically dependent (to a point) don't have much of a choice either. I'd actually hesitate to say that I'm an addict, but would wholeheartedly affirm that I've been dependent upon opiates for a year, but my behavior has not displayed the signs of addiction: no doctor shopping, no stockpiling meds, no taking meds outside of parameters of the prescription. I'm just saying this because being in pain management and on pain meds does not necessarily make one an addict imo. I want to make that clear in case someone who actually needs the meds needs to go to a PM doc. If they are in genuine pain, they should go without fear of automatically becoming an opiate addict. The docs out my way monitor us pretty closely.