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If you are in so much pain you can't wipe your ass, you aren't taking enough opiates.
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Unobtanium.
Regular folks are ending up with ghetto problems and heroine addictions, because they went looking for cheap opiates to manage their pain after DEA began harassing doctors for every Vicodin prescription.
DEA claimed hydrocodone was the most misplaced prescription, so now it can only be prescribed for 30 days with no refills. The script has to be hand written. It has to be hand picked up. It has to be hand delivered to the pharmacy. The pharmacy has to check with DEA to fill it. It takes 4-8 hours to get authorization to fill. You better be all fixed up after that script, because they can't write any more. The doctors are telling post op surgical patients to use OTC stuff.
This is a pet peeve of mine, because my wife's stomach is getting wrecked by OTC meds that don't work to control her pain, and there isn't shit we or the doctors can do.
"Sorry, you're just fucked, because DEA made a non-legislative ruling."