I really do hope that abuse is cracked down on more as I always get dirty looks just for filling my pain pills at my pharmacy. I am 28, I have really bad pain due to muscle spasms and other conditions, so bad that I have to go to the ER if it gets too bad. The people abusing pain killers are making it harder for the people who actually need them. I exercise as much as I can, I do what my doctor tells me, I take over the counter pain killers like ibuprofen when those are enough to make me able to site in a hot bath and not cry in pain, just so I don't have to put any sort of codeine in my body.
But because some ass hats want to abuse pain killers, they are becoming harder and harder to get legitimately. Last time I switched doctors they had to see me go to the ER 3 times for pain just because they did not want to give a 27-year-old at the time pain killers.
It is a really sad reality that I live in when I cannot get access to medications I need to be able to walk without extreme pain because doctors are scared to prescribe my pain pills because of so many people abusing them.