Drug testing is often corrupted, btw. My ex-sister-in-law supervised such trials, and was often told to look the other way, rather than scrap an on-gong trial, when the participants did things that contaminated the findings. She ended up black-listed for not sitting quietly and saying nothing.

I take oxycodin, or rather, I have some which I hate taking. My back is so screwed up, it can't be fixed anymore. Still I keep trying, and I just can't bring myself to to take meds to the extent that I get hooked. The side-effects are worse than the pain, as far as I am concerned. I think people who do get addicted know what they're doing, and choose the painkiller over the pain. They may have little choice because they have to keep functioning, but addiction doesn't sneak up on them by surprise.

Some doctors are just plain lazy. Or so overworked that they don't give a crap about finding the real problem. Just give a pill and make the patient get out of the office ASAP. That's the way it goes - and I think this says a lot about the people becoming doctors these days. I blame the cost of the schooling, and the elitist mentality of the schools that don't let good people in. So, in the end, doctors are people who are in it for the money and not the love of medicine. Explains why they are so willing to prescribe for kickbacks.