I have to agree with this, after my injury in the Navy and in a wheel chair for 3 years and given morphine told I was never going to walk again, I said "wtf" I am going to walk again if its the last thing I do. Morphine, opiates, vicodin, percocet and it was endless for the last 10 years. The VA was feeding me all these drugs and not responding to my request for therapy, neurologist or a way to try to get better. Well, I fought this nonsense for 10 years and I will say this today I am now 7 years walking. I went to the VA 3 weeks ago to ask to get help to get off these medications because I did not feel that the pain I was experiencing needed narcotics, my doctor looked at me like I was nuts, he stated " really, you want to get off?" I said yes, however I know there are withdraws involved and is there anything that can help me wing this problem, he said, yes Suboxin, I said, Hell no I have heard of that and I want to do this without other narcotics. Well, I was on my own and my husbands support was all I had. I will say this, the experience I had was not pretty, insomnia, chills, spasms, cold sweats, stomach cramping, convulsing, as if an exorcism was taking place for 3 days straight, I prayed more than I ever prayed and asked my husband to just kill me I can't take this and all he could do was tell me it's almost over. My husband went through it all with me and did everything he could think of to help ease this process, I will say all his treatments from his medicine mmj alcohol rubs, mmj smoke, mmj tea, all help ease what I was going through in the day but night time was a whole different story. So where I am going with this is it is so easy to prescribe this shit to people who don't need it and it's a way to just get rid of people who the Doctors think just want this shit, I never would have taken this avenue if I thought there was another way. Today, I walk on my own, drug free and it's just me.