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No, they don't. Frankly I'm getting sick (no pun) of being treated like
a criminal when I go to fill Oxycodone or Hydrocodone. Some pharmacists
give you "the look", as if you're Pablo Escobar or something. I turned
in two Rx's for Oxy and Hydro at the same time from the same Dr. and the
pharmacist returned them to me saying "I don't feel comfortable filling
these". ****ing government (DEA) is all over MD's and pharmacists and
have them scared ****less over loss of license to jail time! Who
suffers? You and me, the MD's & pharmacists. The ****ing DEA needs to
do their job by keeping illicit drugs off the street (yeah right), they
fail at that so they go after legitimate people - patients and
practitioners.

Rx drug overdoses have taken over as the leading cause of death in some
places....in effect, your pain is less critical than the other guy's
life. Although I'm a retired nurse, and have taken care of a lot of
people in pain, I cannot imagine living in chronic pain. I've gotten
hurt a few times, including a fairly serious back strain, and have cared
for it myself....so far nothing that hot packs and rest won't cure )
The "****ing DEA" might save my neighbor's kid from an OD.

What do you estimate the percentage of "bad" doctors are, that write
scripts for controlled substances for profit? The "pill mill" doctors.
I'd say less than 1% of all licensed MD's and nurse practitioners. Yet

Oh, boy! Waaaaay, waaaaaaaaaay off.....5% are really bad, just selling
prescriptions with no medical care. 80% probably will "treat" by
prescribing any paying customer....if they can't sell wellness (I turned
down the last offer of colonoscopy since I'm much more likely to die of
lung cancer, stroke or heart attack) they will keep ya' coming back for
drugs, preferably non-narcotic. We (the US) are insanely overprescribed
and now they have grandpa by the short hairs with Cialis ads on the tube
every 10 seconds.

Florida started cracking down big time only two or three years ago when
the drug mills were causing traffic jams by out-of-state clients.

they have the remaining 99% under scrutiny and they are afraid to get on
the DEA's "radar". The chronic pain patent loses in the end. We get
under dosed, and 'fired' if there is a scintilla of reason to think they
will get audited because of me/you.

I don't know a family untouched by drug abuse, and a couple of the meth
users have the scars to show for it....one memorable news article a
while back was about three young kids who called family for help after
they hadn't seen their parents for two or three days....parents were
locked in the bedroom, in bed, dead of drug OD.