Being in Canada, you're in better shape when it comes to pain killers. In the United States, doctors are afraid to prescribe the most effective pain killers, and when they do they tend not to prescribe it in an effective dosage strength. Doctors who do are arrested by the DEA SWAT boys all the time. A well intentioned doctor can very easily find himself "made an example of" with a stiff Federal prison sentence, i.e., twenty years or more behind bars for exercising his best medical judgment in trying to help a patient manage his pain. Bad situation here.
This is unfortunately very true. Many physicians, unless educated by personal experience, don't appreciate the debilitating affect chronic pain has especially when untreated or undertreated.
