What a mess the whole prescription-driven, health care community is.  Seems more and more it's about some medicinal cure rather than more natural approaches at managing one's issues.  Sure, for some there really isn't an option, but twice I've been told by my doc I'd have to be on life-long prescriptions, when all I ended up doing was an adjustment to my diet and the problems went away.

And these opioids are an absolute nightmare.