Tell me about it. I’m a disabled veteran and have had many many knee surgeries and a partial knee replacement on right knee, partial upgraded to full upgraded to rotating hinged joint replacement and all I got for pain meds after surgery was 20 hydros.

Before the whole opioid pressure epidemic the VA sent me 90 hydro 10s a month. They are uppers to me and if I took them as issued I wouldn’t sleep. I voluntarily had them cut it down to 60 a month. Then trump did his thing and I get called an addict by the VA. My refute was if I was an addict 60 wouldn’t last me a week unlike the month they were lasting me. But alas they took them away and I had to find alternative pain relief. Marijuana was it and when I popped positive on one of their annual physical drug test they tried to scold me like I was a freaking kid. I went off on them saying maybe if you morons actually treated patients we wouldn’t have to seek other alternatives.

The opioid epidemic wasn’t caused just by the manufacturers, doctors caused it as well.

I got my one and only shot in 2014. By 2018 I had to have a partial knee replacement on that knee. By October of this year that knee is now a full rotating hinged joint replacement.