With opioid addiction running ramped, doctors should be restricted to only prescribing this habit forming drug to patients that absolutely needs this habit forming drug for pain and should only be available to the patient for a short period of time. There are other medications on the market that a doctor can prescribe. They may not be as strong or work as fast as opioids but they want turn people into dependent drug addicts either. If you have never had to deal with a person that is drug addicted you have no idea what a family goes through.