Thank you for showing the other side of the coin.  I've lived with chronic pain my entire life, and I can honestly say that when I am being prescribed opiates I am at my most functional.  That being said, as annoying as it is,  and frustrating at times, that I sometimes face huge hurdles and judgement based simply on medication there are doctors that over prescribe.  

I think the world would benefit from more educated doctors and nurses in the realm of pain control and analgesics.  Prescribing more potent drugs than one needs can ruin a life, and the lives attached to theirs.  Those doctors need to be kept in check.  I do feel for his patients though, as finding a new doctor to prescribe can be very hard and agonizing.