While that’s correct prescribing drugs outside of their approved protocols can open you to malpractice, the problem with painkillers is that as far as I know there haven’t been any successful malpractice suits due to addiction in all honesty the best way to stop to over prescription of opioids isn’t to take the pharmaceuticals to court it’s to take the doctors.

A few cases that would set a precedence in pain management related addiction and doctors would be much less likely to prescribe them as freely as they do now.

I never understood this oddly American thing about “comfort” when undergoing medical procedures form dental procedures to surgery it seems like while the rest of the world is OK with some pain and discomfort in the US they’ll pump you up with pain killers and anestetics until you don’t feel a thing.

I got two root canals done with only a mild local anesthetic it wasn’t pleasant, but it wasn’t terrible and I see these videos of people coming out of the densit in the US high on I don’t know what barely knowing where they are and it’s simply mind boggling.