He eventually broke the addiction but said he was super grateful for opioids.

So, yeah... sometimes the source of the cause of pain is "multiple broken bones"

Imagine that you are on call, and you get paged for something, and there is no way to stop the page from going off even though you're aware of the issue and trying to resolve it.

You could also, if you'd like, imagine that your alarms were misconfigured and they were going off for literally no good reason, but there was no way to silence the mechanism that's paging you.

It's kind of like that.