Dr.s and Pharmacists are not absent. I guess you missed the story of the woman that was denied pain medicine by her pharmacist. My mother-in-law is another that requires pain meds. She's been on them 18 years due to back injury. She's almost 80 years old and rarely leaves the house because she hurts so badly. Her Dr.s are making it next to impossible to control the pain. She can't walk without a walker so there's no threat of her doing any breaking and entering to support "her habit".