Spoken from the perspective of someone who has NEVER EVER ONCE experienced excruciating intractable chronic pain that is NOT caused by Cancer.  The level of your cluelessness boggles the mind.  You are so wrong, I don't know where to begin.  It is scary to think that you are someone a person struggling with pain might have to see, because you wear your bias like a badge.  You are just another one of the many "addiction counselors" trying to cash in on this media-fueled "epidemic."  So, apparently you think that taking away pain medication from Grannie is going to solve the problem of illicit Fentanyl from China?  You know what I wish for you and your ilk?  Just ONE day walking in my shoes.  Try having a condition that is the third worst pain in medicine, and then be told to "take aspirin" for it, and/or just suck it up.