[youeseh]

I have family that was on opium based pain killers after surgery. Their description was to the effect of, "that is some goood shit". Upon recovery, they stopped taking it. I suppose they no longer had holes in their life that needed filling with a pain killer, literally and figuratively, and knowing that made it easier to not become dependent.

[onetimemanytime]

Probably depends on the person, some might get addicted after a cigarette, others not even after 10 packs. But that person might get addicted to alcohol.

Either way, after an operation might as well suck it up a bit, like they did before Oxy and the likes came.